2011 – lyricist Jerry Leiber dies at age 78 on This Day in Rock! He Co-wrote hits like “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock” and was a key player in the birth or Rock ‘n’ Roll. Composing over 200 tunes covered by Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, BB King, The drifters and Peggy Lee, Elvis having recorded over 20 of the tunes himself.
2011 – An eight foot statue of Chuck Berry will soon be a permanent fixture on This Day in Rock! The Statue will be in a public area that acts as a gateway to a row of restaurants, shops and Blueberry Hill, the legendary nightclub where Berry still performs to this day.
Protesters opposed the statue and wanted to hold Berry, 84, accountable for crimes that he paid for long ago. While he was convicted of armed robbery as a teenager and tax evasion in 1979, the issue that they had with the rock ‘n’ roll legend/forefather mostly centered on a 1962 conviction in which Berry was found guilty of violating the Mann Act.
2011 – Forbes magazine’s annual Celebrity Power 100 names Lady Gaga the World’s most powerful Celebrity on This Day in Rock!
FORBES’ CELEBRITY POWER LIST 2011 TOP 20
1. Lady Gaga
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Justin Bieber
4. U2
5. Sir Elton John
6. Tiger Woods
7. Taylor Swift
8. Bon Jovi
9. Simon Cowell
10. Lebron James
11. Angelina Jolie
12. Katy Perry
13. Johnny Depp
14. Kobe Bryant
15. Leonardo DiCaprio
16. Black Eyed Peas
17. Donald Trump
18. Dr. Phil McGraw
19. Tyler Perry
20. Sir Paul McCartney
2011 – On This Day In Rock The White House celebrated the music of Motown Records today with a special concert featuring Motown legends Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson as well as contemporary stars such as Jamie Foxx, Sheryl Crow and Nick Jonas. President Obama held the event as part of an ongoing celebration of Black History Month. Obama referred to Motown’s music as “the soundtrack of the civil rights era.”
2011 -Lindsey Buckingham will receive the ASCAP Golden Note Award at the sixth annual ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo, to be held April 28-30 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles.
Buckingham, whose seventh solo album will be released later this year, will speak about his career as a songwriter, producer, guitarist and singer as a solo artist and as a member of Fleetwood Mac. Previously, ASCAP’s Golden Note Award has been presented to Tom Petty, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Garth Brooks and others.
Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac at the end of 1974 and appeared on the band’s breakthrough album “Fleetwood Mac,” which featured his compositions “Monday Morning,” “World Turning” and “I’m So Afraid.” On “Rumours,” his songs included “Go Your Own Way” and “Second Hand News.” He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as a member of Fleetwood Mac.
Buckingham’s solo career began in the early 1980s; his most recent release was 2008′s “Gift of Screws.”
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2011 – On this day in Rock, 50 years after the Beatles honed their skills, created Beatlemania, and changed the world… The Cavern Club is revived for a tribute today.
A 16 year old, Alex McKechnie, relates his experiences in a tribute by the BBC of the days of glory of the Famous club, and the band that Rocked the world into crying, “Please Please me”!
See the full interview: Alex McKechnie was speaking to BBC News entertainment reporter Ian Youngs.
The Cavern is celebrating the anniversary with a series of tribute events on Wednesday. A documentary about the first gig will be broadcast on ITV1 at 2240 GMT on Wednesday.
2011 – Don Kirshner,who’s guiding light led some of POP’s biggest stars from the 1950s thru the 1970s, died today of Heart failure in his home in Boca Raton, Fla at the age of 77.
An early promoter of Pop/Rock music, he propelled the many careers of of bands and artists like Pink Floyd, Kiss, ELP, the Ramones, and even Bruce Springsteen. His weekly program, “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert”, was a greatly under-rated program that was far ahead of it’s times.
His Career as a jingle writer was destined for greater things, as his then partner, Bobby Darin, can make the same claim.
We salute you Don Kirshner, for the many bands you brought to our delight!
