Today in Rock May Twenty First Featured Artist Wallflowers Wallflowers The Wallflower’s second effort, “Bringing Down The Horses,” is released. “One Headlight” is THE song. 1996 1940s The Animals original guitarist, Hilton Valentine (born Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine), starts his life in North Shields, England. 1943 Chicagos William Bill Bradford Champlin (keyboards, guitar and vocals) is one of the few original members not from the Windy City or the Midwest. Hes born on this day in Oakland, CA. 1947 1950s Drummer Stan Lynch (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) has a birthday. He’s born in Cincinnati but grows up in Gainsville, FL. He’s with the Heartbreakers until ’94. 1955 Chuck Berry records Maybellene (essentially a reworking of Ida Red) in Chicago with Blues great Willie Dixon on bass. The song is Berrys first hit. 1955 1960s Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is arrested a second time for possession of cannabis in his London flat. 1968 The Beatles officially announce the appointment of Allen Klein and his ABKCO to handle their financial affairs. Earlier, Klein took over management of the Rolling Stones. 1969 1970s Paul McCartney releases Ram.” 1971 Aerosmith receives a gold LP for Rocks. 1976 British Punks label the Rolling Stones dinosaurs. Heck, the Stones are still relatively young. 1976 Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder’s tribute to Jazz great Duke Ellington, is the #1 song in the U.S. 1977 Elton John plays the Soviet Union. The first stop is Leningrad where Soviet officials monitor the show to insure that Elton doesn’t kick over his piano stool during “Bennie And The Jets.” Don’t want people to get too excited. 1979 1980s David Bowie’s Let’s Dance knocks off Michael Jackson’s Beat It to become the #1 song in the U.S. It’s stays at the top for all of one week. 1983 1990s Soundgarden’s fifth album, “Down On The Upside,” is released. Frontman Chris Cornell describes some of the songs as self-affirming.” Even so, it’s the group’s last album before they disband. 1996 2000s Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne Stone Free. The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards hits the stage at The BoxCar in Connecticut for some off-the-cuff Blues music with 89-year-old David Honeyboy Edwards and Rocky Lawrence. 2004 A businessman shells out $117,000 at a charity auction in Hertfordshire, England, to eat a meal prepared by Ozzy Osbourne. I hope that guy knows all I can f**kin cook is beans on toast, says Ozzy. What? No fried bat or bat soup? 2006 Velvet Revolvers She Builds Quick Machines, the first single from their Libertad album, hits the airwaves. Its a great f**kin rock song, says bassist Duff McKagan. It has a kick-ass guitar riff, a great chorus, a really big bridge and a great Slash solo. The video is directed by Dean Karr. 2007 Ozzy Osbourne makes the first on two consecutive appearances on ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Live to support his album, Black Rain. 2007 Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler enters rehab. He checks himself into a Pasadena, CA clinic for treatment of unspecified substance-abuse problems. Tyler battled drug addiction throughout much of Aerosmiths early career, undergoing rehabilitation in the 80s. 2008 Pink Floyd wins the 2008 Polar Music Prize, the Swedish music award. The honor recognizes Floyds monumental contribution over decades to the fusion of art and music in the development of popular culture. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf officially presents the award three months later in Stockholm. Past award winners include Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. 2008 At BMI’s Film & Television Awards in L.A. the performing-rights organization bestows trophies on The Whos Pete Townshend for composing the theme songs to CBS CSI, CSI: NY and CSI: Miami. 2008 David Cook becomes the first Rocker to win American Idol. He beats out teen-heartthrob David Archuletta. On the season finale, ZZ Top performs Sharp Dressed Man with Cook. Graham Nash and Bryan Adams also appear. 2008 Green Day blasts retail chain Wal-Mart for refusing to stock 21st Century Breakdown due to explicit lyrics. They wont carry our record because they wanted us to censor it, explains frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. We just said no. Weve never done it before. You feel like youre in 1953 or something. Wal-Mart offers to sell a clean version of the CD, but Green Day refuses to provide one. Despite Wal-Mart’s ban 21st Century Breakdown is the #1 album in the U.S. 2009 Sting and Sheryl Crow are among the performers at the One Night Live concert in Toronto. The event raises more than $1.8 million for the Women & Babies Program at the citys Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. 2009 2010s U2 U2 U2 frontman Bono undergoes emergency back surgery after suffering an injury during the bands rehearsals for their summer 360 world tour. Bono will spend the next few days in a Munich hospital before returning home to recuperate, reads a band statement. 2010 “Love Lust Faith + Dreams,” the fourth album by 30 Seconds To Mars,” is released. 2013 Fight Or Flight, with Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren, issue their debut single, “First Of The last.” 2013 Uriah Heep and Spiders From Mars bassist Trevor Bolder dies of cancer at the age of 62. Bolder joined David Bowies backing band in ’71 before replacing John Wetton in Heep five years later. Trevor was a wonderful musician and a major inspiration for whichever band he was working with, says Bowie. But he was foremostly a tremendous guy, a great man. 2013
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