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.
1964, American Bandstand airs a taped interview with the Beatles.
1982 The Cure kicks off its Fourteen Explicit Moments tour, in support of its album Pornography.
1993 David Lee Roth is arrested in New York City for purchasing $10 worth of marijuana.
2000 The Smashing Pumpkins album MACHINA/The Machines Of God is certified gold.
2002 U2 singer Bono and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin back international agency Oxfam’s Big Noise campaign to point out corruption in trade agreements with Third World nations.
2005 Queens Of The Stone Age ends their first North American tour of 2005 in Los Angeles with returning singer Mark Lanegan and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons joining the band onstage.
2006 A new commercial for Coca-Cola featuring a theme song written and performed by White Stripes frontman Jack White leaks online
2007 Hellyeah‘s self-titled debut album lands at Number Nine on the Billboard album chart, selling 45,000 copies in its first week of release.
2015 Green Day is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside fellow 2015 inductees Ringo Starr, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Lou Reed, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Bill Withers, the “5” Royales and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Todays Birthdays
Mark Tremonti (guitarist, Creed, Alter Bridge) (44)
Greg Eklund (former drummer, Everclear) (48)