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.
1948 Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham is born. He dies in 1980.
1976 The Who enters The Guinness Book Of World Records by playing the loudest concert in history, with a total output of 76,000 watts at 120 decibels.
1989 Guns N’ Roses is named Artist Of The Year at the first International Rock Awards, held in New York City and broadcast live on ABC.
2000 Oasis singer Liam Gallagher performs live for the first time in years without his brother, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher, in Milan, Italy, fueling rumors of a band split.
2001 Staind‘s Break The Cycle debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 716,003 copies.
2002 The self-titled debut from Boxcar Racer, the side band of Blink-182 guitarist-vocalist Tom Delonge and drummer Travis Barker, lands at Number 12 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its first week of release.
2006 The first annual VH1 Rock Honors, featuring Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Rob Zombie and others paying tribute to rock legends Kiss, Judas Priest, Queen and Def Leppardpremieres on VH1.
2006 Angels And Airwaves enters the Billboard album chart at Number Four with its debut album, We Don’t Need To Whisper. The new project from ex-Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge sells 127,000 copies in its first week of release.
2006 Pearl Jam tapes an episode of VH1’s Storytellers at a small club in New York City, taking questions from the audience and telling the stories behind its songs as it performs new tracks and old hits before a packed crowd.
2016 Prophets Of Rage, the new supergroup featuring the instrumental members of Rage Against The Machine alongside rappers Chuck D. from Public Enemy and B-Real from Cypress Hill, makes its live debut at the Whisky-A-Go-Go in Hollywood.
Today’s Birthdays
Andy Hurley (drummer, Fall Out Boy) (38)