Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s November 6th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History!
Starting the day in 2008 as the MTV Europe Music Awards gave out the Best Act Ever award, and thanks to an internet voting campaign the winner was…. Oh. Looks like the YouTube function isn’t working… Here, try THIS!
Moving on to birthdays, we have Corey Glover of Living Colour, Greg Graffin of Bad Religion, and Glenn Frey of the Eagles!
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ANYWAYS, moving on to releases now, we got Shake It Up from The Cars in 1981!
We also received Journeyman from Eric Clapton in 1989 and Queen’s Made in Heaven in 1995!
And in 2020, for the time since 2005’s Hypnotize, System Of A Down released new material – Protect the Land and Genocidal Humanoidz – in support of their home country Armenia as a war had broken out in the region.
We lost Hugh McDowell of Electric Light Orchestra in 2018
In 1970, Aerosmith made their live debut at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, MA.
Five years later in 1975, the Sex Pistols played their very first live show. The set lasted a whole 10 minutes.
While filming a road trip show with his son Jack in 2015, Ozzy Osbourne returned to the Alamo, where he infamously peed on a statue in 1982.
And finally in 2014, Phil Rudd of AC/DC was charged with “attemping to procure murder” in a New Zealand court after comments he made during an album release party. The charges were dropped the next day. The coverage of the charge also caused a spike in streams of this AC/DC classic:
This has been Today in Rock History! Check back tomorrow for your next rock history lesson!