2010 -Bret Michaels receives FOX411.COM honor, ‘Celebrity of the Year’!
For Bret Michaels, 2010 was one wild ride, and we were there with him every step of the way.
From injury to illness, from the boardroom to the bedroom, Michaels made news just about every way you can imagine in 2010, making him FOX411.com’s Celebrity of the Year.
“I am completely honored—I’m at a loss for words other than just a big thank you,” Michaels told FOX411.com in an exclusive interview. “It’s a completely awesome honor!”
In 2009, Michaels was in the headlines when the curtain came down prematurely on his nose during Poison’s Tony Awards performance. But that was nothing compared to what he’d suffer in 2010.
“Talk about roses and thorns,” said Michaels. “In 2010, it was either really good or it really sucked—there was no in-between.”
Rock of Love pictured: Brett Michaels cr: Nancy Mazzei/VH1 slideshow
From Poison to “Rock of Love.”
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In April, the “Rock of Love” star had a major health scare when doctors discovered he had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage after complaining of a headache. “Less than two weeks after (an emergency appendectomy), I was sitting on my couch—and I knew instantly,” he said. “When you have a subarachnoid hemorrhage, the vein actually explodes. There’s nothing left of it. It felt like someone shot me in the back of the head.”
Michaels’ girlfriend, Kristi Gibson, rushed him to the emergency room. “I thought, ‘This is it. I’m going to die.’ They were asking me if I had a will in place. It was painfully surreal.” Michaels spent eleven days in intensive care, followed by weeks of physical therapy.
As the live finale of “Celebrity Apprentice” approached in May, fans were concerned the bandana-bedecked rocker wouldn’t be healthy enough to tape the show. Michaels not only returned for the finale, he won—donating his prize of $640,000 to the American Diabetes Association, a disease he has suffered from since childhood. “I felt good to bring awareness to the cause. I wanted to be able to show kids that it’s not a death sentence.”
Just days later, against doctors’ advice, Michaels performed on the “American Idol” finale, watched by almost 20 million people. “When I rehearsing, they wanted me to walk down those big white steps—I told them that unless the show was going to be two hours long, I would never make it to the microphone! But what an amazing night. Everyone stood on their feet—it was a great feeling!”
In July, Michaels released his new album, “Custom Built,” which featured a duet with Miley Cyrus, “Nothing to Lose.”
“‘Nothing to Lose’ ended the first week No. 3 on the Hot AC charts, up there with Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga,” Michaels said. “It was a weird place for me to be on the charts, but I loved it!”
First Michaels had to scuttle rumors that he and Miley had a fling. “Everyone went crazy thinking there was some kind of relationship between us,” Michaels explained. “I just laughed at it. It was a bazillion percent untrue.”
But the Cyrus rumors were just starting.
By November, reports were pouring in that Michaels had an affair with Miley’s mom, Tish Cyrus, contributing to the end of her marriage to country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus.
“They were determined—somewhere along the line, I was having relationship with someone in the Cyrus family,” Michaels laughed.
Michaels immediately blasted the gossip, telling “Fox & Friends” that he had known the Cyruses “forever” and that he never had a romantic relationship with Tish. “I took pictures with Tish at ‘Good Morning America.’ Next thing I know—within an hour of that, we were in a torrid love affair. We both kind of laughed it off, but then when Tish and Billy Ray separated, then the rumors went insane. I put a statement out that it was untrue, but no one cared.”
And with his big year coming to a close, the Michaels news train refused to pull into the station.
In early December, Michaels proposed to his baby momma and on-off girlfriend of sixteen years, Kristi Gibson. The proposal was taped for the finale of Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It, which aired December 20, 2010. “When I proposed, I thought I was going to be one of those guys on YouTube who goes to get the ring and they face plant,” Michaels told FOX411.com. “But it happened really naturally, it was very in the moment. I got my fingers crossed that we’re both going to make it really work.”
