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The Beatles Started Beatlemania
With The Beatles making their debut television appearance on the show People and Places, and the release of Love Me Do they shot to instant fame and everyone knew who they was. Love Me Do was released as a single with it's B-side being P.S. I Love You which helped boost their fame. -
The Beatles Release Thier Debut Album
Please Please Me was The Beatles debut album that was rush-released to capitalise the success of the singles Please Please Me, that was number 1 on most lists, and Love Me Do, which topped the US charts at number 1 for 14 weeks. -
Beatles Release What Becomes The Most ecorded Song In History
Yesterday was written by Paul McCartney and at the time didn't have much effect on thier career but it has become the most covered song in the world racking up a total of 2,200 recorded covers of this song. -
Led Zeppelin Release Their First Album
After the English rock band The Yardbirds had completely broken up and left a young The New Yardbirds, soon to be Led Zeppelin, touring playing covers of thier songs on thier return to the UK they decided they wanted to be thier own band an changed their name to Led Zeppelin and started recording their own music and realeased their debut, self-titled album Led Zeppelin that sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Led Zeppelin were one of the few metal bands to influence the creation of Grunge. -
Let It Be Is Released
Let It Be being released marked the start of the end for The Beatles because just after it was released Paul McCartney announced that he would be leaving the band and this was their last single as a complete band.
In a poll that was put to their fans Let It Be holds the number one spot on The 100 Best Beatles Songs: An Informed Fan's Guide by Stephen J. Spignesi and Michael Lewis. -
The Release of Led Zeppelin III
After releasing two very succesful albums Led Zeppelin released a third, although it hasn't sold nearly as many as it's predecessors it has still been credited at representing an important milestone in their career. This album featured some acoustic songs which is probably where Post-Grunge got it's acoustic sound from. -
Metallica Release Ride The Lightning
Metallica were already popular from there first album Kill 'Em All but with the release of this they were catapluted to being the most famous Metal band ever selling over 6 million copies in the US alone. -
Nirvana Release Thier Debut Album
Bleach was Nirvana's debut album, it was released through an indie record label. When writing this album Kurt Cobain felt pressured to create music that conformed to the grunge music style that was favored by his record label.
This worked in Nirvana's favour and defiend the Grunge genre during the 1990's -
Nickelback Formed As A Cover Band Called Village Idiots
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Nickelback formed back in the early 1990's as a cover band called Village Idiots, they would perform covers of songs released by Led Zeppelin and Metallica. -
Mettallica Release Their 16x Platinum Selling Album
This album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, 16 million of those were sold in the US alone. This album features songs such as Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters. -
Grunge Become Commercially Successful
Grunge become commercially succesful due to the release of Nirvana's Nevermind, Smells Like Teen Spirit is the first single from this album and most likely the most succesful and famous grunge song ever, it changed the face of grunge forvever and defined the genre greatly. -
Pearl Jam Release Ten
Pearl Jam's debut album which, while not an immediate success, reached number 2 on the Billboard charts by the end of 1992 and is now a diamond album. The success of this album as well as their success throughout the 90's established them as one of the "Big Four" of grunge music. -
Alice In Chains Heighten Grunge's Popularity With Dirt
Alice in Chain's breakthrough album was released to great acclaim from critics and fans alike, going 4x platinum in the U.S. Though this record doesn't contain their "signature song", "Man in the Box", it is still considered their best album and established them as one of the "Big Four" of grunge, although I would classify them as Alternative Metal. -
Soundgarden Join The Grunge Movement
Soundgarden's breakthrough album debuts at number 1 and is now certified 5x platinum. The singles "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun" become their most popular and go on to gain them Grammy awards for each. Soundgarden is also considered to be one of the "Big Four" of grunge music -
Creed Arrive On The Post-Grunge Scene With A Bang
After having pretty unknown and humble begining, Creed release their debut album My Own Prison which goes on to sell over 6 million copies in the US alone and was number 1 in three countries. -
Nickelback Signed A Record Deal With EMI and Road Runner Records
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Roadrunner A&R Ron Burman heard Nickelback's first EP and went to Vancouver to them perform live. Off the stage he was as equally impresses as he had been with their performance. Despite this it still took three months to convince his bosses to approve the signing, a desicion that marked Roadrunner's first move into mainstream rock. -
3 Doors Down Release Thier First Album
After forming in 1996 and playing at various local radio station playing an EP version of Kryptonite. They released their first studio album, The Better Life that sold over 3 million copies in the first year of release. -
Theory Of A Deadman Become the First Act To Sign With 604 Records
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Theory Of A Deadman were the first act to sign with Chad Kroger's record label in 2001. -
Nickelback Release 'How You Remind Me'
How You Remind Me became Nickelback signature song and one of the most recognisable Post-Grunge songs due to sales of over 1.3 million copies worldwide. -
Creed Release Another 6 Time Platinum Album
Things had been rocky since bassit Brian Marshall left the band in 2000, but they worked on Weathered for most of 2001. When Weathered was released with it's six singles, one of which was My Sacrific which earned the band a nomination for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal in 2003. The album was a comercial best seller and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Top 200. It remained at that spot for 8 weeks, a record that Creed shares with The Beatles. -
Seether Release Thier First Album
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Coming from nowhere but with inspiration from Nirvana, Seether released their first official album called Disclaimer. This didn't realy gain them much credibility, but they did tour continually so they could gain sales and public recognition.
They got their big break when Seether was selected to be Evanescences supporting act. During this tour Seether reworked thier acoustic ballad, Broken, as an electric ballad with guest vocals by Amy Lee from Evanescence. -
Creed Break-Up
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Things went from bad to worse for Creed after a Stapp being involved in a car accident which led to him taking various types of medication whilst on tour.
This led to a lot of contraversy, with critics saying that Stapp was so intoxicated and/or medicated that he was unable to sing the lyrics to a single Creed song.
After these event Creed were inactive for over a year, it was announced that Creed had disbanded. -
Theory Of A Deadman Release Thier Second Album And Start Touring With Shinedown
Theory Of A Deadman start gaining popularity at this point and their second album Gasoline manages to gain enough intrest for them to be asked to tour with Shinedown, then later they toured with No Address. -
Seether Get Their First Number 1 Single
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Remedy is off of Seether's third studio album Karma and Effect. Remedy was one of three singles to come from this album, Remedy reached number 1 on the US Mainstream Rock Charts, making it Seether's first number one. -
Theory Of A Deadman Release Santa Monica Featuring An Alice In Chains Cover
Santa Monica is the second single from their album Gasoline, it features Got Me Wrong by Alice In Chains clearly showing that they are an Indluence on them. -
Daughtry signed with 19 Entertainment and RCA Records
After appearing on American Idol Chris Daughtry set out to form his own band after turning down Fuel's offer to make him their lead singer.
After signing to the record comapny, Chris Daughtry and members of the label held auditions for the band Daughtry. They chose 4 memebers for the band:
Jeremy Brand 21, Guitarist (no longer in the band)
Josh Steely 36, Lead Guitarist
Josh Paul 29, Bassist who played for Suicidal Tendencies
Joey Barnes 30, Drummer who was lead singer of Suicide Darlings. -
Daughtry Release Their First Single
It's Not Over was Daughtry's first officially released single from their self-titled debut album. This single sold over 2.1 million copies in the US alone. -
Creed Re-unite
From 2004 onwards, Tremonti promised that Creed would never return. However on their website it announced that the band had reunited for a new tour and that there was plans for a new album.
