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.
1980 Yoko Ono calls for a 10-minute silent vigil around the world at 2:00 P.M. ET for John Lennon, who was shot and killed in front of the couple’s New York City apartment building six days earlier.
1982 Kiss drummer Eric Carr‘s makeup design is registered with the United States Patent & Trademark Office.
2000 Weezer plays a rare surprise gig at a tiny Los Angeles club under the name Goat Punishment.
2003 Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry joins Kiss on stage for a version of their 1974 song “Strutter” at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Perry wasn’t wearing any Kiss makeup, but he did have on a pair of Kiss singer-guitarist Paul Stanley‘s platform boots for the occasion.
2004 Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery leaves the band’s tour due to “personal issues.” The group decides to continue and finish the tour. Lowery returns to the band in 2008.
2004 The members of Linkin Park sign copies of their new book, From The Inside: Linkin Park’s Meteora, at Borders Books in downtown Manhattan.
2004 A public memorial for Damageplan/Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, shot to death onstage six days earlier, is held at the Arlington Convention Center in Arlington, Texas.
2005 Korn‘s seventh studio album, See You On The Other Side, debuts on the Billboard Top 200 at Number Three, with first week sales of nearly 221,000 copies.
2006 U2 frontman Bono meets with incoming Democratic Congressional leaders in Washington D.C., including new Senate majority leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the HouseNancy Pelosi, to seek assurances that $1 billion in planned U.S. spending to fight AIDS and malaria in Africa will not be lost in 2007 budget freezes.
2006 Guns N’ Roses frontman W. Axl Rose issues an open letter to the band’s fans in which he sets March 6th, 2007 as a tentative release date for the group’s long-delayed new album Chinese Democracy. The record fails to materialize on that date.
2009 Website Music Radar confirms that guitarist John Frusciante has left the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the second time, and has been replaced by guitar player Josh Klinghoffer.
2015 Coldplay‘s seventh studio effort, A Head Full Of Dreams, debuts at Number Two on the Billboard 200 album chart, selling 210,000 copies in its first week of release. It is blocked from the top spot by the monster new Adele record.
And that’s what happened today in Rock ‘N’ Roll…
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