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.
1993 Jimmy Page is inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk.
1993 Guns N’ Roses announces it will keep the Charles Manson-penned tune “Look At Your Game, Girl” on its album The Spaghetti Incident?. The band decides to keep it on after it learns that the royalties from the song will go to the son of one of Manson’s victims.
1994 Singer Liam Gallagher walks offstage during an Oasis concert in Glasgow, Scotland after losing his voice. Guitarist Noel Gallagher tries to carry on by himself, but is faced with boos and catcalls. The band reschedules the show and denies rumors that it is splitting up.
1999 Guns N’ Roses releases Live Era 1987 – 93.
2004 The White Stripes release their first DVD, a concert disc filmed in London called Under Blackpool Lights.
2005 British glam rockers the Darkness land on the Billboard 200 album chart at Number 58, selling just over 26,000 copies of their second album, titled One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back.
2005 Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson tells Billboard.com that the band is close to ending its highly publicized feud with its record label, Warner Music Group.
2005 Velvet Revolver plays a surprise show at a club called Body English in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
2005 Evanescence singer Amy Lee sues her former manager, Dennis Rider, accusing him of breach of fiduciary duty, professional negligence, and sexual assault and battery, among other claims. The complaint is filed a week after Rider sues Lee for unpaid management commissions.
2006 The Red Hot Chili Peppers lead the rock pack with six Grammy nods as the nominations for the 49th annual Grammy Awards are announced. Artists such as Buckcherry,Stone Sour, Death Cab For Cutie, Beck, the Raconteurs, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Wolfmother, System Of A Down, Snow Patrol and the Arctic Monkeys are named in various other categories.