Rock and Metal history, a day like today June 2
1963: The Rolling Stones played two gigs in one day. The first at Studio 51, Ken Colyer Club in Soho, London. The Stones played a regular Sunday afternoon gig at the club from 4 until 6.30 and were billed as Rhythm and Blues with The Rolling Stones. That evening they appeared at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, Surrey.
1964: The Rolling Stones made their American debut at the Lynn High School football field in Lynn, Massachusetts. Johnny Rivers and Bobby Goldsboro opened the show.
1966: The Who were in concert at the Grona Lund in Stockholm, Sweden.
1967: A historic day as the Beatles released the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the United States. The album had been released the previous day in the U.K.
David Bowie released his debut album, 'David Bowie', which failed to make the UK charts.
1973: Alice Cooper (band) had their hit single, No More Mr. Nice Guy, ranked at #25, on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
1974: KISS played Anchorage, Alaska on their first tour in support of the album #KISS.
1978: Thin Lizzy released the live double album 'Live And Dangerous'. It was recorded in Philadelphia, London and Toronto in 1977, during the tours accompanying the albums Johnny The Fox and Bad Reputation.
1980: Accept released the album "I'm A Rebel" their second album recorded in 1979 and released in 1980. Bassist Peter Baltes once again sings lead vocals on two tracks, the slower-paced songs "No Time to Lose" and "The King".
1984: Aerosmith played at the Capitol Theater in Concord, New Hampshire, the first night on their 59 date North American Back In The Saddle Tour.
Van Halen had their hit single, I’ll Wait, ranked at #13, on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
1990: "Do You Remember" by Phil Collins moved into the #1 slot on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1995: Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashed his collarbone in a cycling accident causing the band to pull out of major gigs.
1998: Deep Purple released the album "Abandon" their sixteenth studio album It was Deep Purple's second album with Steve Morse on guitar and the last one with founding member Jon Lord. The album was followed by a successful 1998/1999 world tour which brought Deep Purple to Australia for the first time in 15 years. The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan – "A Band On" – and the album was followed by the "A Band on Tour". Uniquely for a Deep Purple studio album, it features a reworking of a previously recorded song -"Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock (here re-titled "Bludsucker"). "Don't Make Me Happy" was mistakenly mastered in mono, and not amended on the final release. One of the two versions of the song released on single was, however, mastered in stereo.
2004: Rob Halford rejoins Judas Priest after 10 years, when the band kicks off their reunion tour!!
2015: On the day of its release, Win Hands Down, the new studio album from the great Armored Saint is at #1 on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart.
The Plague Within, the new studio album from Paradise Lost is ranked at #3, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Their 14th studio album was released on 1 June 2015 in Europe and 2 June 2015 in North America via Century Media Records. This album shows the band returning to their death/doom roots, mixed with elements of the gothic metal direction heard on recent albums.
Born on this day
1941: Charlie Watts, English drummer, The Rolling Stones (1965 UK & US No.1 single 'Satisfaction' and over 35 UK Top 40 singles and albums). Plus occasional gigs with Charlie Watts and his Big Band. In 2006, Watts was elected into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame.
1954: Michael Steele (real name Susan Thomas) of the Runaways and the Bangles was born in Pasadena, California.
1962: Thor Eldon Jonsson, co-founder and guitarist of the Sugarcubes, was born in Reykjavik, Iceland.
