The songs, “It’s Not Over” and “Home” are downloaded over 1-million times as digital tracks/ringtones.
2021 Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” surpasses one-billion streams on Spotify.
It’s the band’s first song to reach that milestone.
2022 Lizzy Hale criticizes Supreme Court ruling.
Reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade the Halestorm frontwoman issues a statement via Instagram. “I’m angry, disgusted, heartbroken and terrified. This overturn is going to cause so much pain, division, immense mental anguish, and death. The majority of America does NOT agree with this decision. It’s truly the tyranny of the minority.”
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1963 One-time member of Nine Inch Nails (’94-’00), multi-instrumentalist Charles Clouser, is born in Hanover, NH.
1965 Dick Clark’s afternoon teen music show, “Where The Action Is,” makes its debut on ABC. The ‘house’ band is Paul Revere & The Raiders.
1977 The Killers’ bassist, Mark Stoermer, is born in Texas. His family later moves to Las Vegas.
1997 Radiohead’s “OK Computer” is #1 on the U.K. album chart. However, it only goes to #21 in the U.S.
1997 Tonic’s “If You Could Only See” is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart.
2005 U2 sue Lola Cashman, one of their former stylists, to regain possession of about $6,000 worth of memorabilia, which includes a cowboy hat and a pair of pants worn by Bono. The band claims Cashman wrongly appropriated the items during the band’s ’87 Joshua Tree tour. “They sound like trivial items, they’re really not,” says Bono in a Dublin court. The judge rules in U2’s favor.
2010 Metallica’s “Death Magnetic,” released in ’08, is certified double platinum by the RIAA having sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone.
2010 AC/DC’s Black Ice tour wraps up in Bilboa, Spain, becoming the second highest-grossing concert trek in history earning nearly $441.6 million. But the Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang tour is still #1.
2012 Lamb Of Lamb frontman Randy Blythe is arrested for manslaughter before the band’s show in Prague. The charge results from a 2010 concert in the city where a fan jumps on stage and gets into a tussle, resulting in injuries that cause his death. Blythe is later cleared.
2013 Boston founder Tom Scholz is ordered to pay the Boston Herald $132,000 in court costs after losing a defamation suit against the newspaper, who suggested the guitarist was responsible for the ’07 suicide of the band’s singer Brad Delp.
2013 Kid Rock launches a North American summer tour only charging fans $20 per ticket. “Everyone knows the economy is still hurting people across the country, but I didn’t want that to be a reason why everyone couldn’t get out and enjoy themselves on a summer night,” says Rock of his ‘Best Night Ever Tour’.
2013 Elton John’s annual White Tie & Tiara gala raises over $4.5 million for the AIDS Foundation. One of the auction items is a $180,000 Audi RS 6 Avant car autographed by actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
2014 Metallica are the first Metal band to headline the 44-year-old Glastonbury Festival. There’s a controversy over the group’s inclusion but a sold-out show settles the issue.
2015 U2 pay tribute to their LGBT fans in Chicago by playing “Pride” following the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Bono says the decision is a moment to remember for the gay rights movement.
2016 A scientific research vessel that monitors water quality in Puget Sound is named SoundGuardian in honor of Seattle’s Soundgarden.
2016 Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley’s early guitarist, dies at age 84 in Nashville. Moore played on “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” and many other Presley classics. Moore’s work also influenced succeeding generations.
2022 Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Parker is hospitalized with pancreatitis. During an endoscopy, Barker has “a very small polyp removed right in a very sensitive area, usually handled by specialists, which unfortunately damages a critical pancreatic drainage tube.” Thanks to immediate treatment he makes a recovery.
2023 Nickelback are inducted into the BC (British Columbia) Entertainment Hall Of Fame during a StarWalk ceremony on Granville Street in Vancouver. They are recognized for their “significant contribution(s) to the province’s entertainment industry and cultural landscape.”
2023 Disturbed frontman David Draiman sings an acapella version of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah” before a sold-out crowd during the band’s Tel Aviv Expo concert. The Hebrew-speaking Draiman once trained to be a cantor.
2024 The Eagles co-founder, Don Henley, files a civil lawsuit in New York seeking the return of his handwritten notes and lyrics for the classic “Hotel California” album from three collectibles experts accused of scheming to sell the allegedly stolen documents.
2024 Elton John joins President Joe Biden at the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York, the first LGBTQIA+ center in the National Park Service’s network. “This is one of the biggest honors of my life to be here today, having watched what took place 55 years ago,” said John, who gave a surprise performance that included “Bennie And The Jets,” “I’m Still Standing” and “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me.”
2025 The founding members of Black Sannath are awarded the Freedom of the City of Birmingham (the band’s hometown) at a ceremony in the Council House.
2025 Iron Maiden performs at London Stadium, home of West Ham Football Club, for the first time. Bassist Steve Harris is a major fan while guitarists Dave Murray and Adrian Smith were born in the surrounding area. The concert, part of the “Run For Your Lives” 50th anniversary tour, entertains an estimated 70,000-75,000 fans to become the biggest U.K. venue the band has ever headlined outside of its festival appearances.