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.
1978 The Kiss album Double Platinum is released.
1992 Soundgarden‘s show in Bristol, England, is marked by protests from a local religious group over the artwork for their single “Jesus Christ Pose.”
1994 “No Excuses” by Alice In Chains tops the rock chart for the second straight week.
1994 Worried about her husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love hires a detective to find him. Their house in Seattle is staked out, but Kurt is nowhere to be seen.
1996 The Kiss video Unplugged hits Number One on the video chart.
1999 The Black Crowes play a concert in Knoxville, Tennessee. A year later, Joshua Harmon, a teenager who had been sitting in the second row at the concert, files a $385,000 lawsuit against the band, their promoter, the theatre, and the sound company, claiming he has suffered “significant hearing loss.”
2001 Fuel‘s Something Like Human is certified platinum.
2002 The tribute album This Is Where I Belong: The Songs Of Ray Davies & The Kinks is released. It features performances from acts including Queens Of The Stone Age, Matthew Sweet, and Cracker.
2005 U2 vocalist Bono pays tribute to the late Pope John Paul II during the band’s concert in Anaheim, California, saying, “I met the Holy Father and I was so taken by this showman, even if I didn’t agree with everything he said.”
2006 Courtney Love closes a deal with Primary Wave Music Publishing to sell off a portion of the rights to the Nirvana catalog. Love sells 25 percent of her stake in the catalog that she inherited following the 1994 death of her husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
2006 Nickelback wins two Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys, landing Best Rock Album for 2005’s All The Right Reasons and Best Group.
2008 Former Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland issues a statement following his dismissal from the group, in which he says, “The truth of the matter is that the band had not gotten along on multiple levels for some time.”