in rock 8/2/04
Joe Lynn Turner (ex-RAINBOW/DEEP PURPLE/YNGWIE MALMSTEEN)- August 2, 1951
Devon Glenn (ex-BUCKCHERRY) - August 3
Joey Alves (Y&T) - August 3, 1955
James Hetfield (METALLICA) - August 3, 1963
Rick Derringer - August 4, 1947
Stefan Kaufmann (U.D.O.) - August 4, 1958
Robbin Crosby (ex-RATT) - August 4, 1960 (R.I.P.)
Max Cavalera (SOULFLY/ex-SEPULTURA) - August 4, 1969
August 2, 1980: DEEP PURPLE score their third number one album in the UK with Deepest Purple.
August 2, 1993: BLACK SABBATH reunion plans are quashed when a fax arrives from Ozzy's management that he's backed out. Bassist Geezer Butler states that the three original members have tentative plans to reunite in early '94 to put together an official live Black Sabbath recording and possibly tour.
August 3, 1987: DEF LEPPARD releases their Hysteria LP.
August 4, 1975: LED ZEPPELIN's vocalist Robert Plant and his family suffer extensive injuries in a car accident delaying the groups fall U.S. tour. It would be two years before they'd return to the U.S.
August 4, 1979: LED ZEPPELIN play their first U.K. concert date in four years to 120,000 at the annual Knebworth Festival in Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire, England.
August 4, 1982: OZZY OSBOURNE marries manager Sharon Arden. **this is wrong sharon & ozzy were married on July 4th ***
August 4, 1998: VOIVOD's van has a blow out, rolling the vehicle six times into a field. Vocalist Eric Forrest suffers internal injuries, broken ribs and broken bones in his lower spine.
1996: KING'S X are dropped from Atlantic Records in a massive house-cleaning.
1996: BRUCE DICKINSON sponsors a UK fencer, James Williams, in the Olympics.
1996: Outlaw Records releases METALLICA's In Words And Music, a pre- Cliff Burton recording and interview disc from 1981.
1996: NUNO BETTENCOURT forms the project NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE).
1996: PRONG frontman Tommy Victor is tackled by a stage diver, resulting in a broken middle finger on his right hand.
1997: HAMMERFALL become the fastest selling artist in Nuclear Blast history, hitting number 38 with their Glory To The Brave album.
1997: S.O.D. frontman Billy Milano announces he will retire from performing after the band's final show on August 4th in New Jersey.
1997: Earache releases the BLACK SABBATH tribute, Masters Of Misery in North America.
1997: Ex-WARRIOR SOUL frontman Kory Clarke names his new band the SPACE AGE PLAYBOYS.
Re: in rock 8/2/04
i get them 2 x's a week on mondays' & thursdays' from bloodyknuckles, he writes them for the rock mag BW&BK which stands for bloodywords & bloodyknuckles, it's metal thanks i will post them here if you guys enjoy reading them ... myself i LOVE them
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