This Week in Rock History: A Nose and a Toe

Rock music has a robust history, so every Wednesday, J.A. Bartlett of the Hits Just Keep On Comin' talks about the biggest and most intriguing moments from years past...

This week in 1974, Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band badly outkicked his coverage, marrying actress Faye Dunaway. The marriage lasted until 1979.

... in 1970, the Summer Festival for Peace was held at Shea Stadium in New York to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II. Little information exists about the show, which featured Johnny Winter, Paul Simon, the James Gang, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Steppenwolf, Poco, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, and others. Janis Joplin played the show, unannounced; it was one of her last live appearances before her death in September.

... in 1961, guitarist David "The Edge" Evans (pictured) of U2 was born in Barking, a London suburb. There are a couple of explanations for how he became "the Edge" -- the least believable is Bono's statement that it was the "insane love he had for walking on the edges of very high walls, bridges, or buildings." It's more likely that the nickname is based on his angular facial features; Evans himself has said, "It's the nose."

... in 1947, Ian Anderson was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He gave up the guitar as his main instrument in the mid 1960s after he decided he'd never be as good as Eric Clapton and took up the flute instead. Anderson's mid-60s band was christened Jethro Tull by a booking agent, although on the group's first single, it was misspelled "Jethro's Toe."

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