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.
1970 Jim Morrison asks the audience at a Doors concert if they would like to see his “private parts.” Keyboardist Ray Manzarek gets Morrison off the stage before he can expose himself.
1976 “Dream On” by Aerosmith peaks at Number Six on the pop chart, almost three years after its release.
1980 The Cure kicks off their first U.S. tour in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
1994, Over 7,000 people attend a public memorial service in Seattle for Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain.
2003 The White Stripes‘ fourth album, Elephant, debuts at Number Six on the Billboard 200 album chart.
2007 Hellyeah releases its self-titled debut disc, featuring a new all-star collaboration between members of Pantera, Mudvayne and Nothingface.
2007 The lineups and locations of the U.S. and U.K. Live Earth concerts are announced, with the Smashing Pumpkins, the Police, Fall Out Boy and the Dave Matthews Band leading a Stateside bill at New Jersey’s Giants Stadium that also includes A.F.I., Akon, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Faith Hill, John Mayer, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Melissa Etheridge, Rihanna, Roger Waters and Tim McGraw. The U.K. show announced for Wembley Stadium in London features the Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Bloc Party, Corinne Bailey Rae, Duran Duran, Foo Fighters, Genesis, James Blunt, John Legend, Keane, Madonna, Paolo Nutini, Razorlight, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snow Patrol.
2008 Green Day confirms in an email to MTV News that, as rumored for months, they are the Foxboro Hot Tubs, the mysterious garage rock group who happens to sound a lot like the punk trio.
2012 Halestorm releases its second album, The Strange Case Of . . .
2014 Nirvana and Kiss are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Brooklyn, New York, along with Linda Ronstadt, Hall & Oates, Cat Stevens, the E Street Band and others. The surviving members of Nirvana perform with several different women on lead vocals, including Joan Jett and Lorde.