ON THIS DAY IN ROCK N ROLL HISTORY! The father of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Chuck Berry, is born. 1926 1940s Gary Richrath is born in Peoria, IL. The REO Speedwagon guitarist stays with the band from ‘71 until ‘89. Though not in Chuck Berry’s league, he ain’t bad. 1949 1950s The late Doobie Brothers drummer Keith Knudsen is born. The Le Mars, IA, native takes up the drums while in high school. 1952 Elvis Presley gets into a fight with two Memphis gas station attendants. As Elvis is getting his car checked, fans gather and he starts signing autographs. The station manager asks Presley to move on. A fight erupts. The two station employees are later found guilty of assault and battery. 1956 Paul McCartney plays his first show with the Quarrymen. He blows the solo on “Guitar Boogie.” The Quarrymen eventually become The Beatles and Paul switches to bass. 1957 1960s The Animals begin their first U.K. tour as headliners. Also on the bill are Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent. 1964 The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays its first major show backing Billy Hallyday at the Paris Olympia Theatre. 1966 Richard Lester’s How I Won The War” premieres in London. The anti-war film features John Lennon as Corporal Gripweed. Lester directed the first two Beatle films (A Hard Day’s Night and Help!) 1967 Led Zeppelin plays their first London gig at the Marquee Club. This is after the group toured Scandinavia as the New Yardbirds. 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are busted for possession of marijuana. The bust, while not a major deal in England, is used in the 1970s as the reason the U.S. government doesn’t want Lennon to immigrate. Actually, the government felt Lennon was a political radical/troublemaker. 1968 1970s John Lennon and Yoko Ono are busted for possession of marijuana. The bust, while not a major deal in England, is used in the 1970s as the reason the U.S. government doesn’t want Lennon to immigrate. Actually, the government felt Lennon was a political radical/troublemaker. 1968 1980s Guns N’ Roses, opening for the Rolling Stones in L.A., are not up to par, due to drug use, and that sends vocalist Axl Rose around the bend leading him to threaten, onstage, to quit the group. 1989 1990s It’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Day in L.A. (where else). It’s also the film’s 15th anniversary. 1990 Bob Seger is inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk. 1994 Soundgarden’s “Superunknown” goes triple platinum (sales over 3 million). 1994 Marilyn Manson, opening for Nine Inch Nails, is banned (for moral reasons) from performing in Salt Lake City. Still, N.I.N. frontman Trent Reznor invites Manson onstage and explains why Manson’s group isn’t playing that evening. In the process, Reznor shreds The Book of Mormon and tosses it into the crowd. 1994 Nirvana’s live “From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah” enters the U.S. chart at #1. 1996 2000s Yet another award for Bono. The U2 vocalist and Representative John Lewis (D-GA) receive the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. Only two awards are given out annually to people who have advanced civil rights. 2004 The Scorpions, Whitesnake and Queensrÿche appear on the acoustic compilation VH1 Classic Metal Mania: Stripped Volume 2: The Anthems. The set includes Kip Wingers Madelaine, Jani Lane of Warrant singing Cherry Pie, Great Whites Rock Me, and Stephen Pearcy (formerly of RATT) performing Round And Round. An accompanying DVD, titled VH1 Classic Metal Mania - Stripped on the Strip: Live at the Key Club, is also out. 2005 Mudvayne, System Of A Downs Serj Tankian, ex-Guns N Roses guitarist Buckethead and Shadows Fall are on the two CD Masters Of Horror soundtrack. The Showtime series features 13 one-hour horror films by genres most acclaimed directors. Horror is to cinema what Rock & Roll is to music; rebellious, transgressive, loud and aggressive, claims Mick Garris, series executive producer. 2005 A Perfect Circles Billy Howerdel is heard on Jak X: Combat Racing, a childrens video game. I was surprised at first [to be asked], says the guitarist. Members of the Offspring, Limp Bizkit and Queens of the Stone Age also contribute to the soundtrack. 2005 Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and Sting appear on jazz trumpeter Chris Bottis album To Love Again. 2005 ITunes makes available an all-star cover of Eric Claptons Tears in Heaven with Ozzy Osbourne, Steven Tyler, Gavin Rossdale and Scott Weiland. Music is by Velvet Revolver. The Sharon Osbourne produced charity single, aids victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Southeast Asian tsunami. 