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.
1973 John Lennon sues the U.S. government in an effort to learn if the FBI is tapping his phone.
1992 Automatic For The People by R.E.M. enters the album chart at its peak position of Number Two.
1997 U2‘s Achtung Baby album is certified platinum eight times over by the RIAA.
2003 In a statement, Metallica cites “physical ailments and mental exhaustion” as the reasons for canceling a long-awaited tour of South America.
2004 Courtney Love returns to the stage for the first time in months when about 400 people turn out to see Love and her all-female band, the Chelsea, perform at a San Diego rock club.
2005 Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age are forced to cancel their concert in Sunrise, Florida, which is hit heavily by Hurricane Wilma.
2006 My Chemical Romance releases its third album, a concept effort called The Black Parade.
2007 Jimmy Eat World‘s new album, Chase This Light, debuts at Number Five on the Billboard 200 album chart, selling 62,000 copies in its first week of release.
2017 Marilyn Manson fires longtime bassist Jeordie White, who performs under the name Twiggy Ramirez, days after White is accused of rape by his former girlfriend, Jessicka Addams of the band Jack Off Jill.
2017 Metallica plays to 22,211 people at the O2 Arena in London, England, breaking the previous record of 21,000 set by Muse in 2016.
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