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.
1978 Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious films his version of Paul Anka‘s “My Way” in Paris. The clip turns up in the film The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle.
1994 The Pink Floyd album The Division Bell enters the U.S. album chart at Number One, where it stays for four weeks.
1994 Jimmy Page joins Robert Plant onstage during Plant’s set at a tribute concert for British blues musician Alexis Korner, fueling rumors of a Led Zeppelin reunion. Later that year, Page and Plant will reunite as a duo, without John Paul Jones.
1994 Autopsy reports for Kurt Cobain are made public and show that the level of heroin in his system was twice the amount that could prove fatal.
2001 R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck is released on bail after facing charges in a London court over an alleged air rage incident that occurred two days earlier in the first-class section of a flight from Seattle to London. He is eventually acquitted of all charges.
2003 Jane’s Addiction signs a deal with Capitol Records to release their first album of all-new material in 13 years.
2004 The White Stripes are big winners at the 2004 Detroit Music Awards, held at the State Theatre in Detroit. They win Outstanding National Major Label Album for 2003’sElephant, and Outstanding National Single for “Seven Nation Army.”
2006 The heavily rumored Smashing Pumpkins reunion is made official by a post on the band’s website that states, “The Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs for their upcoming album, their first since 2000.”
2008 Apocalyptica‘s new album, Worlds Collide, debuts at Number 59 on the Billboard album chart, selling 11,000 copies in its first week of release.
2008 The Smashing Pumpkins are inducted into the Hollywood RockWalk, with frontman Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin placing their hands in cement outside the Guitar Center in Hollywood.
2008 The original lineup of Jane’s Addiction reunites for the first time in 17 years to perform four songs at the first-ever U.S. NME Awards, held at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.
2014 Former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan gives his first U.S. performance in 20 years with the band at the Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles.
Today’s Birthdays
- Valerie Bertinelli (actress, One Day At A Time, Touched By An Angel; former wife of Edward Van Halen, mother of Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen) (58)
- Carlos Dengler (ex-bassist, Interpol) (44)
- Stan Frazier (drums, Sugar Ray) (50)
- Michael Moore (documentary filmmaker, Bowling For Columbine, Fahrenheit 911) (64)