Join Gunner as he goes over all the important Rock dates in history weekdays at 3:50. Relive all the chart-topping moments, milestones, bad breakups and first times again.
There will be no hall pass today. Here’s what happened today in Rock N’ Roll.
1988, “Devil Inside” by INXS peaks at Number Two on the pop chart, where it stays for two weeks.
1996 Kiss officially announces their reunion tour — with all four original members, makeup, costumes, and staging — at a press conference on the U.S.S. Intrepid in New York City.
1996 Soundgarden‘s Badmotorfinger album is certified double platinum.
1997 Bush‘s debut album, Sixteen Stone, is certified six times platinum for sales of over six million copies
2002 David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar announce their co-headlining tour in Los Angeles.
2003 Evanescence and their record label pull all copies of the band’s major-label debut, Fallen, out of Christian music stores after the band distances themselves from the Christian music scene in an Entertainment Weekly interview.
2003 Godsmack‘s third album, Faceless, debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200, selling over 266,000 copies in its first week of release.
2009 Theory Of A Deadman‘s third album, Scars & Souvenirs, is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of more than half a million copies.
2014 AC/DC issues a statement confirming that founding guitarist Malcolm Young is stepping away from the band due to illness. But the statement refutes rumors that the group is breaking up, saying that the group will “continue to make music.”