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 The Doors‘ final show with Jim Morrison takes place in New Orleans.
1973 Queen begins its first tour of the U.K. at Leeds Town Hall in Yorkshire, opening for Mott The Hoople.
1988 Rattle And Hum by U2 hits Number One on the album chart, where it stays for six weeks.
1999 Sammy Hagar cuts off his hair on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, and he donates the hair to the Locks Of Love children’s charity, which makes hairpieces for children who experience hair loss during medical treatments.
2001 R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck goes on trial in London over an “air rage” incident on a British Airways flight from the U.S. to the U.K. He is eventually cleared of the charges.
2002 Riot Act by Pearl Jam is released.
2002 The Metallica DVD Live Sh*t: Binge And Purge is released.
2003 Former Hole singer Courtney Love pleads innocent to two felony drug possession charges in Beverly Hills Municipal Court. Love, who is charged with possessing two prescription painkillers, Vicodin and OxyContin, tells reporters that the charges are “retarded.”
2008 A painting owned by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, by late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, sells for $12 million at an auction held by Christie’s in New York.
Today’s Birthdays
- Neil Young (73)
- Anne Hathaway (actress, the Princess Diaries movies, Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, Rachel Getting Married, The Dark Knight Rises, Les Miserables, Interstellar, Ocean’s Eight) (36)
- Ryan Gosling (actor, The Notebook, Blue Valentine, Drive, The Ides Of March, Blade Runner 2049, First Man) (38)
- Al Michaels (sportscaster) (74)
- Sammy Sosa (Major League baseball player; hit 66 home runs in 1998 with the Chicago Cubs, only Major League player to hit more than 60 homers in three seasons) (50)
- David Ellefson (bassist, Megadeth) (54)
- Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser (singer-lead guitarist, Blue Oyster Cult) (71)
- Wallace Shawn (actor, The Princess Bride, Clueless) (75)
- Harvey Stephens (actor; played Damien in the original The Omen) (48)
- Tonya Harding (former figure skater who was involved in a scandal around injuring competitor Nancy Kerrigan) (48)