Friday, June 13, 2014

June 13, 2014

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
THE CARS...Candy-O
Released: 35 years ago today, June 13, 1979
Highest Chart Position: #3 U.S. Billboard Album Charts
Track Highlights: It's All I Can Do, Let's Go
(vinyl, CD, Allmusic review)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JUNE 13
Paul deLisle of Smash Mouth is 51; Rivers Cuomo of Weezer is 44;

ON THIS DATE
1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1995 Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette is released
2006 Jonathan Davis of KoRn is released from a hospital in London after being treated for a blood disorder. That same day Elliot Easton of the Cars has surgery on his collarbone that broke a week earlier after a fall on a tour bus
2006 One-X by Three Days Grace is released
2008 Scott Weiland and Eric Kretz of the Stone Temple Pilots are sued by Atlantic Records for allegedly threatening to prematurely end their recording contract with the label. That same day Kid Rock is admitted to a hospital in Nottingham for stomach cramps and dehydration
2011 Police in England arrested two men near Joss Stone's home in Cullompton, Mid Devon, who had plans to rob and kill her

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