This Week On The Charts 10/10/1981: The Police hit No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Ghost In The Machine’, the band’s fourth record, and third LP to top the charts. #ThePolice #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/10/1995: Green Day’s ‘Insomniac’, hits record stores like a Mack truck. It sells over 8 million copies. #GreenDay #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/10/1978: The Cars release single number two, “My Best Friend’s Girl”. It breaks into the top 40 in the states, and Elliot Easton surprises listeners with that indelible, ersatz rockabilly riff. #TheCars #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/9/1974: Rush make their American television debut on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert. They won’t perform on American TV again until The Colbert Report in 2008. #Rush #DonKirschnersRockConcert #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to Jackson Browne, singer, songwriter, solo artist, activist and more - born 10/9/1948. #JacksonBrowne #RockHonorRoll photo by Ari Strauss.

In The Rock 10/9/1982: The Clash are the musical guest on on SNL; they perform “Straight to Hell” & “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” It’s their biggest appearance on American television. #TheClash #RockHonorRoll #SNL

Born In The Rock 10/9/1940: The late, great John Winston Lennon-Ono, human, husband, father, solo artist, poet, writer, singer, Beatle. Gone decades before his time. #JohnLennon #Beatles #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 10/9/1961: Ray Charles tops the singles chart with “Hit The Road Jack” where it stays for two weeks. #RayCharles #RockHonorRoll

Born In The Rock 10/9/1944: The Ox, the late, great John Entwistle, founding bass player for The Who, solo artist, singer, songwriter, gone far too soon. #JohnEntwistle #TheWho #TheOx #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/9/1958: Eddie Cochran records “C’mon Everybody”, his final Top 40 hit. The song is later covered by Led Zeppelin, Sid Vicious and Humble Pie. #EddieCochran #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to Polly Jean “PJ” Harvey, MBE, singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, born in the rock 10/9/1969. #PJHarvey #RockHonorRoll photo: Mika Väisänen

Born In The Rock 10/8/1948: The late, great Johnny Ramone, born unto the Cummings household on Long Island, NY. Nobody played guitar like Johnny - no frills, no solos, just a loud, fast and precise buzz saw. photo by masao nakagami #JohnnyRamone #TheRamones #Ramones #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 10/8/1988: Def Leppard hit #1 on the Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Love Bites”, their fifth single off of Hysteria. #DefLeppard #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/8/1979: Fleetwood Mac release their first double album, ‘Tusk’ the follow-up to Rumours. They released it weeks ahead of schedule, after songs mysteriously began popping up on the radio. #FleetwoodMac #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/8/1976: EMI briefly signs The Sex Pistols, ultimately inspiring one of their greatest songs. #SexPistols #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/8/1965: The Florescents and The exciting “Castiles”, featuring a young fella singing named Bruce Springsteen, play the I.B. Club in Howell, New Jersey. Casually dressed people rejoice! #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 10/8/1988: Metallica peak at #6 on the Top 200 Album Chart with ‘…And Justice for All’, their first album to reach the top ten in the U.S. It sells over eight million copies in the U.S. #Metallica #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 10/8/1988: Cheap Trick peak at number four on the Hot 100 Singles Chart with their cover of “Don’t Be Cruel”. #CheapTrick #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/8/1991: Soundgarden release ‘Badmotorfinger’, and the grunge arms race explodes. #Soundgarden #GrungeCity #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 10/7/1983: John Cougar Melloncamp’s ‘Uh-Huh’ hits the racks. Melloncamp rules Mtv and the radio airwaves for the next year, 4 tracks from this record are still played daily on rock radio 40+ years later. #JohnMelloncamp #RockHonorRoll