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.
1962 James Marshall Hendrix is honorably discharged from the U.S. Army after he breaks his ankle during a parachute jump. He later shortens his name to the more familiar Jimi Hendrix.
1969 Bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell announce that they have quit the Jimi Hendrix Experience, although Mitchell will later play with Hendrix.
1969 Ralph Nader warns that loud rock music threatens to produce a nation of hearing-impaired people.
1980 Women And Children First by Van Halen is certified platinum.
1991 Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose starts a riot at a show at the Riverport Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Ohio, when he dives into the audience to take a camera away from a fan.
1993 Pearl Jam opens for U2 in Verona, Italy.
1994 Courtney Love posts a message online slagging her father, Hank Harrison, for appearing on Geraldo to talk about Love and Kurt Cobain, even though Harrison never met his son-in-law.
2003 Evanescence‘s major label debut, Fallen, hits the double platinum mark in sales.
2004 Hoobastank shoots a second video for their single, “Same Direction,” featuring a cameo by legendary female rocker Joan Jett. The treatment, or script, for the new version is written by a fan as part of a contest.
2005 The Live 8 concerts take place in Philadelphia, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Johannesburg, and Toronto, featuring acts such as Coldplay, Linkin Park, the Dave Matthews Band, the Killers, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Snoop Dogg, U2, Crosby Stills and Nash, event organizer Bob Geldof and many others.
2006 Staind plays a concert at the Marine Corps base in Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii for U.S. troops returning from and heading to the Middle East.
2007 The White Stripes board a city transit bus in the Canadian city of Winnipeg and perform two songs for a small group of fans who had been tipped off to the surprise show through a message board.
2008 Coldplay‘s latest album, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, tops the Billboard album chart for the second straight week, selling another 249,000 copies. Meanwhile, Motley Crue‘s first new album in eight years, Saints of Los Angeles, enters at Number Four with sales of 99,000 copies and Shinedown‘s The Sound of Madness lands at Number Eight with sales of 50,000
2011 Soundgarden kicks off its first full-fledged tour in 14 years in Toronto, after playing only a handful of dates since reuniting in early 2010.
Today’s Birthdays
- Lindsay Lohan (actress, Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, Herbie: Fully Loaded, A Prairie Home Companion, I Know Who Killed Me, Machete) (32)
- Rocky Gray (drummer, Evanescence, We Are The Fallen) (44)
- Larry David (actor-writer, Curb Your Enthusiasm; co-creator of Seinfeld) (71)
- Yancy Butler (actress, Witchblade) (48)
- Jerry Hall (model-actress, Urban Cowboy, Batman, Freejack; former wife of Mick Jagger) (62)
- Dave Parsons (ex-bassist, Bush) (53)
- Richard Petty (Auto racing legend) (81)