This Week On The Charts 9/6/1980: The Jam hit #1 in the UK with “Start”. #TheJam #RockHonorRoll #PaulWeller #RickBuckler #BruceFoxton

In The Rock 9/6/1994: Sugar releases LP number 2, ‘File Under: Easy Listening’ in the states. It’s also Mould and co’s final album. It hits the top 19 in the UK, peaks at number 50 in the US. #Sugar #BobMould #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 9/6/1975: 3 bad brothers from Texas hit #20 on the singles chart with “Tush”. #ZZTop #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 9/5/2000: NYC Garage Rock visionaries Mooney Suzuki release their debut album, ‘People Get Ready’. And Rock and roll is saved.
Re-issued for its 25th anniversary with an incredible live set from 1999. Thanks @yeprock
#MooneySuzuki #RockHonorRoll #SammyJamesJr

In The Rock 9/5/1965: The Rolling Stones record “Get Off Of My Cloud'”at RCA studios in Hollywood, California. The tune will peak at No.1 in the US and the UK. #rollingstones #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 9/5/1981: Stevie Nicks hits #1 on the album chart with ‘Bella Donna’, and #3 on the singles chart with “Stop Draggin My Heart Around”. #StevieNicks #Heartbreakers #TomPetty #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 9/5/1989: Soundgarden release ‘Louder Than Love’, their major label debut. As grunge ascended, SG accidentally crossed over from winking at the hard rock headbangers to leading the rock brigade. #Soundgarden #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 9/5/1981: Foreigner hit #4 with “Urgent”, featuring sax player Mark Rivera. The sax solo? Courtesy of Jr. Walker. Yes - THAT Jr. Walker. #Foreigner #JrWalker #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 9/5/1980: ‘Blizzard of Oz’ hits record racks in the IK. With the brilliant guitar work of Randy Rhoads, Ozzy Osbourne finds his career relaunched, and together they redefine metal and hard rock for the 80s. #Ozzy #RandyRhoads #RockHonorRoll US 3/27/1981

This Week On The Charts 9/5/1998: Manic Street Preachers score their first UK No.1 single with “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”, the group’s 19th charting hit. #MSP #ManicStreetPreachers #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 9/5/1982: The US Festival wraps with Day 3, sets including “Breakfast with the Grateful Dead,” Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band, Jackson Browne & Fleetwood Mac. 450K fans attended. #USFestival #RockHonorRoll

Born In The Rock 9/5/1946: Farrokh Bulsara, better known as the late, great Freddie Mercury, founder, lead vocalist and visionary for Queen. #FreddieMercury #Queen #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 9/5/1964: Eric Burdon And The Animals hit #1 with blues standard “House of the Rising Sun”. #TheAnimals #RockHonorRoll #EricBurdon

In The Rock 9/4/1976: The Sex Pistols make their television debut on the Manchester-based, Granada TV late-night programme, ‘So It Goes’. They performed “Anarchy In The U.K.” with such fury, it blows viewers’ minds. #SexPistols #AnarchyInTheUK #GranadaTV #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to the late, great Freddie King, blues guitarist who married Texas and Chicago blues, took it to Federal Records and struck gold. Born 9/3/1934. #FreddyKing #BluesIsKing #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 9/3/1992: Bob Mould and his new band, Sugar, drop their debut release ‘Copper Blue’. It’s voted album of the year by NME. And it’s instant proof on concept. #Sugar #BobMould #RockHonorRoll

Happy birthday to the mighty Jonsey himself, Steve Jones, founder and guitarist of The Sex Pistols, solo artist, founding member of Chequered Past, radio host, rabble rouser, truth teller and more, born in the rock 9/3/1955 in Sheppard’s Bush, London, UK. #SteveJones #SexPistols #RockHonorRoll

Happy birthday to the great Al Jardine, fullback to Brain Wilson’s quarterback on the high school team, and in the Beach Boys, guitarist, vocalist, solo artist, born in Lima, Ohio of all places, 9/3/1942. #BeachBoys #AlJardine #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 9/3/1994: John Mellencamp & Me’shell Ndegeocello peak at #3 on the Hot 100 Singles Chart with Van Morrison’s “Wild Night”. #JohnMellencamp #MeshellNdegeocello #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 9/3/2002: The Rolling Stones kick off their 40th anniversary tour in Boston in support of their compilation album ‘Forty Licks’. Wait, their 40th anniversary was like 25 years ago?!?! #RollingStones #LoveThatDirtyWater #RockHonorRoll