July 19th

July 19th

1965 The title track from The Beatles second film, “Help!” is released as a single.

1975 “Venus And Mars” is #1 on the Billboard 200. 

It has “Rock Show” and “Listen To What The Man Said,” which tops the Billboard Hot 100. 

1986 “Invisible Touch,” by Genesis, is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

1994 Marilyn Manson release “Portrait Of An American Family.”

The set, produced by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, goes gold.

2025 Three Days Grace Score 19th #1.

“Apologies” is the band’s 19th #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

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1947 Guitarists Bernie Leadon (The Eagles) and Brian May (Queen) share a birthday.

1948 Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux is born.

1952 Allen Collins (Larkin Allen Collins Jr.), guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd is born in Jacksonville, FL. 

1965 The Rolling Stones classic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” is certified gold by the RIAA (U.S. record industry).

1967 Robert Conrad “Robb” Flynn, lead vocalist/guitarist for Machine Head, is born on Oakland. 

1976 Deep Purple pull the plug after numerous personnel changes. They went through three lead singers (Rod Evans, Ian Gillian and David Coverdale), three bass players (Nicky Simper, Roger Glover and Glenn Hughes) and two guitarists (Ritchie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin). Only organist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice make whole trip. Of course, like so many bands, they later reform.

1976 Allman Brothers Band’s road manager Scooter Herring is convicted on drug charges and sentenced to 75 years in prison based largely on testimony provided Gregg Allman in deal to avoid drug charges of his own after a drug trafficking sting. The band, feeling Allman is a ‘snitch’, cease for a couple years.  Herring only serves 18 months.

1980 “The Game” tops the U.K. chart. The Queen set, featuring “Another One Bites The Dust,” has a three-week run at #1.

1991 Guns N’ Roses made him do it. Steven Alder sues his former bandmates claiming they forced him to use heroin, then bounced him from the group when he tried to kick the habit. The drummer is later paid $2 million and 15% of royalties for everything he recorded up until his dismissal. 

1992 Ellie Rowsell, singer with Wolf Alice, is born in North London. 

2001 It’s revealed that Metallica’s James Hetfield has entered rehab for alcoholism and “other addictions.”

2006 Guns N’ Roses exit the stage abruptly at their concert in Newcastle, England. Singer Axl Rose is hit twice by objects thrown from the crowd. Keyboardist Dizzy Reed calls the show “one of the best gigs of the entire tour,” and says the early ending was due to “two morons who obviously don’t know how to behave at a Rock concert.” Does anybody? 

2010 Warrant’s lead singer Jani Lane is ordered to serve 120 days in jail after pleading no contest to his second DUI charge in less than a year. Officers at the scene reported that Lane blew twice the legal limit in a Breathalyzer test and failed field sobriety tests. Lane also loses his license for three years and is required to complete a 30-month alcohol education program.

2012 KISS play a private show for veterans at the Jiffy Lube Live Arena in Bristow, VA. Prior to the show, KISS and opening act Mötley Crüe present a check for $250,000 to the National Chamber Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program. “A free country’s greatest national treasure are the people that make that country free,” says KISS’ Paul Stanley. “God bless our troops. God bless America.”

2012 Roger Waters’ The Wall world tour is the highest-grossing trek of the year, according to Billboard’s Boxscore. The trek earns $131.4 million in six-months, far outdistancing tours by Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen and Pearl Jam.

2016 Third Eye Blind perform at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame charity event in Cleveland before an audience filled with Republican National Convention attendees. Frontman Stephan Jenkins continually blasts the GOP and antagonizes the crowd. He gets booed a lot.

2021 The Columbus (OH) City Council passes legislation to turn the Alrosa Villa nightclub where Pantera/Damageplan guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott was murdered into affordable apartments. For four decades, the Alrosa Villa hosted local and national acts, including Slipknot, KoЯn and Buckcherry.