Michaels’ calendar is already filled for 2011, with an operation to repair the hole in his heart scheduled for the third week of January, resuming his world tour, doing a celebrity cruise and publishing his autobiography this summer, “Roses and Thorns: The Reality of My Rock and Roll Fantasy.”
“It will make you laugh as hard as you cry,” Michaels said. “And I’ve got the pictures to prove most of it!”
One highlight of the upcoming tome: Bret losing his virginity to a “slightly older” woman in a fish hatchery, “with my motorcycle and an eight-track tape playing in the background.”
So congratulations, FOX411.com Celebrity of the Year Bret Michaels. We can’t wait to see what else you do in 2011.
2010 – Fans rejoice, The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London, made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover was given Grade II listed status. The crossing, the first of its kind to be listed, was being recognised for its “cultural and historical importance” following advice from English Heritage. The Beatles were photographed on Abbey Road in Ian Macmillan’s iconic cover shot for the 1969 album ‘Abbey Road’.
2010 – Lady Gaga Named Billboard’s Artist Of The Year
Gaga becomes just the seventh woman ever to take home the magazine’s highest honor, which she dedicates to her fans.
On Thursday, Lady Gaga capped off a tremendous 2010 by being named Billboard magazine’s Artist of the Year, becoming only the seventh woman ever to take home the honor since the magazine began handing it out in 1981.
And in true testament to her meteoric rise to the top of the charts, Gaga’s Artist of the Year nod comes just one year after she was named Billboard’s Top New Artist, making her only the third act ever — after Chris Brown and Whitney Houston — to accomplish that feat.
Gaga beat out heavyweights like Taylor Swift, Eminem and Lady Antebellum to take home Artist of the Year, which, according to Billboard, was bestowed upon her “thanks in part to the chart performance of her first two albums, The Fame and The Fame Monster, which rank at numbers 4 and 13 on the year-end Top Billboard 200 Albums … [and] four singles from that album, [which] appear on the Hot 100 Songs roundup, led by ‘Bad Romance’ at number 8.”
The other women previously named the mag’s Artist of the Year are Swift (2009), LeAnn Rimes (1997), Alanis Morissette (1996), Mariah Carey (1991), Houston (1986) and Madonna (1985).
The Billboard honor comes exactly one week after Gaga picked up six Grammy nominations, and early Friday morning, she took to her Twitter account — remember, she had been digitally dead for nearly a week — to dedicate her accolades to her fans.
“Monsters have 6 Grammy nominations and Billboard award [for] ‘Artist of the Year,’ ” she wrote. “Thank you for fighting for artistic freedom and self-invention.”
2010 – SLASH Wins Album Of The Year At Classic Rock Of Honour Awards; Says VELVET REVOLVER Have Three More Frontmen To Audition
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According to the UK’s The Sun, SLASH, ALICE COOPER, RONNIE WOOD, TONI IOMMI and JOHN PAUL JONES are among the riff-happy warriors at the Classic Rock Of Honour awards being held in London tonight.
Slash revealed VELVET REVOLVER are back up and running following former singer Scott Weiland’s (STONE TEMPLE PILOTS) walk-out.
He said: “We’ve got about three more frontmen to audition. We’ll get it sorted in the next month or so. It’s pretty exciting.”
The list of winners at the Classic Rock Of Honour awards includes:
Best New Band – THE UNION
Album Of The Year – SLASH
Band Of The Year – AC/DC
Event Of The Year – JOURNEY’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ goes Top 10
Reissue Of The Year – ROLLING STONES Exile On Main St.
Spirit Of Prog – RICK WAKEMAN
Childline Rocks Award – GLENN HUGHES
Marshall ’11′ Award – MICHAEL SCHENKER
Innovator – KILLING JOKE
Outstanding Contribution – JOHN PAUL JONES
Metal Guru – GEEZER BUTLER
Classic Album – CHEAP TRICK Live at Budokan
Tommy Vance Inspiration – RONNIE JAMES DIO
Living Legend – RUSH
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