AxlVanHagar
01-18-2009, 01:54 PM
Jan 18
1964 - The Beatles entered the US singles chart for the first time for I Want To Hold Your Hand which enters the chart at #45.
1973 - The Rolling Stones held a benefit concert at the Los Angeles Forum for refugees of a Nicuraguan earthquake. It raises over $400,000
1974 - Ex-members of Free, Mott The Hoople and King Crimson form the band Bad Company.
1978 - The first and only US Tour by the Sex Pistols ended at The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Johnny Rotten announce the band is finished publicly the following day.
1978 - Roy Orbison undergoes coronary by-pass surgery in a Nashville Hospital.
1980 - Studio 54 directors Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were both fined $20,000 and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for income tax evasion. Many point to this moment as The Day Disco Died.
1981 - Frank Carlton Serafino Ferrano changes his name to the much simpler Nikki Sixx and quits the band London to form a new band called Christmas. He recruits drummer Tom Bass and together they hook up with guitar player Bob Deal. Bass changes his name from Bass to Lee while Deal decides to call himself Mick Mars. The beginnings of Motley Crue are born.
1981 - Police arrest Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics onstage for simulating masturbation with a sledgehammer! Police were forced to wrestle her to the ground and pin her down. She received 12 stitches from cuts suffered to her face.
1991 - Teenagers Curtis Child, Jimmie Boyd and Elizabeth Glausi are killed during a crush in a crowd of 13,294 at an AC/DC concert at Salt Palace Arena in Salt Lake City. Glausi died after her parents request her life support be turned off.
1998 - Tommy Lee says Motley Crue is working on an album of cover tunes to be released mid-year. The proposed live album discussed at last year’s listening party shows is disregarded, since bootlegging was allowed on the Motley Crue Vs The Earth tour so fans could make their own live album. Tommy is also writing songs for a forthcoming solo album, due to be recorded in April for release next year.
1964 - The Beatles entered the US singles chart for the first time for I Want To Hold Your Hand which enters the chart at #45.
1973 - The Rolling Stones held a benefit concert at the Los Angeles Forum for refugees of a Nicuraguan earthquake. It raises over $400,000
1974 - Ex-members of Free, Mott The Hoople and King Crimson form the band Bad Company.
1978 - The first and only US Tour by the Sex Pistols ended at The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Johnny Rotten announce the band is finished publicly the following day.
1978 - Roy Orbison undergoes coronary by-pass surgery in a Nashville Hospital.
1980 - Studio 54 directors Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were both fined $20,000 and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for income tax evasion. Many point to this moment as The Day Disco Died.
1981 - Frank Carlton Serafino Ferrano changes his name to the much simpler Nikki Sixx and quits the band London to form a new band called Christmas. He recruits drummer Tom Bass and together they hook up with guitar player Bob Deal. Bass changes his name from Bass to Lee while Deal decides to call himself Mick Mars. The beginnings of Motley Crue are born.
1981 - Police arrest Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics onstage for simulating masturbation with a sledgehammer! Police were forced to wrestle her to the ground and pin her down. She received 12 stitches from cuts suffered to her face.
1991 - Teenagers Curtis Child, Jimmie Boyd and Elizabeth Glausi are killed during a crush in a crowd of 13,294 at an AC/DC concert at Salt Palace Arena in Salt Lake City. Glausi died after her parents request her life support be turned off.
1998 - Tommy Lee says Motley Crue is working on an album of cover tunes to be released mid-year. The proposed live album discussed at last year’s listening party shows is disregarded, since bootlegging was allowed on the Motley Crue Vs The Earth tour so fans could make their own live album. Tommy is also writing songs for a forthcoming solo album, due to be recorded in April for release next year.
