Today in Rock History with Chris DeCarlo

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FEBRUARY 4 

“PHOTOGRAPH,” THE LEAD SINGLE FROM DEF LEPPARD’S 1983 ALBUM PYROMANIA, MARKED THE BAND’S BREAKTHROUGH INTO MAINSTREAM U.S. ROCK RADIO AND HELPED ESTABLISH THEIR ARENA‑ROCK STARDOM.  

IN 1997 ‘THE OFFSPRING’ RETURN WITH THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM, ‘IXNAY ON THE HOMBRE’, FEATURING THE HIT SINGLE “GONE AWAY”. IT WAS THE FOLLOW-UP TO THEIR 1994 BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM ‘SMASH’.  

TODAY IN 2017 BLACK SABBATH PLAYED WHAT THEY THOUGHT WOULD BE THE FINAL SHOW OF THEIR NEARLY FIFTY-YEAR CAREER IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. THEIR FINAL SONG OF THE NIGHT, “PARANOID,” WAS STREAMED LIVE SO FANS AROUND THE WORLD COULD WITNESS THE HISTORIC MOMENT ONSTAGE.