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.
1987 The Smiths release their final album, Strangeways, Here We Come.
1991 Metallica and AC/DC headline a free concert just outside Moscow.
1999 Creed releases its second album, Human Clay.
2004 The Ramones DVD Ramones Raw is released.
2004 Marilyn Manson releases a greatest hits collection called Lest We Forget.
2005 Pearl Jam opens for the Rolling Stones at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.
2005 Disturbed debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 239,000 copies for its third album, Ten Thousand Fists.
2006 Audioslave and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello is arrested in Los Angeles during a march for immigrant hotel workers’ rights. Morello spends the night in jail and is released the next morning on $5,000 bail.
2006 Weezer files a lawsuit against the Miller Brewing Company, alleging that the beer manufacturer used the band’s name without its permission in several ads that ran in Rolling Stone magazine in 2004.
2010 Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong makes his Broadway debut as he begins a one-week stint in the role of “St. Jimmy” in the Broadway production of Green Day’s punk opera American Idiot.
Today’s Birthdays
- Ginger Fish (a.k.a. Kenny Wilson; drummer, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) (52)
- George Lynch (former guitarist, Dokken) (64)
- Hilary Duff (actress, Agent Cody Banks, The Lizzie McGuire Movie) (31)
- Naomi Watts (actress, Mulholland Dr., The Ring, King Kong, Funny Games, The International, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Fair Game, Insurgent) (50)
- Dita Von Teese (burlesque dancer and model; former wife of Marilyn Manson) (46)
- Mira Sorvino (actress, Mighty Aphrodite, Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion, Mimic, The Replacement Killers; daughter of Paul Sorvino) (51)
- Jeffrey Jones (actor, Amadeus, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ed Wood, The Devil’s Advocate, Deadwood) (72)
- Janeane Garofalo (comedienne-actress-radio host, The Larry Sanders Show, Reality Bites, The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle) (54)
- Moon Unit Zappa (singer-actress, “Valley Girl”; daughter of Frank Zappa) (51)
- Brigitte Bardot (French actress, And God Created Woman) (84)