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On this day… Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx died from a drug overdose. He was pronounced dead in the ambulance before medics administered two adrenaline shots in the chest which revived him. Media outlets started reporting Sixx’s death. But after an in-hospital interrogation by police Sixx was released on his own recognizance (ignoring medical advice…
On this day… Billy Joel’s “Storm Front,” his eleventh studio full-length effort, is #1 on the Billboard 200. It’s Joel’s third album to reach #1 in the U.S. The album is best known for the song “We Didn’t Start A Fire,” a fast-paced recap of historical events, trends, and cultural icons from 1949 (the year Joel…
On this day… The owners of The Station, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, and Great White tour manager Dan Biechele are each charged with involuntary manslaughter. One hundred people were killed the previous February in a fire at the West Warwick, Rhode Island club after Biechele lit the pyrotechnics that sparked the blaze during a Great…
After Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and especially Alice Cooper, it seemed as though Rock had gone as far as it could. Wrong! Heavy Metal went further, faster and harder, often with violent or satanic imagery. Beginning in ’73 Judas Priest featured the twin guitar attack of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing and along the way…
On this day… The three surviving members of Led Zeppelin— John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (the latter two pictured above)— received Kennedy Center Honors during a ceremony in Washington D.C. “We owe a large debt to the vitality and variety of the music of the American people,” Jones, Plant and Page offered…
“I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against ‘Cold Turkey’ slipping down the charts,” wrote John Lennon. On October 26th, 1965, all four Beatles (Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) went to Buckingham Palace to receive their Member…
On this day… Nirvana taped their MTV Unplugged segment in New York City. It was not really unplugged since frontman Kurt Cobain insisted on feeding his acoustic guitar through effects pedals and amplifiers. Brilliant, though it initially displeased the MTV execs. That was one of many issues. Cobain’s decision to play “MTV Unplugged” was motivated by a…
On this day… While awarding the Medal Of Honor at the White House to Florent Groberg, a former Army captain who tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and was seriously injured, President Obama recounted a moment during Groberg’s recovery when he thought he was hallucinating because KoЯn singer Jonathan Davis appeared at his bedside. “I…
On this day… Axl Rose, Guns N’ Roses frontman, wants everyone to know that when “Sweet Child O’ Mine” was played at President Trump’s rally in West Virginia, he did not approve this message. “Unfortunately, the Trump campaign is using loopholes in the various venues’ blanket performance licenses which were not intended for such craven political purposes,…
On this day… Police nabbed 40 accused petty criminals in a sting operation that involved Ozzy Osbourne. Without Ozzy’s prior knowledge, police invited people with outstanding warrants to a fake pre-show party that promised free tickets to Ozzy’s Fargo, ND concert. Sheriff Paul Laney launched the sting operation. Ozzy insisted Laney apologize for using his name to secure…