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.
1969 “Good Times Bad Times” by Led Zeppelin peaks at Number 80 on the pop chart.
1980 Singer Brian Johnson joins AC/DC, replacing the late Bon Scott.
1985 Kiss‘s Animalize Live Uncensored is released on video and attains platinum status.
1995 The Cult announces that they are breaking up.
2001 Godsmack, Staind, and others win honors at the Boston Music Awards, with Godsmack taking home four trophies.
2001 David Lee Roth announces that he had worked with Van Halen in 2000, though that music has never been released.
2002 Dave Grohl announces that he is taking a break from recording a new Foo Fighters album so he can play drums on tour with Queens Of The Stone Age.
2002 The White Stripes win Outstanding National Album for White Blood Cells and Outstanding National Single for “Hotel Yorba” at the Detroit Music Awards.
2002 In the latest legal go-round over the rights to Nirvana‘s music, lawyers for former drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic ask in court to have Courtney Love, widow of frontman Kurt Cobain, submit to a psychiatric exam. Love’s lawyer objects to the request.
2002 The body of Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley is discovered in his Seattle home. It’s later determined that he was dead for two weeks before being found.
2005 Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor admits in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for several years following the release of the band’s 1999 album The Fragile.
2006 An invasion of privacy lawsuit filed against former Creed singer Scott Stapp by a woman who appeared in a 1999 homemade sex video with Stapp, Kid Rock, and three other women is dismissed, with a Miami judge saying that the woman could not sue and remain anonymous.
2007 Metallica Tomaro, a seven-month-old Swedish girl whose parents fought to retain her first name, is allowed to keep it after authorities withdraw their objections. The Swedish tax board, which must approve and register the names of all Swedish residents, initially rejected the name because it was too associated with the band.