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.
1965, “Ticket To Ride” by the Beatles hits Number One on the pop chart.
1971, Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones hits Number One on the album chart, where it stays for four weeks.
1987 The Cure releases Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
2001 The Motley Crue book The Dirt: Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band is published.
2001 Staind releases its second major label album, Break The Cycle.
2002 Alien Ant Farm‘s tour bus crashes with a truck on a highway in Spain, killing their bus driver and injuring everyone in the band and crew. Singer Dryden Mitchell will undergo months of rehab for a broken neck.
2003 Marilyn Manson‘s The Golden Age Of Grotesque debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200, selling just under 120,000 copies in its first week of release.
2005 The Darkness announce that they’ve parted ways with bassist Frankie Poullain due to “musical differences.”
2006 U2 singer Bono joins a local band in a 1,000-year-old chant at a restaurant on the banks of the Niger River in the city of Bamako, which is the capital of the West African nation Mali.
2006 Arctic Monkeys releases a statement announcing that bassist Andy Nicholson will sit out the British band’s upcoming North American tour due to “fatigue.” Nicholson never returns to the group and is replaced by Nick O’Malley.
2006 Audioslave cancels their entire European summer tour, ostensibly because their third album, Revelations, won’t be out until the fall. The band never tours again.
2007 Ozzy Osbourne releases his first new solo album in six years, Black Rain.
2007 The Smashing Pumpkins play a hefty 29 songs and unveil their new lineup in Paris, France, as the band returns to the stage for its first live performance since December 2nd, 2000.
2014 Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and his lookalike, actor Will Ferrell, hold their long-awaited drum-off on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. The pair show up on the program in matching black leather jackets, Kiss T-shirts, sneakers and blue baseball caps worn backwards, each speaking as the other person.
Today’s Birthdays
Morrissey (a.k.a. Stephen Patrick Morrissey, singer, former frontman, the Smiths) (59)
Hilton Valentine (guitarist, the Animals) (75)