June 29th

June 29th

1991 Skid Row’s “Slave To The Grind” is #1 on the Billboard 200. 

1984 Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing In The Dark” peaks at #2 on the Billboard 100.

The Boss also launches his “Born In The USA” tour in St. Paul.

2013 Black Sabbath score their first U.S. #1 with “13.”

The set sells over 120,000 copies in its debut week. Sabbath had previously only reached the Billboard Top 10 once, when their ’71 album “Master Of Reality” peaked at #8.

Shinedown – Attention Attention (2018)

2019 Shinedown’s “Monsters” is their 14th #1 single on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs Chart. 

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1953 Dokken’s vocalist and namesake, Donald Maynard Dokken, has a birthday.

1948 Drummer Ian Paice (Deep Purple/Whitesnake) is born in Nottingham, England.

1963 For the first time, a John Lennon/Paul McCartney composition is on the U.S. pop charts. It’s Del Shannon’s cover of “From Me To You,” a song that had already been a U.K. hit for The Beatles. Earlier, Shannon toured England with The Beatles.

1967 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is found guilty of allowing his home to be used for smoking marijuana and is sentenced to a year in prison.  Eventually his sentence is dismissed. 

1969 The original Jimi Hendrix Experience (with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell) perform their last concert together. The show at the Denver Pop Festival is marred by police firing tear gas into the audience as the Experience plays “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).” The band escapes in the back of a rental truck.

1973 Singer Ian Gillian quits Deep Purple after less than four years with the group. However, he sings on the group’s most memorable songs including “Smoke On The Water.” Gillian bails at the end of a tour of Japan (in Osaka) citing exhaustion.

1974 Drummer Neil Peart replaces John Rustey in Rush.

1980 Singer Brian Johnson plays his first show with AC/DC. It takes place at the Palais Des Expositions in Namur, Belgium.

1985 Mick Jagger and David Bowie record their rendition of “Dancing In The Streets” (originally recorded by Martha & The Vandellas) for the upcoming Live Aid show.

1985 John Lennon’s psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce is auctioned by Sotheby’s for $2,299,000 (to a fellow named Jim Pattison from South Carolina).

1991 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers sail to the top of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart with “Learning To Fly.”  

1998 George Harrison reveals that he has undergone treatment for cancer caused by smoking. The ex-Beatle says he’s been given a clean bill of health and wryly adds “I’m not going to die on you folks just yet.” Cancer eventually does claim the ex-Beatle but not for a few years.

2000 Vandals damage the graves of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines, even spilling some of Gaines’ ashes.

2012 “Neil Young Journeys,” a collaboration between Young and director Jonathan Demme hits theaters. The documentary was filmed toward the end of Young’s ’11 solo tour.

2012 Carol Hawkins, a former assistant to U2’s Adam Clayton, is found guilty of stealing $3.5 million dollars from the bassist’s bank accounts

2022 Shinedown tie the Foo Fighters for the most Top 10 songs on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart when “Daylight” becomes Shinedown’s 29th Top 10 single. 

2022 Ex-Three Days Grace singer Adam Gontier and current members, bassist Brad Walst and his younger brother vocalist Matt Walst, are inducted into the Norwood District High School Hall Of Honor in Norwood, Ontario.  All three attended school there. 

2022 COVID is still around… Metallica cancel its headlining appearance at the Frauenfeld Rocks festival in Switzerland after a member of the band’s “family” tests positive for COVID-19. 

2023 Falling In Reverse postpones their 6/30 show in Syracuse, NY over poor air quality due to the smoke from Canadian wildfires. City officials deem the air quality unsafe for an outdoor concert to take place. The performance is rescheduled. 

2024 Nothing More’s “If It Doesn’t Hurt” is the band’s second #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. The first was the Grammy nominated “Go To War” in ’17. 

2024 “Crack Cocaine,” Billy Morrison’s collaboration with Ozzy Osbourne and guitarist Steve Stevens and co-written by all three – is #1 on Mediabase‘s Active Rock Song chart. 

2025 The opening concert of Marilyn Manson’s U.K. tour – set to take place October 29th in Brighton, England – is canceled following an online campaign by No Stage For Abusers and MP (Member of Parliament) Siân Berry. Manson is seen as a undesirable performer due to sexual accusation he has faced.