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.
1981 Van Halen‘s Fair Warning enters the album chart, where it stays for 12 weeks, peaking at Number Five. The album goes triple-platinum.
1987 A Beastie Boys concert in Liverpool, England, is abruptly ended when tear gas floods the auditorium and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz is arrested and charged with hitting a female fan. He’s later acquitted of causing bodily harm.
1992 The Black Crowes‘ second album, The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion, enters the album chart at Number One.
1999 Lenny Kravitz collapses from heat exhaustion during a concert in Holmdel, New Jersey. Kravitz played 40 minutes in a long sleeve coat and bell bottoms, but walked off stage and collapsed when the heat got to him.
2000 The Iron Maiden album Brave New World is released.
2000 Kid Rock releases The History Of Rock.
2002 Marilyn Manson fires longtime bassist Twiggy Ramirez.
2005 Slipknot plays a show in Greece despite efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church to stop them.
2005 Nine Inch Nails pulls out of an appearance on the 2005 MTV Movie Awards when MTV balks at the band using an image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Frontman Trent Reznor says, “Apparently the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.”
2007 Ozzy Osbourne‘s first album in six years, Black Rain, debuts at Number Three on the Billboard album chart, selling 152,000 copies in its first week of release.
Today’s Birthdays
Tom Morello (guitarist, Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave) (54)
Cee-Lo Green (singer, Gnarls Barkley; rapper, Goodie Mobb) (44)
Patrick Dahlheimer (bassist, Live) (47)
Nicky “Topper” Headon (drummer, the Clash) (63)