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"The Rolling Stones crack the U.K. Top 10 for the first time with a cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not A Fade Away.” 1964

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Today In Rock 2/22

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Melissa Etheridge performs "Bring Me Some Water" at the 31st Grammy Awards in L.A. Otherwise, this year’s show sucks up and down the line. But the topper comes when Jethro Tull beats out Metallica for the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental trophy. 1989

1950's Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” cracks the Top 10. It’s the first Elvis song to do so. 1956
1960's

The Beatles form their Northern Music Publishing Company. Stock is sold and the company later becomes the property of Michael Jackson. 1963

The Beatles depart for the Bahamas to begin filming their second movie “Help!” 1965

The Beatles finish work on “A Day In The Life.” 1967

Bradley James Nowell, the frontman for Sublime, is born in Long Beach, CA. 1968

Genesis releases their first single “The Silent Sun.” Vocalist Peter Gabriel, keyboardist Tony Banks and guitarist Mike Rutherford are there at the beginning. 1968

T-Rex begins their tour of England. The opening act is David Bowie doing mime. Think tickets went fast? 1969
1970's What a coincidence. John Lennon’s “#9 Dream” peaks at #9. 1975

Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols) and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen are arrested at NY’s Chelsea Hotel for drug possession. 1978

The Police dye their hair blonde for a Wrigley Gum commercial. The new hair color becomes part of the group’s look. 1978

Beer in the sky keeps on pouring. Rolling Stone reports that Budweiser has developed an advertising relationship with Journey. Banners, T-shirts and even the “Bud stage” soon become concert mainstays. 1979

1980's “Listen Like Thieves” from INXS enters the LP charts. 1986

1990's Bonnie Raitt is named MusiCares Person of the Year at the foundation’s dinner in New York. 1992

Offspring’s “Ixnay On The Hombre” enters the U.S. album chart coming in at #9. 1997
2000's Wes Scantlin is arrested for disorderly conduct and other infractions in Toledo, OH, after showing up to a Puddle Of Mudd concert intoxicated. The frontman heckles and abuses concertgoers when his bandmates walk offstage after only four songs. 2004

Children of the Lord. An online post by KoRn announces that founding guitarist Brian "Head" Welch has left the band after 12 years. The statement adds that Welch "has chosen Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end." However, Welch later says that as a single parent, he left to spend more time with his daughter. 2005

Blink-182 announce they are going on an indefinite hiatus – which lasts four years. 2005

Van Morrison is honored for his contributions to movie music at the US-Ireland Alliance's second annual Oscar Wilde: Honoring Irish Writing in Film pre-Academy Awards bash in L.A. A collection of his songs used in films was released the previous week. 2007

Peter Frampton donates the guitar he used to compose both "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Show Me The Way" to the Musicians Hall Of Fame in Nashville. 2007

Hometown boy, Sammy Hagar, participates in a variety of NASCAR-related events, including a performance, at the California Speedway (Fontana, CA), in track's FanZone section. 2007

Puddle Of Mudd announce they have recruited drummer Ryan Yerdon to replace Greg Upchurch, who quit the band in '05 to join 3 Doors Down. 2007

Ian Wallace, session drummer and one-time member of King Crimson, succumbs to cancer in L.A. at age 60. Wallace worked with a wide range of artists including Bob Dylan, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, Peter Frampton, Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon and Crosby, Stills & Nash. 2007

Styx singer-guitarist Tommy Shaw is one of the inductees into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Shaw performs at a gala event in his hometown of Montgomery. 2008
2010's AC/DC, on their Black Ice tour, break U2’s record for playing before the largest audience in Australia. AC/DC sells 212,729 tickets for three shows at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney. The total tops U2 by less than 1,000. 2010

Exactly a year later, “Round And Round: The Forgotten Tales,” a collection of Bon Scott’s pre-AC/DC tracks, is released. 2011

Johnny Cash’s box set “Bootlegs 2: From Memphis To Hollywood,” drops. The collection has rare and unreleased recordings spanning the ‘50’s and ‘60s. 2011

The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde writes a letter to the Country group Lady Antebellum asking them to take a stand for animal rights when they perform at a KFC franchisee's meeting in San Diego two weeks later. The letter is sent to the group through PETA, and it asks them to tell KFC to adopt less cruel slaughter practices as recommended by the restaurant chain's own advisory board. "My friends at PETA and I are hoping that you will use your unique position to appeal to the company,” writes Hynde. “With your influential public platform, KFC might not so easily turn a deaf ear to you." 2011

Tommy Lee settles his court battle with former assistant Michael “Tony” Sullivan who accused the Motley Crue drummer of being "the boss from hell." Lee is ordered to pay over $400K to Sullivan and deliver “a public apology.” 2012

Guitarist Billy Strange, who worked with Elvis Presley (“A Little Less Conversation”), the Beach Boys'(the “Pet Sounds” album), Rick Nelson, the Everly Brothers and Phil Spector, dies in Nashville at age 81. Strange, a member of the Wrecking Crew, a top tier L.A. session group, was also in the Musicians Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. 2012

AC/DC: The Early Years with Bon Scott, written by Rock biography writer Neil Daniels, is on bookshelves. It charts the group’s formation in ‘73 to the “Back In Black” album with vocalist Brian Johnson, who joined after Scott's drinking binge death in ’80. 2013

Styx sues A&M Records over what they claim were deceptive accounting practices that deprived the band of royalties. The suit contends that, "for every one dollar the band has received from A&M they should have been paid anywhere from two to five dollars." 2013