10 AUGUST
In Music History
1987 Wilson Pickett is found guilty of threatening patrons at a New Jersey bar with a loaded shotgun after a brawl inside the club. He is given two years' probation and fined $1000.
1985 While taking part in a yacht race, Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon is trapped along with five other team members after his boat capsizes. The British coast guard scrambles to rescue the stricken crew, and after repairs to its keel the vessel goes on to take third place in the 1985/86 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
1977 Aaron Kamin (lead guitarist for The Calling) is born in Studio City, California.
1975 The vocal group The Manhattan Transfer debut a summer replacement series on CBS, simply called Manhattan Transfer. The variety show runs for four weeks.
1974 Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love" hits #1 in America, becoming the first song produced solo by a woman to top the chart. Flack produced it herself under the name Rubina Flake.
1974 John Denver's album Back Home Again hits #1 in America.
1969 Maurine Dallas Watkins - author of the book Chicago - dies from lung cancer at age 72.
1968 R&B singer Michael "Biv" Bivins (of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1968 The Who release "Magic Bus."
1968 Cream's Wheels Of Fire album, which includes their classic "White Room," hits #1 in the US. The group, a volatile mixture of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, break up a short time later due largely to infighting.
1967 Guitarist Todd Nichols (of Toad the Wet Sprocket) is born in Los Angeles, California.
1964 On his way to visit two injured fans in Liverpool, England, Mick Jagger is pulled over and fined 32 pounds for speeding and driving without insurance.
1964 Rapper/singer/songwriter Neneh Cherry is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1961 INXS drummer Jon Farriss is born in Perth, Western Australia. His brothers Tim and Andrew are also in the band.
1959 Elvis Presley's "A Big Hunk O' Love" hits #1.
Stevie Wonder Hits #1 With Live Stomper
1963Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips (Part 2)" becomes the first live recording to hit #1 in the US. It holds the position for three weeks.
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2016 Chance the Rapper takes the #SoGoneChallenge, posting a video where he raps about his pregnant girlfriend (who is taking the video) over the track to Monica's 2003 hit "So Gone." It is quickly retweeted over 250,000 times and the challenge goes viral, with Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart and Dwayne Wade joining in.More
1984 Red Hot Chili Peppers release their self-titled debut album, an arduous collaboration with producer Andy Gill of the British rock band Gang of Four.More
1976 Elton John begins a record-breaking 10-night run of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1972 Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested backstage in Gothenburg, Sweden, for possession of six ounces of marijuana, which was mailed to them by someone in McCartney's office who thought they would like some weed on the road. The couple are released after paying a combined fine of $1,200.
1947 Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson is born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Safe to say he's the biggest rock star whose primary instrument is flute, as heard on classics like "Aqualung" and "Bungle In The Jungle."
1943 Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes, is born Veronica Bennett in New York City. They define the girl group sound of the '60s with hits like "Be My Baby" and "Walking in the Rain." Ronnie marries their producer, Phil Spector, in 1968, but it's a tumultuous relationship that ends in divorce in 1974.
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