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 The Beatles make their first TV appearance, performing “Love Me Do” and “Some Other Guy” on the People And Places show in the U.K.
1969 Led Zeppelin kicks off a U.S. tour at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1987 R.E.M.‘s “The One I Love” enters the Top 40.
1989 Hot In The Shade by Kiss is released.
1992 Dirt by Alice In Chains enters the Billboard album chart.
1996 Marilyn Manson‘s Antichrist Superstar enters the Billboard album chart at Number Three.
2000 Limp Bizkit releases its third album, Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water.
2000 Iommi by Tony Iommi is released, featuring guest vocals from System Of A Down‘s Serj Tankian, Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl, and others.
2001 Ozzy Osbourne does an in-store autograph session at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, New Jersey.
2002 U2 is honored in the Republic Of Ireland with an official Irish Rock Legends postage stamp.
2004 Jet wins six Australian Recording Industry Association Awards (ARIAs), taking home prizes for Album Of The Year, Single Of The Year, Best Group, Breakthrough Artist Album, Breakthrough Artist Single, and Best Rock Album.
2005 The White Stripes make their first appearance as guests of interviewer Charlie Rose on PBS’ The Charlie Rose Show.
2005 Disturbed is forced to cancel the last seven dates of its European tour after singer David Draiman is diagnosed with severe inflammation of the vocal cords.
2005 Disturbed is forced to cancel the last seven dates of its European tour after singer David Draiman is diagnosed with severe inflammation of the vocal cords.
2006 U2 singer Bono testifies in an Irish court against the band’s former stylist, Lola Cashman, whom the band alleges stole and tried to sell group memorabilia. Bono gives Cashman’s work as a stylist high marks but says she took “unprofessional” advantage of her time working for the band.
2007 New albums from Alter Bridge and Puddle Of Mudd both debut on the Billboard 200 album chart. Alter Bridge’s sophomore effort, Blackbird, sells 47,000 copies to debut at Number 13, while Puddle Of Mudd’s third offering, Famous, moves 31,000 copies to arrive at Number 27.
2014 A new documentary series called Sonic Highways, directed by Dave Grohl and about the making of the Foo Fighters album of the same name, debuts on HBO.
Today’s Birthdays
- Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers; rap artist) (46)
- Felicity Jones (actress, Like Crazy, Brideshead Revisited, Breathe In, The Theory Of Everything, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, On The Basis Of Sex) (35)
- Mike Judge (cartoonist; creator of Beavis And Butthead, King Of The Hill, director of Office Space, Extract) (56)
- Norm MacDonald (actor-comedian, Saturday Night Live) (55)
- George Wendt (actor, Cheers, Spice World, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch) (70)
- Margot Kidder (actress, the Superman movies, The Amityville Horror) (69)
- Michael McKean (actor, Laverne & Shirley‘s Lenny, This Is Spinal Tap, Saturday Night Live, Airheads, Best In Show, Auto Focus) (71)
- Dr. Mae C. Jemison (first African-American woman in space) (62)