2005 Known by the company you keep. U2s Bono goes to Capitol Hill to address a group of House Democrats about his concerns over debt relief for impoverished nations and the ongoing global AIDS crisis. The following day Bono lunches with President Bush. In his spare time, he and his bandmates perform a pair of D.C. concerts. 2005 Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke says the band may refuse to continue touring if something isnt done to reduce the environmental impact of a major act hitting the road. The way that tours are structured now and the way it works is a ridiculous consumption of energy, contends Yorke. 2006 Stone Sour play their first concert in Russia. The main thing [is] to get to all the places that we didnt get to go to last time, says singer Corey Taylor. 2006 Hinder’s headlining tour starts in College Station, Texas. Previously, they opened for Nickelback and Staind. 2006 The No Sleep Till Halloween tour with Papa Roach, Lostprophets and Kill Hannah draws first blood in Lowell, MA. The tour dies (ends) on Halloween night in Universal City, CA. 2006 Kid Rock makes the cover of Rolling Stone magazine (the 2007 Hot Issue). Rock is standing with his shirt open surrounded by four scantily clad (hot) women. That’s about right. 2007 Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie launch a joint tour in Seattle. Guitarist Zakk Wylde is in Ozzys band for the trek. 2007 A class-action lawsuit is filed against Aerosmith by fans who bought tickets for a nixed Maui concert. While ticket holders did receive refunds, the action seeks damages for travel expenses and other nonrefundable fees. The groups management claims that Aerosmith bowed out of the show for logistical reasons. However, the lawyer involved in the suit counters that the band was able to play apparently more lucrative shows in Chicago and Honolulu that same week. 2007 Neil Youngs Chrome Dreams Continental Tour (in support of his Chrome Dreams II album) gets going in Boise, ID. 2007 Here’s an interesting double bill. The Eagles and the Dixie Chicks co-headline the first of two shows at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. The second show takes place two nights later. 2007 Smashing Pumpkins perform their single G.L.O.W. at Spike TVs Scream Awards in L.A. Frontman Billy Corgan uses the occasion to complain about the way the music industry has treated his bands comeback. The show is broadcast a few days later. 2008 Kid Rock tapes an episode of VH1s Storytellers series. Concert footage features songs from his Rock N’ Roll Jesus album. 2008 Police frontman Sting and his wife Trudy are honored for their support of environmental causes by the Oceana conservation organization in Los Angeles. There are no reports of either of them abusing the help. 2008 Aerosmith plays the first of two make-up shows required in a settlement that resulted from legal action instigated by fans when the band cancelled a concert on Oahu to play more lucrative shows two years earlier. A concert on Maui comes two days later. 2009 2010s Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It premieres on VH1. The reality series provides a behind-the-scenes look at the solo performer/Poison frontman. 2010 Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood appears at composer David Arnolds Concert For Care at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays music from popular contemporary films. Greenwood composed an orchestral soundtrack for the film There Will Be Blood. The sponsor, Care International, fights global poverty and delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters. 2010 Jane’s Addiction roll out their first album in eight years, “The Great Escape Artist.” 2011 “Soul Punk, the R&B oriented solo album by Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump, is out. 2011 “Kurt Cobain: The Graphic Novel,” is available on iTunes. Written by Barnaby Legg and Jim McCarthy with art by Flameboy, the graphic, digital book and app tells Cobain’s life story in comic book style. App users can go through the novel page by page or frame by frame. 2011 Roll Over Beethoven: The Life and Music of Chuck Berry opens at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, on Berry’s 86th birthday (see above). The exhibit includes Berrys ‘58 recording contract with Chess Records and handwritten lyrics to Carol and School Days. 2012 KISS bassist Gene Simmons hosts KISS Army Night at the first annual Rocktoberfest at Nokia Plaza, in L.A. 2012 The Boss and the ex-Boss. Bruce Springsteen campaigns alongside Bill Clinton at a campaign rally in Parma, OH in support of a second term for President Barack Obama. 2012
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