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.
1966 The Jimi Hendrix Experience records its first sessions in London, which produce “Hey Joe” and “Stone Free.”
1976 Led Zeppelin makes its first-ever U.S. TV appearance on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, where it performs “Black Dog” and “Dazed And Confused.”
1978 Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempts suicide while being held at the Rikers Island Detention Center in New York City, following the death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.
1990 Back In Black by AC/DC is certified 10-times platinum.
2001 R.E.M. plays a surprise show at Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe, which guitarist Peter Buck co-owns with his wife, Stephanie Dorgan.
2001 Incubus releases its third album, Morning View.
2004 The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paul McCartney, and Tony Bennett are among the performers at the first day of Neil Young‘s 18th annual Bridge School Benefit Concert.
2007 System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian releases his debut solo album, Elect the Dead.
2007 South Africa’s Seether issues its third full-length studio effort, Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces.
2007 Rob Zombie releases his first-ever concert album, simply titled Zombie – Live.
2013 Pearl Jam notches its fifth Number One record on the Billboard 200 album chart, as Lightning Bolt sells 166,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at the top of the survey. The band’s 10th studio effort joins 2009’s Backspacer, 1996’s No Code, 1994’s Vitalogy and 1993’s Vs.
Today’s Birthdays
- Robert Trujillo (bassist, Metallica) (54)
- “Weird” Al Yankovic (59)
- Emilia Clarke (actress, Game Of Thrones, Terminator: Genisys, Solo: A Star Wars Story) (32)
- Ryan Reynolds (actor, Blade: Trinity, The Amityville Horror, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Proposal, Green Lantern, Deadpool, Deadpool 2; formerly married to actress Scarlett Johansson, now married to Blake Lively) (42)
- Ang Lee (director, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution, Life Of Pi) (64)
- Sam Raimi (director, the Spider-Man movies, the Evil Dead movies, Drag Me To Hell, Oz The Great And Powerful) (59)
- Nancy Grace (CNN Headline News personality) (60, disputed)
- Doug Flutie (retired football star) (56)