On this day in rock (May 22nd)
1965 "Ticket To Ride" by the Beatles hits Number One on the pop chart.
1965 "Play With Fire" by the Rolling Stones peaks at Number 96 on the pop chart.
1971 Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones hits Number One on the album chart, where it stays for four weeks.
1976 "Silly Love Songs" by the Wings hits Number One on the pop chart, where it spends a total of five weeks.
1976 "Young Blood" by Bad Company, a cover of the Coasters song, peaks at Number 20 on the pop chart.
1976 "You Got The Magic" by John Fogerty peaks at Number 87 on the pop chart.
1997 Fleetwood Mac shoots the first of two shows for their reunion special The Dance.
2001 One Wild Night by Bon Jovi is released.
2001 The Motley Crue book The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band is published.
2003 The members of Lynyrd Skynyrd promote their Vicious Cycle album with an in-store autograph session at a Wal-Mart in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2003 Paul McCartney receives an honorary doctorate from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia.
2003 At the 48th Ivor Novello Awards in London, U2 wins the Outstanding Song Collection award for their career, Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry wins the Outstanding Contribution To British Music award, and Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson is given the Special International Award.
2003 Marilyn Manson's The Golden Age Of Grotesque debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200, selling just under 120,000 copies in its first week of release.
2005 The Darkness announce that they've parted ways with bassist Frankie Poullain due to "musical differences."
2005 Actor Thurl Ravenscroft (sang the How The Grinch Stole Christmas song "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"; the voice of Frosted Flakes mascot Tony The Tiger) dies at age 91.
2006 U2 singer Bono joins a local band in a 1,000-year-old chant at a restaurant on the banks of the Niger River in the city of Bamako, which is the capital of the West African nation Mali.
2007 Black Rain by Ozzy Osbourne is released.
Submit the above story to:
Del.icio.us
Digg
reddit
StumbleUpon
Facebook
1965 "Play With Fire" by the Rolling Stones peaks at Number 96 on the pop chart.
1971 Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones hits Number One on the album chart, where it stays for four weeks.
1976 "Silly Love Songs" by the Wings hits Number One on the pop chart, where it spends a total of five weeks.
1976 "Young Blood" by Bad Company, a cover of the Coasters song, peaks at Number 20 on the pop chart.
1976 "You Got The Magic" by John Fogerty peaks at Number 87 on the pop chart.
1997 Fleetwood Mac shoots the first of two shows for their reunion special The Dance.
2001 One Wild Night by Bon Jovi is released.
2001 The Motley Crue book The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band is published.
2003 The members of Lynyrd Skynyrd promote their Vicious Cycle album with an in-store autograph session at a Wal-Mart in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2003 Paul McCartney receives an honorary doctorate from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia.
2003 At the 48th Ivor Novello Awards in London, U2 wins the Outstanding Song Collection award for their career, Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry wins the Outstanding Contribution To British Music award, and Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson is given the Special International Award.
2003 Marilyn Manson's The Golden Age Of Grotesque debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200, selling just under 120,000 copies in its first week of release.
2005 The Darkness announce that they've parted ways with bassist Frankie Poullain due to "musical differences."
2005 Actor Thurl Ravenscroft (sang the How The Grinch Stole Christmas song "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"; the voice of Frosted Flakes mascot Tony The Tiger) dies at age 91.
2006 U2 singer Bono joins a local band in a 1,000-year-old chant at a restaurant on the banks of the Niger River in the city of Bamako, which is the capital of the West African nation Mali.
2007 Black Rain by Ozzy Osbourne is released.
Submit the above story to:
Del.icio.us
Digg
reddit
StumbleUpon
Facebook
The Rock Radio online