AxlVanHagar
01-13-2009, 09:20 AM
Jan 12
1963 - Bob Dylan performs in a play as a folksinger.
1963 - The Beatles release Please, Please Me which would e their first Top 3 single
1981 - The RIAA donates 800 albums to the record library at the White House. Among the titles are KISS Alive!, Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde and The Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks
1984 - Motley Crue play Madison Square Garden for the first time. They are the support act for Ozzy Osbourne.
1987 - Rumors abound that Michael Jackson is set to purchase Motown Records. The asking price is a cool $75 million.
1987 - Pollstar names ZZ Top the #1 Convert draw for 1986.
1987 - As Mötley Crüe enters the studio to begin recording their next album, Nikki Sixx enrolls in a methadone program recommended by one of his childhood heroes. His weight soon drops to 164 pounds; 40 pounds less than a year ago.
1990 - Starting the 2nd leg of a North American Tour Faith No More plays a show In Toronto with Soundgarden and Voivod.
1990 - WKRL radio in Florida ends its all Led Zeppelin format 11 days after starting it.
1998 - Tommy Lee pleads no contest to misdemeanour battery at the Beverly Hills Municipal Court over the Viper Room nightclub incident on September 29, 1996. Henry Trappler’s lawyer, high-profile feminist attorney Gloria Allred, pushes for a jail term. The case is settled when Judge Elden Fox orders Tommy to pay $17,500 in restitution to Trappler, who was said to have been hospitalised for four days. He also supposedly had to use a cane for two months and was unable to return to his paparazzi job because of post-traumatic stress disorder after the incident. Tommy must also perform more than two hundred and fifty hours of community service or pay about $5,000 in fines by March 11. He is placed on probation for two years. A civil lawsuit also litigated by Gloria Allred could get under way by April.
Jan 13
1968 - Love Me Two Times from Strange Days by The Doors makes #25 in the US
1969 - Elvis Presley returns to a Memphis recording studio for the first time since he signed with RCA in 1955.
1973 - The Who's Pete Townshend gets Eric Clapton back on stage after his heroin addiction, organizing an all star comeback concert at London`s Rainbow Theater.
1979 - Live! Bootleg from Aerosmith reaches #13 in the US.
1980 - Fans riot in Milwaukee when The New Barbarians play without Keith Richards.
1980 - The Grateful Dead, Starship and The Beach Boys headline a benefit concert in LA to aid the victims of the Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea.
1989 - Keith Richards meets Mick Jagger in Barbados to begin working on a new album.
1963 - Bob Dylan performs in a play as a folksinger.
1963 - The Beatles release Please, Please Me which would e their first Top 3 single
1981 - The RIAA donates 800 albums to the record library at the White House. Among the titles are KISS Alive!, Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde and The Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks
1984 - Motley Crue play Madison Square Garden for the first time. They are the support act for Ozzy Osbourne.
1987 - Rumors abound that Michael Jackson is set to purchase Motown Records. The asking price is a cool $75 million.
1987 - Pollstar names ZZ Top the #1 Convert draw for 1986.
1987 - As Mötley Crüe enters the studio to begin recording their next album, Nikki Sixx enrolls in a methadone program recommended by one of his childhood heroes. His weight soon drops to 164 pounds; 40 pounds less than a year ago.
1990 - Starting the 2nd leg of a North American Tour Faith No More plays a show In Toronto with Soundgarden and Voivod.
1990 - WKRL radio in Florida ends its all Led Zeppelin format 11 days after starting it.
1998 - Tommy Lee pleads no contest to misdemeanour battery at the Beverly Hills Municipal Court over the Viper Room nightclub incident on September 29, 1996. Henry Trappler’s lawyer, high-profile feminist attorney Gloria Allred, pushes for a jail term. The case is settled when Judge Elden Fox orders Tommy to pay $17,500 in restitution to Trappler, who was said to have been hospitalised for four days. He also supposedly had to use a cane for two months and was unable to return to his paparazzi job because of post-traumatic stress disorder after the incident. Tommy must also perform more than two hundred and fifty hours of community service or pay about $5,000 in fines by March 11. He is placed on probation for two years. A civil lawsuit also litigated by Gloria Allred could get under way by April.
Jan 13
1968 - Love Me Two Times from Strange Days by The Doors makes #25 in the US
1969 - Elvis Presley returns to a Memphis recording studio for the first time since he signed with RCA in 1955.
1973 - The Who's Pete Townshend gets Eric Clapton back on stage after his heroin addiction, organizing an all star comeback concert at London`s Rainbow Theater.
1979 - Live! Bootleg from Aerosmith reaches #13 in the US.
1980 - Fans riot in Milwaukee when The New Barbarians play without Keith Richards.
1980 - The Grateful Dead, Starship and The Beach Boys headline a benefit concert in LA to aid the victims of the Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea.
1989 - Keith Richards meets Mick Jagger in Barbados to begin working on a new album.
