Rocktober 2nd
1971 Rod Stewart’s single “Maggie May” tops the pop chart.
Also, “Every Picture Tells A Story” is #1 on the album chart.
1979 The Police’s “Regatta de Blanc” released.
The band’s second set features the songs “Walking On The Moon” and “Message In A Bottle.”
1995 Oasis deliver “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory.”
It features the classic songs “Wonderwall” and “Champagne Supernova,”
2007 Matchbox 20 unfurls “Exile On Mainstream.”
The combination of new and remastered tracks peaks at #3 on the Billboard 200 and sells over 660,000 copies to be certified gold in the U.S.
2010 Linkin Park’s “A Thousand Suns,” is #1 on the Billboard 200.
It’s the band’s fourth studio album.
2012 “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness” goes Diamond (10 million units sold).
The Smashing Pumpkins album came out in ’95.
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1951 Gordon Matthew Sumner is born. Due to a fondness for a black and yellow striped jersey, he acquires the name Sting, frontman for The Police.
1950 Genesis/Mike + The Mechanics guitarist Mike Rutherford (Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford) is born in Guildford, Surrey.
1965 The Who make their U.S. TV debut on Shindig and perform “My Generation.”
1965 Garage Rock arrives. “Hang On Sloopy” by the McCoys tops the U.S. pop chart.
1967 Sublime’s Bud Graugh enters the world.
1971 Guitarist Jim Root, #4 in Slipknot, has a birthday. He is also a former member of Stone Sour.
1975 A bomb scare cancels a Bruce Springsteen concert in Milwaukee. The show is rescheduled for midnight. Meanwhile, Springsteen has a few drinks at the hotel and rides on the hood of a car back to the concert hall. A journalist writes “I have seen the future of Rock & Roll and he’s on my windshield.”
1976 Joe Cocker appears on Saturday Night Live. During “Feelin’ Alright” cast member John Belushi does a dead-on impersonation of Cocker’s ‘spastic’ moves. Cocker goes for Soul while Belushi aims for laughs.
1977 The bodies of Elvis Presley and his grandmother are moved to Graceland. A month earlier someone tried to steal Elvis’ body from Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis.
1978 Toto release their first, and best hit, “Hold The Line.”
1982 John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp’s “Jack And Diane,” “Two American Kids Living in the Heartland,” begins a four-week run at #1 on the U.S. pop chart.
1982At a benefit concert in England, current members of Genesis (Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks) are joined by past members Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel. Finally.
2001 “Come Together: A Night For John Lennon’s Words and Music” is held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Dave Matthews and the Stone Temple Pilots are among the performers.
2003 Ex-Hole leader and actress Courtney Love (Hole) has a rough night. She is arrested for possession of illegal drugs after trying to break into an L.A. house. Later in the evening, after posting bail, the widow Cobain is rushed to the hospital suffering from a drug overdose.
2006 Supreme Court justices uphold lower-court decisions dismissing guitarist Vinnie Vincent’s claims against KISS over alleged unpaid royalties. Vincent, who replaced founding KISS member Ace Frehley in ’82 and played with the group until ’84, sued for money he said he was owed for co-writing several songs that appeared on the band’s ’83 effort, “Lick It Up.”
2010 Stone Sour’s “Say You’ll Haunt Me” begins an eight-week run atop the Rock Songs chart.
2010 Farm Aid celebrates its 25th anniversary with a concert at Milwaukee’s Miller Park. Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), and Dave Matthews are among the performers. 35,000 people attend the show raising over $2 million for the owners of family-run farms.
2012 Scott Stapp’s autobiography, “Sinner’s Creed,” is out. The Creed frontman discusses his career and his battle with alcoholism, and depression. “It’s definitely a cathartic process for me, and I hope that those who read it can walk away knowing more about my life,” says Stapp.
2015 “Condition Human,” by Queensryche, is out. “It’s the evolution of Queensryche,” claims guitarist Michael Wilton. Frontman Todd La Torre adds, “there’s no fat or filler on it.”
2015 Slipknot’s Scream Park, a haunted house attraction in Sacramento, begins a one-month run concluding on All Saints Day (that’s the day after Halloween for all you heathens), with three haunted houses: Prepare For Hell, Clown’s Playhouse, and Skin Ticket.
2016 Former KoЯn members David Silveria and Zac Baird, appear at the first Rock To Recovery awareness event and fundraiser at the Fonda Theatre in L.A. Rock To Recovery is a treatment and recovery program.
2017 Puddle Of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin cops a plea in his ‘16 vandalism case – when he trashed his foreclosed Hollywood Hills home. He gets 3 years probation but must pay more than $40,000 in fees and restitution.
2017 The legendary Tom Petty dies of an accidental drug overdose, at the age of 66, one week after the end of the Heartbreakers’ 40th Anniversary Tour.
2019 The Muff’s singer-guitarist Kim Shattuck dies at the age of 56 after a battle with ALS. Shattuck was also briefly a member of the Pixies.
2023 Stevie Nicks says, in a published interview, that she sees “no reason” to continue Fleetwood Mac without keyboardist and co-vocalist Christine McVie, who passed away the previous year.
2024 Three Days Grace announce the return of original frontman Adam Gontier. He shares lead vocals with Matt Walst, who has fronted Three Days Grace for over decade.
