May 29th
1971 Rolling Stones have the #1 album, “Sticky Fingers” and the #1 single, “Brown Sugar.”
Yes, they really are the World’s Greatest Rock n’ Roll Band!
2000 “Brave New World” is Iron Maiden’s first studio release since the return of lead singer Bruce Dickinson.
Dickinson left the band in ‘93.
It’s the twelfth Iron Maiden studio album.
2010 Three Days Grace land at #1 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart with “The Good Life.”
The track is the second single from the band’s ’09 album “Life Starts Now” (pictured).
2021 “Bruised And Bloodied” #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock singles chart.
The song is on Seether’s eighth album, “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” (“If You Want Peace, Prepare For War).
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1945 Procol Harum founder Gary Brooker has a birthday. The singer-songwriter-pianist is from London.
1961 Melissa Etheridge is born in Leavenworth, KS.
1963 Ex-Iron Maiden vocalist, Blaze Bayley, enters the world.
1965 The Beach Boys “Help Me Rhonda” knocks The Beatles “Ticket To Ride” from the top spot on the pop chart.
1967 Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has a birthday.
1969 Crosby, Stills & Nash roll out their self-titled debut. The set contains “Marrakesh Express” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.”
1969 Blues Traveler guitarist Chan (Chandler) Kinchla has a birthday. He’s from Hamilton, Ontario.
1971 Thirty-six people are given medical attention after unknowingly drinking LSD laced cider at a San Francisco Grateful Dead concert.
1978 Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist (The Hives) is born.
1982 “Tug Of War,” Paul McCartney’s third solo album but first since Wings disbanded, is #1 on the Billboard 200.
2009 Ozzy Osbourne files a lawsuit against his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi (pictured) over rights to the group’s name. Iommi is accused of illegally registering with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as the sole owner of the Sabbath moniker. “The Black Sabbath trademark should be equally owned by Geezer (Butler), Bill (Ward), Tony and I as (that is) the true Black Sabbath lineup,” writes Osbourne in a statement.
2009 Legendary producer Phil Spector (The Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison) is sentenced to a prison term of 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot to death at Spector’s mansion in ’03.
2012 Bob Dylan is among the Medal of Freedom recipients. During a White House ceremony, President Obama says he’s “extremely grateful” to be able to personally thank the honorees “for the great work they have done” in America and worldwide. The Medal of Freedom is America’s highest civilian honor.
2015 “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” is Florence + The Machine’s third studio effort. The Markus Dravs produced album debuts atop the Billboard 200 making it the band’s first #1 on that chart.
2023 Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman ends his hiatus from the band. Four months earlier, the guitarist announced he was taking a break for mental health reasons.
2024 A long-lost acoustic guitar used by the late John Lennon sells for $2.9 million at auction in New York, becoming highest grossing auctioned guitar in Beatles history. The guitar was used in the ’65 film “Help” and on the accompanying soundtrack.
2024 Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless) is bitten by a bat during a concert in Seville, Spain. She takes the incident good-naturedly even though she is looking at a series of rabies shots. Her band is opening for AC/DC.
