Pearl Jam has continued to lean on special guest drummers while Matt Cameron is out due to COVID. The latest was an 18-year-old high school student, who came away with the story of a lifetime after getting an opportunity to play with the band onstage in front of a massive audience.
In the History of Rock in 1969 – Pete Townshend of The Who spent a night in jail in New York City after being charged with assault. The group was performing at the Fillmore East when a fire broke out at a supermarket next door. A plainclothes policeman leapt onto the stage to warn the crowd and Townshend, thinking the cop was a member of the audience, booted him off.
In 1970 – Randy Bachman quits The Guess Who. He would later form Bachman-Turner Overdrive and enjoy six Billboard Top 40 hits over the next six years.
And in 1987 – U2 started a three-week run at number 1 on the US singles chart ‘With Or Without You’, the group’s first US number 1.