Anniversaries

A few opening dates for Elvis Presley didn't hurt either.

The "Rocky Mountain High" singer was just 53 years old.

At a tiny club in Olympia, Washington, Grohl made his debut.

Gone were the conventional verse-chorus-bridge structures of their earliest successes.

He wasn't planning to release an album while setting up a four-track tape machine in his New Jersey bedroom.

At 21, the drummer was already a grizzled veteran of the Washington, D.C., rock scene.

He'd ultimately save the group.

He officially closed one chapter of his career and began another by taking the stage with special guest Eddie Van Halen.

Even more oddly, six years later Gene Simmons appeared on the big screen in the exact same outfit.

Heavy metal would never be the same.