On 25 November 1996, a statue of Mercury was unveiled in Montreux overlooking Lake Geneva , almost five years to the day since his death.
On 30 October 1996 Soda Stereo became the first Latin American band to transmit a live concert via the Internet , through the Argentine radio program Cuál Es? (Which Is It?). The show was conducted by Mario Pergolini on Argentina Rock & Pop radio. The band played live from the…
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His Infernal Majesty continued to record several more demos, sending them to Nuclear Blast , Roadrunner and Spinefarm Records , among others, all of whom passed on the band. Eventually they were signed to BMG by production manager Asko Kallonen, who was impressed by the band’s cover of Chris Isaak…
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Fashion Nugget , Cake’s second album, was released on 17 September 1996. Like Motorcade , it was produced by the band and released on Capricorn Records. Cake considered the album more professionally produced than Motorcade , despite references to its “raw” sound, and the reception was again generally positive; critics…
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Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland met during their first week at University College London , in September 1996.
After the Lollapalooza tour’s conclusion, the Ramones played their final show on August 6, 1996, at the Palace in Hollywood . A recording of the concert was later released on video and CD as We’re Outta Here! . In addition to a reappearance by Dee Dee, the show featured several…
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Plans for a subsequent tour ended when Perry, troubled by pain while hiking in Hawaii on a 10-day break in August 1996, discovered he had a degenerative bone condition and could not perform without hip-replacement surgery, which for some time he declined to undergo, later admitting he had other physical…
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The group toured in the summer of 1995 with Cosmo and Delp combining vocals. By that time, drummer Huffman had been replaced by Curly Smith, who was previously with Jo Jo Gunne . Following the conclusion of the Livin’ For You tour in 1995, Scholz announced that a greatest-hits album…
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On June 28, the Kiss Alive/Worldwide Tour began at Tiger Stadium in Detroit in front of a sold-out crowd of 39,867 fans.
The first public concert featuring the newly reunited Kiss was an hour-long warm-up show on June 15 for the annual KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, California , during which the band nearly ignited the stage of the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre .