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.
1977 “White Riot” by the Clash, the band’s debut single, peaks at Number 38 on the U.K. pop chart.
1971, “It Don’t Come Easy” by Ringo Starr is released.
1991 Kiss drummer Eric Carr undergoes surgery to remove a tumor from his heart.
1992 Police confiscate a Van Halen shirt worn by Shawn Pierce outside a restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas. Pierce is cited and fined for public display of obscene material on clothing, which is punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a $100 fine. When Pierce appears in court on June 18th for sentencing, Van Halen pays his fine.
1994 Far Beyond Driven by Pantera enters the album chart at Number One.
1994 A crowd of between 5,000 and 7,000 people attend a candlelight vigil for Kurt Cobain, where a pre-recorded message from Courtney Love is played.
2001 Coldplay makes its full-fledged New York City concert debut in support of its debut album, Parachutes. The show, at the Roseland Ballroom, makes up for a gig in February that was aborted soon after it started because two members of the group were ill.
2002 Marilyn Manson releases a statement denying any wrongdoing in the drug-driving death of Jennifer Syme, who crashed her car after a party at his Los Angeles home the previous April. The statement is in response to a lawsuit filed by Syme’s mother.
2003 Stone Sour‘s self-titled debut album is certified gold.
2004 Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy slices his upper lip open with the top of his guitar in Atlanta, five songs into the band’s first U.S. show in four years. The rest of that night’s show and the next night’s gig are canceled.
2005 The Metallica movie Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster premieres on VH1.
2008 Theory Of A Deadman‘s third album, Scars and Souvenirs, debuts at Number 26 on the Billboard album chart, selling 21,000 copies in its first week of release. Meanwhile,R.E.M.‘s 14th studio album, Accelerate, lands at Number Two on the chart, moving 115,000 copies.
2013 Disturbed frontman David Draiman‘s first side project outside the band, Device, releases its self-titled debut album.
2013 The second half of Stone Sour‘s two-part concept album, House Of Gold And Bones, Part 2, arrives in stores.
2014 Chevelle‘s seventh studio album, La Gargola, sells 45,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at Number Three on the Billboard 200 album chart, the highest debut of the band’s career.