This Day in History: 2023-07-01
JULY 1st
Released the previous month, The Beatles classic “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” begins a fourteen-week run at #1 on the Billboard Album Chart. 1967
“Three Dollar Bill, Y’All” from Limp Bizkit (or limpbizkit, if you prefer) drops. 1997
It’s a double platinum album.
Shinedown release “Planet Zero.” 2022
The album debuts at #5 on the Billboard 100. The band’s seventh studio effort is their fifth Top 5 title.
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One way or another. Blondie‘s Debbie Harry has a birthday. 1945
Fred Schneider, B-52’s lead singer and solo performer (“Monster In My Pants”), enters the world. 1954
Faith No More’s keyboardist, Roddy Bottum, is born in L.A. 1963
A London Times editorial suggests Mick Jagger’s sentence for possessing illegal drugs (pep pills) was too severe (three months in prison) and that the courts are trying to make an example of him. Eventually, the sentence is dismissed. 1967
The first Texxas Jam takes place at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, with Aerosmith, Van Halen, Ted Nugent and Heart, It’s so hot that the 100,000 in attendance are cooled down using fire hoses. 1978
Former Steppenwolf bassist (on “Steppenwolf” and “II”) Rushton Moreve dies from injuries sustained in a Santa Barbara, CA, motorcycle accident. He co-wrote, with the band’s vocalist John Kay, the classic “Magic Carpet Ride.” He was 32. 1981
Sebastian Danzig, guitarist for Palaye Royale, is born. 1992
Brownsville Station leader, singer and guitarist Cub Koda dies from complications due to kidney failure. Coda co-wrote, along with bassist Michael Lutz, the great “Smokin’ In The Boy’s Room.” 2000
Pearl Jam raise nearly $3 million for the Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-poverty charity, by playing abrief tour that concludes with a private benefit show at NY’s Beacon Theater. 2008
U2 sells the Jean-Michel Basquiat painting Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) for $10.1 million at a Southeby’s auction in London. The group collectively bought the artwork in ’89 and hung it in the band’s Dublin studio. 2008
A ’58 Hofner Senator guitar once owned by John Lennon goes for more than $340,000 at a London memorabilia auction. The owner also gets an ’82 note from George Harrison confirming its authenticity. In addition, a guitar that once belonged to late Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones is sold for $132,000. 2009
Blink-182 issue “California.” The group’s seventh album is their first without Tom DeLonge (replaced by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba). The album comes out on the 182nd day of the year. 2016
Prince’s Purple Rain wardrobe goes for $192,000 at a Profiles in History auction in L.A. The late singer’s white ruffled shirt and black-and-white, leather-sleeved blazer worn in the film sell for $96,000 each. 2016
Stone Sour are #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart with “Song #3.” It’s from their “Hydrograd” album. 2017
“Vinnie Paul: A Public Celebration Of Life,” a memorial for the late Pantera drummer (who died on 6/22 at age 54) is held in Dallas. The day before, Paul was laid to rest in a KISS casket next to his brother and Pantera guitarist Darrell Abbott in nearby Arlington. 2018
