January 29th

January 29th

Aerosmith - Walk This Way

1977 “Walk This Way” is a Top 10 single (peaks at #10).

The Aerosmith song was inspired by a line in the Mel Brooks comedy “Young Frankenstein.”


2011 The Black Keys “Tighten Up” tops Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.

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1947 David Byron (David Garrick), vocalist for Uriah Heep, enters the world. 

1952 Tommy Ramone is born with the name Tamas Erdelyi in Budapest Hungary. He grows up in Queens, NY, and is the group’s manager before becoming a band member.

1961 Bassist Eddie Jackson is born in Robstown, TX. He joins Queensryche in ’81.

1992 Blues legend Willie Dixon passes away. A musician, songwriter (“Back Door Man,” “Hoochie Coochie Man” and “I Ain’t Superstitious”), arranger, and record producer, Dixon is recognized as one of the founders of the Chicago Blues sound and his influence on Rock, especially the British vein, is immeasurable.

1994 ZZ Top’s “Pincushion” is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart. The song is from the band’s “Antenna” set.

2006 Bryan Adams plays a benefit show in Karachi to aid relief efforts following the earthquake that ravaged Pakistan the previous October. Adams is the first Western Rock star in Pakistan since the commencement of the “war on terror.”

2007 Nickelback announce they are donating profits from their single, “If Everyone Cared,” to charity. For six months, proceeds from download sales and accompanying video, which features humanitarians Nelson Mandela and Bob Geldof, go to Amnesty International and International Children’s Awareness Canada.

2008 Carlos Santana helps lead a campaign to have late United Farm Workers Union founder Cesar Chavez’s birthday, March 31st, recognized as a U.S. holiday. “It’s supremely important that a day be selected to honor the life of Chavez for his quality of service to all humanity,” says the guitarist.

2009 Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready appears in front of the Washington state legislature to promote a bill that would require local businesses to give sufferers of Crohn’s disease and other digestive disorders emergency access to private restrooms. “I’m 42 years old. I’m doing fine,” says the guitarist, who has been living with Crohn’s for more than 20 years. “But when you’re 13 or 14 and you’re going through those years with the shame and indignation — it’s embarrassing.”

2010 Roy Orbison gets a posthumous star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame (on Vine Street in front of the Capitol Records building, next to John Lennon and George Harrison).

2010 MusiCares at the Los Angeles Convention Center pays tribute to Neil Young for his achievements in both music and philanthropy (Farm Aid and the Bridge School benefit concerts).

2018 Black Label Society’s tenth full-length effort, “Grimmest Hits, is #1 on the iTunes Top Rock Albums Chart and #2 on the Billboard Rock Chart. 

2024 Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows quits the regular use of X, the social media platform once known as Twitter, because “it just simply doesn’t interest me at this point.” 

2024 Marilyn Manson is ordered to pay Evan Rachel Wood’s legal fees — a sum of $326,956 — after a judge dismisses a large portion of Manson’s defamation lawsuit against his former fiancée. Manson (Brian Warner) filed the defamation suit against Wood following her accusation of sexual abuse by the performer.