June 22nd

1979 “Rust Never Sleeps” is released.
The Neil Young live set is half acoustic and half electric, and features “Hey Hey, My My.”
1981 Mötörhead’s live set “No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith” arrives.
The effort goes to #1 in the U.K.
1996 Metallica’s sixth studio album “Load” tops the Billboard 200.

2013 Queen Of The Stone Age’s “… Like Clockwork” debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200. Selling 91,000 in its first week, the album pushes Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” to #2.

2021 The self-titled debut album from Mammoth WVH is #1 on the Top Rock Albums chart.
Wolfgang Van Halen’s (son of Eddie) solo debut also rules the Hard Rock and Independent charts.
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1948 “Hello, it’s me.” Singer, songwriter and producer, Todd Rundgren (Meat Loaf, Grand Funk Railroad, Cheap Trick), is born in Upper Darby, PA.
1967 The drug trials of Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards begin. Richards serves limited jail time.
1969 The Jeff Beck Group make their U.S. debut at New York’s Fillmore East. Singer Rod Stewart’s stage-fright is so bad he hides behind the speakers for the first song.
1970 Steven Page, vocalist/guitarist for the Barenaked Ladies, is born in Scarborough, Ontario.
1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to the murder of John Lennon.
1985 Featuring Glenn Frey’s “The Heat Is On,” the “Beverly Hills Cop” soundtrack tops the Billboard 200 for two weeks.
1985 Bryan Adams takes “Heaven” to the top of the singles chart.
1990 Billy Joel is the first Rock performer to appear in concert at Yankee Stadium.
1992 Black Sabbath release “Dehumanizer,” their first studio album with singer Ronnie James Dio since ‘81’s “The Mob Rules.”
1992 Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain is rushed to a Northern Ireland hospital suffering from acute stomach pains. The group had just finished a show at King’s Hall in Belfast.
2006 Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters performs in Nevah Shalom, Israel, a community with a mixed population of Arabs and Jews. The show had been scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv but Waters, an outspoken critic of the dividing wall Israel’s government built to separate Palestinian villages, wants to promote a nonviolent solution to the country’s civil strife.
2006 Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger gets pulled over in Surrey, Canada, and faces charges of impaired driving and driving with a blood-alcohol level exceeding the legal limit of 0.08. Kroeger is stopped in the early morning, reportedly because he’d been speeding and driving erratically.
2009 Linkin Park celebrates the L.A. premiere of “Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen” by performing a brief concert outside Mann’s Village Theater following the screening. The band’s “New Divide” is on the film’s soundtrack. The movie goes national two days later.
2010 Ramones drummer Marky Ramone (Marc Bell) files suit in New York Supreme Court claiming he has not received any band royalties since ’08. He asks for $175,000 in back royalties and $1 million in punitive damages.
2019 “Africa Speaks,” Santana’s twenty-fifth studio effort, debuts at #3 on the Billboard 200. As the title implies it was inspired by music from of Africa and is a “unique fusion of Rock, Latin and Jazz.”