“Keith Richards is the original punk rocker. You can’t out-punk Keith, it’s pointless. ”Mick Jagger
1970 - Led Zeppelin II was in the Top 20 on both the UK & US album charts after peaking at No.1. The album went on to spend 138 weeks on the UK chart. The album is now recognised by writers and music critics as one of the greatest and most influential rock albums ever recorded.
1973 - Elton John started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Crocodile Rock’. Elton’s first of five US No.1 singles was inspired by John’s discovery of leading Australian band Daddy Cool and their hit single ‘Eagle Rock’.
1979 - Blondie had their first of five UK No.1 singles, with ‘Heart Of Glass’, taken from the band’s third studio album, Parallel Lines. ‘Heart of Glass’ was originally recorded in 1975 under the name ‘Once I Had a Love.’
1986 - Dire Straits were at No.1 on the UK album charts with their fifth studio album Brothers in Arms. With ten weeks at No.1, the album is the seventh best-selling album in UK chart history and won two Grammy Awards in 1986, and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. Brothers in Arms also spent nine weeks at No.1 on the Billboard 200 in the US, and thirty-four weeks at No.1 on the Australian Album Chart.
1992 - Pearl Jam On their first Europe tour Pearl Jam played at The Esplanade Club in Southend, England to 300 people, the bands first ever UK show. The tour also took Pearl Jam to Norway, Sweden, Holland, France, Spain and Italy
1996 -”The World I Know” (Collective Soul) is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart.
2002 - Led Zeppelin’s “Rock And Roll” is used in a Cadillac commercial that debuts during the Super Bowl. It’s the first Zep song licensed for a commercial.
2002 - U2 performs a three-song set at halftime during the Super Bowl. During “Where The Streets Have No Name” the names of the victims of the 9-11 attacks are projected onto a screen behind the stage. At the song’s conclusion, frontman Bono opens his jacket to reveal an American flag printed into the lining.
2008 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed during the halftime-show of Super Bowl XLII at the University of Phoenix Stadium. They played ‘American Girl’, ‘I Won’t Back Down’, ‘Free Fallin’’ and ‘Runnin’ Down a Dream’.
2008 - Alice Cooper and exercise guru Richard Simmons appear in a Bridgestone Tire commercial that airs during the Super Bowl. Cooper is dark and menacing but Simmons steals the spot.
2010 - AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, joined a growing group of critics of Bob Geldof and U2 singer Bono over their very public charity work, saying they should stop lecturing audiences about charity work and instead do their good deeds in private. Johnson said “When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa. I’m sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry.”
2012 Dubious honor? Mötley Crüe is the first Hard Rock band to have a Las Vegas residency when " Mötley Crüe in Sin City” opens at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. “Vegas is based on big, big shows,” says frontman Vince Neil. In honor of the band’s milestone, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman proclaims it Mötley Crüe Day.
2014 - Bruce Springsteen was at No.1 on the US chart with his eighteenth studio album High Hopes. His eleventh No.1 album in the US, placed him third all-time for most No. 1 albums only behind The The Beatles and Jay-Z. The album is a collection of cover songs, out-takes and re-imagined versions of tracks from past albums, EPs and tours.
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