2021 – The Foo Fighters frontman started his career as the drummer in Nirvana and he has revealed that he had to improvise when it came to learning his instrument of choice and though his DIY kit helped him hone his playing style, it also caused problems when he finally got a real set of […]
2020 – Lady Gaga accidentally scratched Ariana Grande’s eye during rehearsals for the music video to their collaboration Rain On Me. The pop superstars teamed up for the track, which appears on the Poker Face singer’s new album Chromatica, back in May, and now fans have been given an inside look behind the scenes of […]
2020 – U.S. presidential hopeful Kanye West has made his running mate pick official by naming pastor Michelle Tidball on election paperwork in Arkansas. The Mercy hitmaker has been touting Tidball, a Christian leader from his adopted home state of Wyoming, as his sidekick in his 2020 campaign in recent weeks, but on Monday, he […]
2017 – Following in the footsteps of Giant Van Halen, James Dean Bradfield says the band doesn’t like red onions in their sandwiches. That drives us crazy Frontman from the Manic Street Preacher, James Dean Bradfield, sat down with Absolute Radio host Pete Donaldson ahead of their performance at this year’s Kendal Calling. He opened […]
2017 – DMX was charged with tax fraud in the US after allegedly hiding millions of dollars in earnings. The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested in New York. Law enforcement officers claimed he owed millions of dollars in taxes from songs and said he “went out of his way” to break […]
2017 – Roger Waters approves of Trump pig protest on This Day in Rock History! Big man, pig man, ha ha, charade you are, You well heeled big wheel, ha ha, charade you are. — Pigs (Three Different Ones) by Roger Waters The opening words from the Pink Floyd track Pigs (Three Different Ones) could […]
2017 – Katy Perry denied claims her feud with Taylor Swift insisting the record doesn’t “call out any one person”. The Chained to the Rhythm star and Shake It Off singer have long been at the center of feuding rumors, with many fans assuming that Taylor’s track Bad Blood was written about Katy. It was […]
2016 – Britney Spears pranks Jimmy Kimmel with bedroom dance. Britney Spears and some very undressed male dancers pranked Jimmy Kimmel at home this week. Britney assembled a team of dancers with a little help from Jimmy’s wife and marched them into his bedroom. This wasn’t the first time Kimmel has had a midnight prank. […]
2014 – Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was named as the greatest song of all time by NME. ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was one of the last songs written for Nirvana’s breakthrough album, ‘Nevermind’, which was released in 1991. The rest of the top five tracks were: 5: ‘Last Nite’, The Strokes, 4: ‘How Soon […]
2012 – Adele fails to register her newborn baby in England on This Day in Rock Music History! Adele and partner Simon Konecki welcomed the newborn on October 19th of this year. The couple now face charges up to $1600.00 for failing to register the baby within a 6 week period.
2012 – Lady Gaga is offered $4.8 million to star in Ben Stiller’s follow-up to Zoolander on This Day in Rock History! Zoolander 2 will be the reprisal of Ben Stiller’s role as Derek Zoolander, the hilariously funny comedy that shed new light on a very mysterious industry… possibly more than the music industry. Also […]
2012 – “Yellow Submarine” the animated Beatles movie was restored re-released today on This Day in Rock Music History! The iconic movie was carefully restored frame by frame for a May 28th DVD Release this year. The movie was originally released in 1968, and was a surreal story about a magical land called Pepperland which […]
