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.

1970 Janis Joplin dies at age 27 from a drug overdose.

1975 Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here hits Number One on both the U.S. and U.K. album charts.

1996 Edward and Alex Van Halen confirm that former Extreme vocalist Gary Cherone is the new lead singer in Van Halen. He lasts for one album.

2000 Approximately 150,000 copies of Radiohead‘s new Kid A album that were shipped throughout Europe are recalled due to a mastering error.

2004 John Lennon‘s murderer, Mark David Chapman, faces the New York State parole board for the third time.

2005 Shinedown releases its second album, Us And Them.

2005 Nickelback issues its fifth studio album, All The Right Reasons.

And that’s what happened today in Rock.

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