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.
1970 Jimi Hendrix plays his final gig in the U.K. on the final day of the Isle Of Wight festival.
1986 “Yankee Rose” by David Lee Roth peaks at Number 16 on the pop chart.
1989 Guns N’ Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin is arrested for creating a disturbance, urinating on the floor, verbally abusing a flight attendant, and smoking in a no-smoking area on a U.S. Airways flight.
1993 U2 bassist Adam Clayton and model Naomi Campbell postpone their wedding for a year, citing work commitments for the delay. They never marry.
2002 Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, known for his trademark red baseball cap, launches a new line of hats through his company, Flawless.
2004 Fuel announces that they’ve fired drummer Kevin Miller.
2005 Death Cab For Cutie releases its major label debut, Plans.
2005 Garbage cancels a European tour scheduled for October, saying in a statement that the band has “overextended themselves.”
2007 Buckcherry‘s massive hit “Crazy Bitch” notches a full year in the Nielsen Ringscan Top 30, which measures downloads of ringtones, and is the first song to achieve that in the chart’s brief history.
2015 Disturbed lands its fifth Number One album in a row on the Billboard album chart as its sixth studio effort, Immortalized, enters the chart in the top spot with first-week sales of 98,000 copies. Disturbed is only the third group to score five consecutive chart-topping records, following Metallica and Dave Matthews Band.
Today’s Birthdays
- Cameron Diaz (actor, The Mask, There’s Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, the Charlie’s Angels movies, the Shrek movies) (46)
- Lisa Ling (former co-host of TV’s daytime talk show The View) (45)
- Peggy Lipton (actress, Twin Peaks, Julie from TV’s The Mod Squad) (72)
- Warren Buffett (Wall Street whiz, and one of the richest men on the planet) (88)
- Michael Chiklis (actor, The Shield, the “Thing” in the Fantastic Four movies) (55)
- Robert Crumb (cartoonist, Zap Comix, Mr. Natural) (75)
- Bill Daily (actor, I Dream Of Jeannie‘s Roger Healey, The Bob Newhart Show‘s Howard Borden) (91)
- Ryan Ross (ex-guitarist, Panic! At The Disco) (32)