On this day in music history…
In 1976, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. Tyler has since said that photographer Annie Leibovitz promised to get drugs for him in exchange for his cooperation. Leibovitz got her shot, but she never got any drugs for Tyler.
In 2007, The Rolling Stones played the final concert of their A Bigger Bang Tour at the O2 Arena in London. The tour had started two years earlier, and it was in support of their new album of the same name. By the tour’s end, it had set the record for the highest-grossing tour of all time, grossing over $558 million. That record has since been surpassed.
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