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.
2003 Limp Bizkit pushes back the release of its fourth album to September.
2003 Ozzy Osbourne leaves Sony Music after 23 years with the label. He later re-signs with the company.
2003 Pantera vocalist Philip Anselmo makes it official that he has quit the band to concentrate on his other act, Superjoint Ritual.
2004 Velvet Revolver, featuring former members of Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N’ Roses, plays a secret “warm-up” show in Hollywood, California, prior to the start of their first national tour.
2005 Velvet Revolver lead singer Scott Weiland shoots a solo performance for Last Call With Carson Daly.
2006 Korn issues a collection of concert recordings and rare cuts titled Live & Rare.
2006 The Red Hot Chili Peppers release their ninth studio album, a two-CD, 28-song set called Stadium Arcadium.
2007 Rush‘s 18th studio album, Snakes and Arrows, debuts at Number Three on the Billboard album chart with sales of 93,000 copies.
Today’s Birthdays
David Gahan (lead singer, Depeche Mode) (56)
Pierre Bouvier (lead singer, Simple Plan) (39)
Billy Joel (69)
Paul McGuigan (original bassist, Oasis) (47)