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 Alice Cooper‘s pet boa constrictor is fatally bitten by a rat that the snake was supposed to eat.
1993 Kiss Alive III by Kiss enters the album chart at its peak position of Number Nine.
1995 Breeders guitarist Kelley Deal pleads guilty to drug possession charges. She is sentenced to treatment in a rehabilitation center.
1997 Oasis guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher and record company employee Meg Matthews wed in a private ceremony in Las Vegas.
2001 Beyond Good And Evil by the Cult is released.
2002 Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone dies at age 49.
2003 St. Anger by Metallica is released.
2003 Bert McCracken, frontman for the Used, is diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, after staggering offstage during a radio station concert in Cincinnati a week earlier.
2007 Former Soundgarden and Audioslave singer Chris Cornell issues his second solo album, titled Carry On.
2007 Marilyn Manson releases his sixth studio album, titled Eat Me, Drink Me.
2013 Alice In Chains‘ latest album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, debuts at Number Two on the Billboard album chart, selling 61,000 copies in its first week of release.
2014 The surviving members of the Beastie Boys win their copyright violation lawsuit against the Monster Energy beverage company, with jurors awarding $1.7 million to the band, for using portions of five Beastie Boys songs in an ad without the group’s permission.
Today’s Birthdays
- Pete Wentz (bassist, Fall Out Boy; ex-husband of Ashlee Simpson) (39)
- Aaron “P-Nut” Wills (bassist, 311) (44)
- Sebastian Lefebvre (guitarist, Simple Plan) (37)
- Nicko McBrain (drummer, Iron Maiden) (66)