April 11th

April 11th

1970 The Beatles “Let It Be” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song displaces Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” at the top.

Meanwhile, John Lennon’s powerful “Instant Karma (We All Shine On)” sits at #3 on the pop chart.

1995 White Zombie release “Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head.” 

The group’s fourth album is their only one to feature drummer John Tempesta. The set peaks at #6 on the Billboard 200.

2025 Van’s Halen’s “Jump” Garners Over A Billion Streams

The song surpasses one-billions streams on Spotify. Released in December ’83 “Jump” was the lead single from Van Halen’s sixth studio album, “1984.”  It went to #1 on the. Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for five weeks.

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1974 Sum 41 singer/guitarist, Tom Thacker, is born. 

1979 All-American Rejects co-founding member and drummer, Christopher James Gaylor, has a birthday.

1981 Eddie Van Halen marries T.V. actress Valerie Bertinelli.

1983 Dave Mustaine gets kicked out of Metallica.  The band has already hired Kirk Hammett as their new lead guitarist. “I’d be aggressive and confrontational because I was a violent drunk… and that didn’t go over to well in the end,” Mustaine later offers.  He goes on to launch Megadeth.

1988 Iron Maiden’s seventh album, “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son,” arrives. The effort debuts at #1 on the U.K. album chart and at #12 on the Billboard 200. 

1992 “Let’s Get Rocked” puts Def Leppard at the top of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart.

1999 Carlos Santana receives the Special Achievement Award at the American Latino Media Arts Awards in Pasadena.

2005 Making a list and checking it twice. It’s revealed that Green Day, along with Marilyn Manson and Eminem, are on a list of musicians banned from performing at the Home Depot Center on the campus of California State University in Carson. Two Green Day shows are in jeopardy. But calmer heads prevail and the concerts are allowed. However, Metallica remains on the list along with more than two dozen others. The excuse is Green Day are now mainstream having sold millions of copies of their “American Idiot” CD.

2007 Godsmack singer Sully Erna is involved in an automobile accident in Methuen, MA. One woman is seriously injured. According to police, Erna’s Hummer rear-ended another vehicle causing it to smash into a third car.

2007 You give love a bad name. Actress Heather Locklear’s divorce from Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora is finalized.

2011 Former Florida governor Charlie Crist and ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne reach an out of court settlement over the politician’s illegal use of “Road To Nowhere” during his ’10 Senatorial campaign. Crist makes a formal video apology that is posted on YouTube. “My hope is that by standing up to this practice maybe it can be made to be a less common option, or better yet an option that is never taken in the future,” Byrne says in a statement.

2016 People hate Nickelback because the group appears to “lack authenticity.” That’s what Finnish doctoral student Salli Anttonen claims in her paper “Hypocritical Bullsh*t Performed Through Gritted Teeth: Authenticity Discourses in Nickelback’s Album Reviews in Finnish Media.” The price of success.

2022 Bring Me The Horizon joins Spotify’s one-billion streams club (which includes Metallica and Linkin Park) with the album, “Sempiternal.” Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth studio album, contains the singles “Can You Feel My Heart,” “Go To Hell, For Heaven’s Sake,” “Sleepwalking” and “Shadow Moses.” 

2024 Paul McCartney backed by The Eagles perform “Let It Be” during the “Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett” concert at the Hollywood Bowl.  The concert also features Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), Sheryl Crow, Jon Bon Jovi and Buffett’s own Coral Reefer Band. Buffett passed away the previous September.