This Day in Rock & Roll History

Today is October 31, 2003

42 years ago		U2 Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. is born. (1961)
37 years ago		Adam Horovitz a.k.a. King Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys is born. (1966)
33 years ago		Former Mamas and the Papas singer Michelle Phillips marries actor Dennis Hopper. They divorce 8 days later. (1970)
29 years ago		The Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock N' Roll," their last album with guitarist Mick Taylor, turns gold. It's their fourth straight Number One album. (1974)
28 years ago		The Marshall Tucker Band performs at the Fox Theater in Atlanta for a benefit show for presidential candidate and former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. The president of Capricorn Records, Phil Walden, sponsors this concert and ultimately, many more with his other acts including the Allman Brothers. (1975)
22 years ago		Peabo Bryson's "Let the Feeling Flow" enters the soul chart, where in its twenty weeks on the charts, it climbs up to number six. (1981)
15 years ago		Singer Debbie Gibson holds a seance at her Halloween party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicious. (1988)
10 years ago		Rapper Tupac Shakur is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta policemen during a late night argument. Shakur was shot and killed two years later in Las Vegas.
10 years ago		Actor River Phoenix dies after collapsing outside The Viper Room on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. (1993)
5 years ago		KISS begin their Psycho Circus tour at Dodger Stadium. Video monitors broadcast the show in 3-D. (1998)