Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: January 18
1974
Britain’s glam superstars invade Cleveland’s Allen Theater with the help of Iggy Pop.Poster courtesy of Raw Sugar Studio
The owners of Studio 54 in New York get fined $20,000 for tax evasion and three and a half years in prison.
The Plasmatics’ Wendy O. Williams gets arrested in Milwaukee. Cops bust Williams for simulating sex with a sledgehammer and then resisting arrest. The charges are eventually dropped but she gets popped again in Cleveland when she plays the Agora.
1982
Having played the Agora with the Runaways, Joan Jett returns with a much harder sound to the same stage.
Poster courtesy of Raw Sugar Studio
1996
Eagles co-founder Glen Frey dies from complications including rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia after intestinal surgery. His wife doesn’t buy the doctor’s claim of the cause of death.
