Week of August 14th

Take a look back at this week in Rock & Roll History

Episode Transcript

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What happened this week in rock androll history? Let's find out? It's
the rock OMANAC on iHeartRadio. What'sgoing on? Rock and roll overs?
It'sandy West. Let's get it started. We kick it off. In nineteen
sixty two, Pete Best has firedas the drummer for the Beatles, replaced
by Ringo Star. This week innineteen sixty eight, the Doors third album,
Waiting for the Sun, hits numberone in America thanks to the hit

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Hello I Love You. They've recordedthe song after scrapping plants to put a
Jim Morrison poetry piece called Celebration ofthe Lizard on the entire first side.
This week in nineteen eighty at theToledo Speedway Jam two in Toledo, ohio
Zz top headline the show with ACDC, Sammy Hagar and Humble Pie on the
undercart. Also advertised on the postereight hundred kegs of beer. The drinking

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age was only eighteen at the time. It's the last time ACDC is a
support act until two thousand and three, when they open for The Stones.
This week in nineteen eighty seven,Metallica play a secret show at the one
hundred Club in London. Days later, they played Donnington Park at Castle Donnington
as part of the massive Monsters ofRock festival, headline by bon Jovi.

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This Week. In nineteen ninety five, Garbage released their self titled debut album,
adding a much needed female voice tothe alternative rock scene. Hits from
the album include Queer and This I'mO, My Happy Win It and This
Week. In twenty eighteen, rIAA certifies The Eagles their greatest hits nineteen
seventy one through nineteen seventy five atthirty eight million units, making it the

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best selling album of all time inAmerica, besting Michael Jackson's Thriller by about
five million worldwide, though Thriller isby far the biggest selling album. And
that's when went down for Your RockOmanac on iHeartRadio