10 December

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10 DECEMBER

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2023 TikTok stages their first live music event with a five-hour concert in Mesa, Arizona, featuring Charlie Puth, Cardi B, Peso Pluma and a slate of emerging artists. 17,000 phone-wielding fans attend the sold-out show, with over 9 million more watching online.

2015 Janis Joplin's psychedelic-painted Porsche sells for $1.76 million at auction.More

2010 Michael Jackson's first posthumous album, Michael, is released.

2006 A demo called KO At Home by Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O is accidentally leaked on the internet. The recording was meant to be a gift to friend Dave Sitek from TV on the Radio but it was stolen from Sitek's suitcase. Karen O shrugged off the leak, saying "s--t happens."

2005 Just six monts after topping the chart with Mezmerize, System Of A Down's album Hypnotize goes to #1 on America, giving them two #1 albums in the same calendar year.

2003 Bill Deal (frontman for The Rhondels) dies at age 59. Known for the 1969 hit singles "I've Been Hurt," "What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am," and "May I."

1999 Rick Danko (bassist for The Band) dies of heart failure in his sleep in Marbletown, New York, at age 56.

1997 Olivia Newton-John causes trouble for Murphy Brown on the episode "I Hear A Symphony."

1996 Country singer Faron Young dies a day after shooting himself, possibly due to his failing health, at age 64.

1995 During a recording session, Fat Boys member Darren Robinson, known as "The Human Beatbox," dies of a heart attack at age 28.

1991 Alan Freed, the disc jockey who coined the phrase "rock and roll," is posthumously awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

1986 Prince goes to a Bonnie Raitt concert at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles. Impressed, he invites her to his home studio in Minnesota where they work on some songs together, but nothing comes of it.

1985 Three Dog Night's Danny Hutton and Cory Wells fire third vocalist Chuck Negron.

1983 Tina Turner's first solo hit, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," charts at #6 in the UK as her comeback gets going.

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Dave Mustaine Reunites With Metallica

2011

At the last of four 30th anniversary concerts at The Filmore in San Francisco, Metallica are joined on stage by two original members: bass player Ron McGovney and guitarist Dave Mustaine.

McGovney left Metallica in 1982, replaced by Cliff Burton in a relatively amicable split - amicable compared to Mustaine's departure, which happened when his bandmates woke him up, told him he was fired, and put him on a bus from New York to his home in California, a four-day trip where he cooked up the idea for a new band, Megadeth. His replacement, Kirk Hammett, is more adept at handling the band dynamic, meaning he cedes power to the often dysfunctional duo of James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich while asserting some creative authority. The concerts are a celebration of Metallica's history, so McGovney and Mustaine are welcomed back with open arms. Mustaine joins for the last five songs, all of which he had a hand in before he left: "Phantom Lord" "Jump in the Fire" "Metal Militia" "Hit The Lights" "Seek and Destroy" McGovney plays on the last two tracks. Over the course of the four concerts, special guests include Black Sabbath members Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler, Rob Halford, Anthrax members John Bush and Scott Ian, Jerry Cantrell, Kid Rock and Saxon member Biff Byford.

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