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.
1977 Ozzy Osbourne quits Black Sabbath, only to rejoin a few weeks later. He eventually quits again and launches a successful solo career.
1993 Nirvana‘s Nevermind is certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA.
1994 Promised Land by Queensryche enters the album chart at its peak position of Number Three.
1999 Van Halen announces that Gary Cherone is no longer the lead singer of the band. The official statement calls the move “both mutual and amicable,” and guitarist Edward Van Halen says, “Gary is a brother and he and I will continue to have a personal and musical relationship.”
2003 Late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and his widow, singer and actress Courtney Love, are named the “Hottest Rock ‘N’ Roll Couple Of All Time” by Blender magazine.
2007 Linkin Park‘s Music For Relief organization teams kicks off an eBay auction to raise funds for recovery and reforesting efforts in the Southern California areas devastated by that fall’s wildfires.
2017 Kid Rock and Staind frontman Aaron Lewis both sever ties with publicist Kirt Webster, following country singer Austin Cody‘s accusation of sexual assault against Webster.
2017 Marilyn Manson returns to the stage for the first time since a stage prop fell on him and broke his leg a month earlier at a show in New York City. The wheelchair-bound Manson’s performance at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest in San Bernardino, California immediately creates controversy when he points a fake assault rifle at the crowd, just hours after a shooting rampage in Texas leaves 26 dead.
Today’s Birthdays
- Jonny Greenwood (guitarist, Radiohead) (47)
- Ryan Adams (singer-songwriter) (44)
- Robert Patrick (actor, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The X-Files, Walk The Line; brother of Filter frontman Richard Patrick) (60)
- Famke Janssen (actress-model, Lord Of Illusions, Golden Eye, House On Haunted Hill, the X-Men movies) (53)
- Tatum O’Neal (actress, Paper Moon, The Bad News Bears, Little Darlings; daughter of Ryan O’Neal; former wife of John McEnroe) (55)
- Kevin Jonas (musician, Jonas Brothers) (30)
- Art Garfunkel (singer, Simon & Garfunkel) (77)
- Andrea McArdle (actress, star of the original Annie on Broadway) (55)
- Bill Walton (NBA Hall of Famer) (66)
- Bryan Adams (Canadian rock star) (59)
- Tilda Swinton (actress, Constantine, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doctor Strange, Suspiria) (58)
- Sam Rockwell (actor, Galaxy Quest, Charlie’s Angels, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Moon, Iron Man 2, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) (50)
- Johnny Damon (former New York Yankees left fielder) (45)