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There will be no hall pass today. Here’s what happened today in Rock N’ Roll.
1956 Guitarist Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne‘s Blizzard Of Ozz) is born. He dies in 1982 in a small plane crash.
1970 The Rolling Stones movie Gimme Shelter, documenting the events leading up to and including the Altamont concert in 1969, opens.
1978 Sid Vicious, out on bail from the Riker’s Island Detention Center in New York City after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, smashes glass in the face of Patti Smith‘s brother Todd during an altercation at a New York rock club.
1979 Highway To Hell by AC/DC, its last album with singer Bon Scott, is certified gold.
1980 U2 makes its American debut at the Ritz in New York City.
1994 Pearl Jam‘s third album, Vitalogy, is released on CD and cassette, two weeks after appearing on vinyl.
1997 Reload by Metallica enters the album chart at Number One.
2000 U2 rocks New York City’s tiny Irving Plaza for an intimate show containing covers of the Ramones‘ “I Remember You” and the Who‘s “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
2001 Staind‘s second major label album, Break The Cycle, reaches the four million mark in sales.
2003 The Los Angeles Times reports that Ozzy Osbourne claims he was “over-prescribed a host of powerful anti-psychotic and tranquilizing drugs” by Beverly Hills physician David Kipper, “leading to a 42-pill-per-day habit that also accounted for his perplexing behavior on the hit TV series The Osbournes.
2005 Franz Ferdinand releases its first, self-titled DVD.
2005 Korn releases its seventh studio album, See You On The Other Side. It’s the band’s first as a four-piece and first to use outside songwriting team the Matrix.
2005 Green Day wins six prizes at the Billboard Music Awards, including Album of the Year for American Idiot.
2006 Incubus earns the first Number One debut of its career with its sixth studio album, Light Grenades. The CD lands in the Billboard album chart’s top spot with first-week sales of 165,000 copies.
2007 The 50th annual Grammy Awards nominees are announced. Foo Fighters leads the list of rock nominees with five, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song. Other rock artists nominated in various categories include the White Stripes, Paramore, Daughtry, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Ozzy Osbourne and more.
2009 Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is hospitalized in upstate New York after his tour bus crashes. Cuomo’s wife and baby daughter, who are also on board, are not hurt, but Cuomo sustains three broken ribs, an injury to his lower leg and internal injuries.
2009 Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is hospitalized in upstate New York after his tour bus crashes. Cuomo’s wife and baby daughter, who are also on board, are not hurt, but Cuomo sustains three broken ribs, an injury to his lower leg and internal injuries.