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.
1993 The Last Action Hero soundtrack enters the album chart. It features songs by Aerosmith, Anthrax, Alice In Chains, Cypress Hill, and Fishbone.
1993 In retaliation for an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. president George Bush during his April visit to Kuwait, President Bill Clinton orders U.S. warships to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in downtown Baghdad. The attack destroys the building, and according to Iraqi accounts, kills several civilians.
1996 Van Halen announce that they’re recording new material with original lead singer David Lee Roth, and that his replacement, Sammy Hagar, is no longer with the group. Two songs result from the sessions and are included on The Best Of Van Halen Vol. 1, but Roth and the band part company again after an appearance at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.
1996 Porno For Pyros announces that it will headline the ENIT Festival, which will also feature Love & Rockets, Meat Beat Manifesto, Nancy Sinatra and others.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment.
1999 Director Sofia Coppola marries director Spike Jonze. The marriage ends in early 2004.
2003 Foo Fighters‘s new video for their single “Low” is rejected by MTV Networks, due to the controversial nature of the clip. The video features frontman Dave Grohl and actor Jack Black prancing around in women’s clothes, spanking each other, and implying a sex scene.
2004 Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan appears on America’s Most Wanted to discuss the unsolved murder of Lorella Lepper, who ran the website for McKagan’s former band, Loaded.
2005 Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley and pop starlet Avril Lavigne get engaged.
2007 British band the Verve announces that it will reunite after eight years apart for a winter tour and new album.
2007 The Beastie Boys issue their first all-instrumental album, titled The Mix Up.