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.
1973 The Led Zeppelin album Houses Of The Holy is released.
1986 Over 6,000 radio stations of all formats play “We Are The World” simultaneously at 10:15 A.M. ET to raise millions of dollars for African famine relief.
1992 “Right Now” by Van Halen peaks at Number 55 on the pop chart.
1994 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain enters the Exodus Recovery Center in Marina Del Rey, California.
1994 Miami riot police are called in when 2,000 people without tickets push through fences to get into a Pearl Jam concert, throwing rocks and bottles as they go. Five people are injured and four arrested.
2000 Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers is certified triple platinum.
2000 Jimmy Page is awarded substantial damages resulting from a libel case against the U.K.’s Ministry Magazine, which in 1999 reported that Page, wearing “satanic robes,” stood over John Bonham‘s body while the former Led Zeppelin drummer was choking on his own vomit after a drinking binge.
2005 U2 kicks off their Vertigo world tour at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego.
2006 Rob Zombie issues his third solo album, titled Educated Horses.