Join Gunner has 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.
1967 Pink Floyd records its first single, “Arnold Layne.”
1991 It’s announced that the January 7 death of Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark was due to an accidental drug overdose.
1992 The Recording Industry Association of America announces that starting in 1993, CDs will be sold only in jewel cases, instead of cardboard longboxes, due to environmental concerns.
1995 Nirvana‘s first album, Bleach, is certified platinum.
1995 Collective Soul releases its self-titled second album.
1996 Green Day‘s Insomniac album is certified double platinum.
1998 Tommy Lee is released from jail on $500,000 bail after pleading innocent to beating wife Pamela Anderson Lee.
2001 Cheap Trick releases a 25th anniversary double live CD called Silver, featuring guest appearances from former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash, Everclear frontman Art Alexakis, and Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan.
2001 The Dave Matthews Band releases its fourth album, Everyday.
2001 Kiss drummer Eric Singer makes his first appearance in Peter Criss‘s cat makeup on the Australian TV show Today.
2001 Pearl Jam simultaneously releases 23 live discs recorded on the first leg of their 2000 North American tour.
2002 Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst declines to appear in person, but offers to testify via video conference, in the Australian inquest into the death of a fan during the band’s performance at 2001’s Big Day Out Festival.
2002 At the Grammy Awards, U2 wins Record Of The Year for “Walk On,” Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for “Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of,” Best Rock Album for All That You Can’t Leave Behind, and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for “Elevation.”
2002 The diaries and notebooks of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain are purchased by Riverhead, a division of Penguin Putnam, for $4 million, for publication later in the year.
2003 Former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum, and rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin announce that they are assembling a new band and looking for a new singer. The project later evolves into Velvet Revolver, minus Stradlin.
2003 Limp Bizkit leader Fred Durst announces his intentions to organize a benefit for the victims of the Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured 200 more. The benefit never materializes.
2005 Former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch speaks to nearly 10,000 people at the Valley Bible Fellowship in Bakersfield, California, about his departure from the band after 13 years to embrace Christianity.