Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s June 23rd and here’s what happened Today in Rock History!
Starting it off, it’s Glenn Danzig’s birthday
Other birthdays include Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead, Derrick Bostrom of the Meat Puppets, Bonehead from Oasis and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth!
And speaking of Oasis, it was on this day in 1995 that drummer Alan White made his live debut as the band’s drummer at that year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Moving onto releases now, we got Emotional Rescue from The Rolling Stones in 1980, Dinosaur Jr’s Farm in 2009, and Runnin’ Wild from Airbourne in 2007!
Oh, and we also got the Armageddon soundtrack in 1998. Take it Aerosmith!
We lost Mick Ralphs of Bad Company in 2025 and Pete Quaife of The Kinks in 2010 of kidney failure. And speaking of the Kinks, the band played a show in Springfield, IL on this date in 1965. Why is that important? The show was organized by now notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
While performing on his Welcome To My Nightmare tour in 1975, Alice Cooper fell off the stage and broke six ribs.
And finally in 2016, the original plagiarism trial against Led Zeppelin and their song Stairway to Heaven comes to a close in favor of the surviving members of Zeppelin. Two years later the case was restarted due to a technicality, but the original ruling was upheld in 2020.
This has been Today in Rock History! Keep on Rocking, keep on Rolling! Check back tomorrow for your next rock history lesson!
