Happy Birthday to William Bruce Rose!!! Ok otherwise known as Axel Rose of Guns N Roses!!!!
And One Love’s Bob Marley also has a Birthday today!!
Fun Quotes! “Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you’re a rock n roll musician. Whereas if you were a violinist, it might be a little different. ”Slash, Guns n Roses
Rock History!!!
1965 - The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones second album Rolling Stones No.2 started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK charts. The album followed its predecessor’s tendency to largely feature R&B covers. However, it did contain three compositions from the still-developing Mick Jagger - Keith Richards songwriting team.
1967 - Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were photographed for the weekly British girls magazine Jackie. The magazine was the best-selling teen magazine in Britain for ten years. The best-ever selling issue was the 1972 special edition to coincide with the UK tour of American singer David Cassidy.
1971 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin announced a small UK club tour which would see the group playing Universities and small venues with ticket prices at 12 shillings (60p). Zeppelin manager Peter Grant said ‘We decided to do the clubs and forget about the bread and the big concert halls’.
1982 - Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock And Roll” begins a five-week run at #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
1982 - J Geils Band
The J Geils Band started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Centrefold’, the bands only US No.1. A No.3 hit in the UK. The bands album ‘Freeze- Frame’ started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart on the same day.
1990 - Billy Idol
Billy Idol suffered serious injuries when he failed to pull up at a stop sign and crashed from his Harley-Davidson motorbike into a car.
2001 - Eagles
Guitarist Don Felder was fired from the Eagles. He would later launch a $50 million law suit against drummer Don Henley and guitarist Glen Frey, alleging wrongful termination and breach of implied-in-fact contract. Henley and Frey then countersued Felder for breach of contract, alleging that Felder had written and attempted to sell the rights to a “tell-all” book. Both parties settled out-of-court for an undisclosed amount.
2008 Singer Scott Weiland “voluntarily enters a rehab clinic” after Velvet Revolver’s concert in Los Angeles. As a consequence, the group’s scheduled performance in San Diego the next night is postponed. That would have been the last show of VR’s U.S. tour.
2009 Axl Roses gives Billboard magazine his first major interview in nine years. The Guns N’ Roses singer says he may perform with ex-GN’R members at some point but vows never to play again with Slash. “One of the two of us will die before a reunion, however sad, ugly, or unfortunate anyone views it,” declares Rose. Seven years later Axl and Slash are together again.
2009 Hunting advocate Ted Nugent is inducted into the National Bowhunters Hall of Fame.
2010 “Hope For Haiti Now,” a compilation album designed to raise money for Haitian earthquake victims tops the Billboard 200 with debut week sales in excess of 150,000. It’s the first digital-only production to top the chart. The set includes songs by Bono and The Edge (U2), Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young and Sting (Police).
2011 Ozzy Osbourne and teen heartthrob Justin Bieber appear in a Best Buy ad that’s broadcast during the Super Bowl (3rd quarter). The ad has the pair dressed in futuristic black jumpsuits. Ozzy asks, “What’s a Bieber?”
2011 Thin Lizzy’s Gary Moore is found dead at a hotel in Estepona. The 58-year-old guitarist was in Spain on vacation.
2014 Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett hosts his first horror convention, “Kirk von Hammett’s Fear FestEvil” is a three-day event in San Francisco.
2014 - Nirvana
Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was named as the greatest song of all time by NME. ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was one of the last songs written for Nirvana’s breakthrough album, ‘Nevermind’, which was released in 1991. The rest of the top five tracks were: 5: ‘Last Nite’, The Strokes, 4: ‘How Soon Is Now?’, The Smiths, 3: ‘I Feel Love’, Donna Summer, 2: ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’, Joy Division
2018 Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launches the Falcon Heavy rocket into space releasing a “midnight cherry Tesla Roadster” into the cosmos playing David Bowie’s ‘69 classic, “Space Oddity.” Inside the car is a dummy known as “Starman,” a reference to the Bowie song of the same name.
2024 According to ReptileMagazine.com (yes, it’s real) a lizard species has been named after Iron Maiden’s singer Bruce Dickinson. Enyalioides dickinsoni is found 460 miles north of Lima, Peru.
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