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Metallica

Happy Birthday to Ronnie Van Zant!!! He would be 77 today if he were still with us.

Fun Facts!!!

Steven’s Tyler’s throat surgery was featured in 2007 on an episode of the National Geographic Channel series, Incredible Human Machine.

1977 The Eagles’ “Hotel California” is the #1 album in the U.S. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave. The set has the title track and “New Kid In Town.”

Rock History on This Day!!!

1965, The Who released their first single “I Can’t Explain,” with Jimmy Page on guitar and The Ivy League on backing vocals. It went on to reach number eight on the singles chart.

1967, The Rolling Stones were forced to change the lyrics of “Lets Spend The Night Together” to “Lets Spend Some Time Together” when appearing on the US TV’s The Ed Sullivan Show, after the producers objected to the content of the lyrics.

1971 - David Bowie released ‘Holy Holy’ as a single in the UK which failed to chart. A more frantic version of the song was recorded in 1971 for The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars but was dropped from the album, and subsequently appeared as the B-side to ‘Diamond Dogs’ in 1974.

1972, Don McLean’s “American Pie” started a four week run at number one on the singles chart.

1972, Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” made its debut on the US singles chart. The group’s third single peaked at number 15 and spent eight weeks on the chart. The song’s title is a reference to a nameless, black Labrador retriever that wandered around the Headley Grange studios during recording.

1973, The Rolling Stones announce a benefit concert for Managua, Nicaragua. The hometown of Bianca Jagger had been recently devastated by an earthquake.

1976, Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here was on the UK album chart. The album’s packaging, designed by Storm Thorgerson, featured an opaque black sleeve inside which was hidden the album artwork. Thorgerson had noted that, in the US, Roxy Music’s Country Life was sold in an opaque green cellophane sleeve – censoring the cover image – and he adopted the idea, concealing the artwork for Wish You Were Here in a dark-colored shrink-wrap.

1977, The Eagles went to number one on the album chart with Hotel California the group’s third chart topping album.

1982, The Police kicked off the North American leg of their 119-date Ghost In The Machine world tour at Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, supported by The Go-Go’s.

1983, Phil Collins had his first UK number one single with his version of “You Can’t Hurry Love,” a hit for The Supremes in 1966. Collins’ version was the first track on the very first Now That’s What I Call Music CD.

1983 - Men At Work started a four-week run at No.1 in the US singles chart with ‘Down Under’ which went on to sell over two million copies in the US alone. The song was also a No.1 in the UK, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland, and was a top 10 hit in many other countries.

1992 - Neil Young inducts Jimi Hendrix into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Yardbirds also make it into the Hall.

2008 - Ronnie Wood was recovering following an operation for a hernia after he sustained the injury during the band’s recent Bigger Bang tour. The 60-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist was told to rest for two months after the procedure.

2009 - Ozzy Osbourne’s wife, Sharon, wins a libel suit brought against British newspaper The Sun. An ‘07 article claimed that she was driving her husband “to destruction.” Sharon receives an apology and undisclosed monetary damages from The Sun.

2009 - Jon Bon Jovi performs at a New York fundraiser to help Hillary Clinton pay off the debt she amassed during her failed ‘08 presidential campaign. According to reports she’s over $6 million in the red.

2011 - Kid Rock’s birthday concert at Detroit’s Ford Field takes place. The venue is renamed (for the day) 40 Field in honor of Rock’s 40th birthday. Over 45,000 attend the show, which sells out in 19 minutes. Rock’s actual birthday is 1/17.

2016 - David Bowie Nineteen of David Bowie’s albums entered the UK album charts in the wake of his death. His new album, Blackstar, reached No.1, and in the top 40, Nothing Has Changed - The Very Best Of was at No.5, The Best Of 1969 / 1974 was at No.11, Hunky Dory, No.14, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, No.17, Best of Bowie, No.18, Aladdin Sane, No.23, The Next Day, No.25, Low No.31 and Diamond Dogs, No. 37. Thirteen Bowie tracks also entered the top 100, led by ‘Heroes’ at No.12. Also his songs were streamed more than 19 million times on services like Apple Music and Spotify.

2017 - Metallica return to China for the first time in four years, and just as on previous trips, they faced censorship. “Master Of Puppets,” “One” and “Hardwired” are not performed during the Shanghai show. “Why shouldn’t you respect their culture when you’re there as a guest and you’ve been invited to play,” asks frontman James Hetfield. “Hopefully we’ll keep coming back and they’ll realize we’re not a threat.”

Jill Munroe

Jill Munroe

I'm Jill, I've been in radio on and off for many years now and it will always be a passion of mine.

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