On this day in rock (May 18th)
1964 Paul McCartney is interviewed by David Frost on the BBC.
1968 "Friends" by the Beach Boys peaks at Number 47 on the pop chart.
1978 The movie The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, premieres in Dallas.
1991 Out Of Time by R.E.M. hits Number One on the album chart, where it spends two non-consecutive weeks.
1991 One From The Vault by the Grateful Dead peaks at Number 106 on the album chart.
1992 The Lemonheads release It's A Shame About Ray.
1993 Alive III by Kiss is released, the same day the band is inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk.
2000 Alice Cooper plays a special dress rehearsal for about 1,500 fans at the Web Theatre in downtown Phoenix.
2002 Bruce Springsteen dedicates a park in his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey, to the late Gordon "Tex" Vinyard and his wife, Marion, who supported Springsteen's early band the Castiles.
2003 INXS members Jon Stevens, Andrew Farriss, and Kirk Pengilly perform an acoustic set at the Indochine Restaurant in Singapore in a show of support for the country in the wake of the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic in Asia.
2003 Metallica plays the first of four hometown club shows at San Francisco's Fillmore Theatre, focusing on material from the band's earliest albums.
2004 George Thorogood & the Destroyers Greatest Hits: 30 Years Of Rock by George Thorogood is released.
2004 The Foreigner DVD Foreigner/25: All Access Tonight is released commercially. It originally came out in September 2003 on the official foreigenronline.com Website.
2004 The John Lee Hooker DVD Come And See About Me - The Definitive DVD, featuring Hooker performing with guests including members of the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, and Eric Clapton, among others, is released.
2004 Metallica is given the first-ever ASCAP Creative Voice Award.
2004 Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is hired as composer-in-residence by the BBC in England, assigned to write and produce modern classical pieces for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
2004 Black Sabbath is announced as the headlining act for that summer's Ozzfest for the first time in three years.
2006 Guns N' Roses plays an ultra-secret acoustic gig in New York City at a small club called Plum, as part of a birthday party for actress Rosario Dawson.
2006 Alice In Chains is joined onstage by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Screaming Trees/Queens Of The Stone Age singer Mark Lanegan and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan in Los Angeles at the official kick-off of the reunited band's five-date U.S. mini-tour.
2007 Ozzy Osbourne performs on the WWE program Friday Night SmackDown.
1968 "Friends" by the Beach Boys peaks at Number 47 on the pop chart.
1978 The movie The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, premieres in Dallas.
1991 Out Of Time by R.E.M. hits Number One on the album chart, where it spends two non-consecutive weeks.
1991 One From The Vault by the Grateful Dead peaks at Number 106 on the album chart.
1992 The Lemonheads release It's A Shame About Ray.
1993 Alive III by Kiss is released, the same day the band is inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk.
2000 Alice Cooper plays a special dress rehearsal for about 1,500 fans at the Web Theatre in downtown Phoenix.
2002 Bruce Springsteen dedicates a park in his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey, to the late Gordon "Tex" Vinyard and his wife, Marion, who supported Springsteen's early band the Castiles.
2003 INXS members Jon Stevens, Andrew Farriss, and Kirk Pengilly perform an acoustic set at the Indochine Restaurant in Singapore in a show of support for the country in the wake of the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic in Asia.
2003 Metallica plays the first of four hometown club shows at San Francisco's Fillmore Theatre, focusing on material from the band's earliest albums.
2004 George Thorogood & the Destroyers Greatest Hits: 30 Years Of Rock by George Thorogood is released.
2004 The Foreigner DVD Foreigner/25: All Access Tonight is released commercially. It originally came out in September 2003 on the official foreigenronline.com Website.
2004 The John Lee Hooker DVD Come And See About Me - The Definitive DVD, featuring Hooker performing with guests including members of the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, and Eric Clapton, among others, is released.
2004 Metallica is given the first-ever ASCAP Creative Voice Award.
2004 Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is hired as composer-in-residence by the BBC in England, assigned to write and produce modern classical pieces for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
2004 Black Sabbath is announced as the headlining act for that summer's Ozzfest for the first time in three years.
2006 Guns N' Roses plays an ultra-secret acoustic gig in New York City at a small club called Plum, as part of a birthday party for actress Rosario Dawson.
2006 Alice In Chains is joined onstage by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Screaming Trees/Queens Of The Stone Age singer Mark Lanegan and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan in Los Angeles at the official kick-off of the reunited band's five-date U.S. mini-tour.
2007 Ozzy Osbourne performs on the WWE program Friday Night SmackDown.
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