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.
1980 R.E.M. plays its first gig, a friend’s birthday party, at an old church in Athens, Georgia.
1994 Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain commits suicide, shooting himself in the head. His body is found three days later with a note quoting Neil Young‘s “Hey, Hey, My, My”: “It’s better to burn out than fade away.” Cobain was 27.
1995 Bush‘s debut album, Sixteen Stone, is certified gold.
2002 R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck is cleared in London of charges stemming from an air-rage incident on a British Airways flight in April 2001.
2002 According to coroner estimates, Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley dies at age 34 in his Seattle home from drug-related causes. His body is not found for two weeks.
2005 Megadeth announces that it will headline a summer package tour called Gigantour.
2006 Rob Zombie‘s third solo album, Educated Horses, debuts at Number Five on the Billboard album chart, selling more than 107,000 copies in its first week of release.
2007 Former Kiss guitarist Mark St. John dies at the age of 51 from a cerebral hemorrhage.
2012 The first new song from Soundgarden in 16 years, called “Live To Rise,” is released. The track is taken from Avengers Assemble, a collection of songs based on and/or inspired by the movie The Avengers.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
- Mike McCready (guitarist, Pearl Jam) (52)