This Day in Rock – January 10

Posted By: January 10, 2019 @ 5:19 pm Afternoons, Music News, Rock History

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.

ON THIS DAY:
1904 Actor Ray Bolger (The Wizard Of Oz‘s Scarecrow) is born. He dies in 1987.
1908 Actor Bernard Lee, who played 007’s boss “M” in the first 11 James Bond movies, is born. He dies in 1981.
1917 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody dies at age 70.
1949 Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace is born. She dies in 2002.
1956 Elvis Presley makes his first recordings for RCA — a cover of Ray Charles‘s “I Got A Woman,” followed by a new song called “Heartbreak Hotel.”
1972 The longest winning streak in NBA history ends when the Milwaukee Bucks beat the L.A. Lakers 120-104. The Lakers had won 33 straight games.
1978 Founding 3 Doors Down guitarist Matt Roberts is born. He dies in August 2016 of a prescription drug overdose.
1983 Fraggle Rock, created by Muppets mastermind Jim Henson, debuts on HBO.
1992 The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, starring Annabella Sciorra and Rebecca De Mornay, opens nationwide.
1997 Dow Corning agrees to paying $295 billion to settle breast implant suits.
1997 The People vs. Larry Flynt, starring Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love, opens nationwide after a limited engagement run the month prior.
1999 The Sopranos debuts on HBO.
2000 Blink-182‘s Enema Of The State is certified triple platinum.
2000 America Online announces its intent to buy Time Warner for $162 billion.
2000 Megadeth confirms the exit of guitarist Marty Friedman.
2001 Linkin Park‘s debut album, Hybrid Theory, is certified platinum after just nine weeks of release.
2001 Fifty Christians stand outside the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California, to pray in protest of the Marilyn Manson show occurring at the venue that night.
2002 Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale and No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani publicly announce their engagement.
2002 Limp Bizkit kicks off its “search” for a new lead guitarist to replace the departed Wes Borland at the Guitar Center in Fresno, California. Players who audition must sign the rights to any riffs they play over to Limp Bizkit, who ultimately end up choosing Mike Smith, formerly of the band Snot.
2002 Creed‘s third album, Weathered, notches its seventh consecutive week at Number One on the Billboard 200 album chart.
2005 Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand are nominated for five Brit Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys, including Best British Group, Best British Album, Best British Rock Act, Best British Live Act, and British Breakthrough Act.
2005 Courtney Love is awarded custody of her 12-year-old daughter Frances Bean Cobain after a 15-month legal battle with the Los Angeles County Department Of Children And Family Services and Frances’s grandmother Wendy O’Connor. The child was taken from her mother following Love’s October 2003 drug arrests.
2006 The White Stripes postpone Japanese tour dates after Jack White contracts an “acute vocal cord problem” which forces him to remain silent for two weeks.
2006 Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and his wife Jordyn Blum confirm through a publicist that they are expecting their first child that March.
2012 Van Halen releases “Tattoo,” the first single and video from its first album with original singer David Lee Roth in 28 years, A Different Kind Of Truth.
2015 Dave Grohl celebrates his 46th birthday in epic fashion as he and his band Foo Fighters perform a three-and-a-half hour show at the Forum in Los Angeles and are joined by guests such as Slash, Van Halen‘s David Lee Roth, Paul Stanley of Kiss and Alice Cooper.
2018 Former Motorhead and Fastway guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke passes away after a battle with pneumonia at the age of 67. Clarke, a member of Motorhead from 1976 until 1982, was not an original member of the group but one-third of its classic lineup, which also included late drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor and late singer/bassist Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Brent Smith (singer-guitarist, Shinedown) (41)
Curt Kirkwood (singer-guitarist, the Meat Puppets) (60)
George Foreman (grill pitchman and former world heavyweight boxing champion) (70)
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Rod Stewart (singer) (74)
Lyle Menendez (brother of Eric Menendez; accused of killing their parents) (51)
Michael Schenker (guitarist, the Scorpions, UFO, the Michael Schenker Group) (64)
Jared Kushner (real estate investor, newspaper publisher, senior advisor to father-in-law Donald Trump) (38)