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Today in Rock
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March Twenty Second Featured Artist
Yardbirds singer and harmonica player, Keith Relf (center) is born. 1945 |
| | 1950's | At Memphis Recording Service (also home of Sun Records), Johnny Cash has his first session. Not much results except for "Hey Porter" but at least it’s a start. 1955
Carl Perkins is seriously injured in a car accident while on his way to New York to sing his new single “Blue Suede Shoes” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Though Perkins recovers, his career doesn’t. 1956
| | 1960's | EMI releases The Beatles' first UK album, “Please Please Me.” The title is taken from their biggest single to date. 1963
John and Yoko hold their first ‘bed-in” for peace in the Amsterdam Hilton. Their experiences are documented in “The Ballad of John and Yoko.” 1969
| | 1970's | The Allman Brothers Band gets busted in Jackson, Alabama. At a truck stop state troopers notice band members acting ‘erratically’. A search turns up heroin and marijuana. 1971
While on the campaign trail, presidential candidate Jimmy Carter announces that he listens to the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin for inspiration while working late nights as Georgia’s governor. Despite quoting Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday” he is elected president. 1976
Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto is born. 1977
The BBC airs “The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash.” It’s the ultimate (and very funny) Beatles parody. 1978
| | 1980's | We don’t need no education." Pink Floyd’s "Another Brick In The Wall" is the top song on the Hot 100. The track is from the group’s epic album, "The Wall." 1980
Heart’s "These Dreams" tops the pop chart. At #2 is another Rock ballad, "Sara" (Starship). The only Rock song sung by a Rock singer is John Mellencamp’s "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A." which holds the #5 spot. 1986
Dick Clark steps down as host of American Bandstand after a mere 33 years. 1989
| | 1990's | | | Bob Dylan and Liberace appear on Late Night With David Letterman. And no, they don’t perform together. Too bad, that image might have shocked a lot of late night viewers off drugs. 1984 | | 2000's | | Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson is charged with two counts of battery, more than three months after a New Year`s Eve scuffle with sheriff`s deputies at a Naples, FL, hotel. Deputies say the fight started when the guitarist`s son refused to get off the stage at The Ritz-Carlton, where the house band was performing. Lifeson tried to intervene when deputies escorted his son off the property. 2004
The Who`s Pete Townshend, appearing on a BBC documentary, says he considered suicide after his `03 arrest on suspicion of possessing child pornography. He was eventually cleared of possessing pornographic images. 2004
A "serious" bomb threat forces the cancellation of a Limp Bizkit concert in Katowice, Poland, just minutes before the band is scheduled to take the stage. The crowd exits without incident and frontman Fred Durst vows that “Bizkit will return to Poland.” 2004
"Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind" a documentary DVD on the making of the "Nevermind" album is released. Bassist Krist Novoselic, drummer Dave Grohl and producer, Butch Vig appear. 2005
Queens of the Stone Age release their fourth album "Lullabies To Paralyze." 2005
The Black Crowes reunite for five shows at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. 2005
"Devil's Playground" is Billy Idol’s first album of new material in twelve years. He claims Grunge’s popularity, a drug problem and no outlet for his music kept him away. The set includes numerous contributions from guitarist/collaborator Steve Stevens. "Scream" is the first single. 2005
The soundtrack to the WB TV drama Summerland is released. The set features Collective Soul and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Collective Soul contributes "General Attitude," from their "Youth" disc, while Shepherd offers up his hit "Alive." 2005
Velvet Revolver’s The Electric Wonderland Show Tour starts in Montreal. Hoobastank opens, joined on some dates, by Three Days Grace. 2005
Incubus put their European tour on hold and cancel a South American trek because guitarist Mike Einziger's severe hand injury requires surgery. 2007
Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger reports that the band's charity single "If Everyone Cared" raised more than $200,000 for Amnesty International and International Children's Awareness Canada. "If you can take that power and turn it toward positivity and awareness and trying to make a world a better place that's a great motive," says Kroeger. 2007
The Allman Brothers Band plays the first of 13 shows of their annual residency at New York's Beacon Theater. 2007
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