December 10th Born on this day in History of Music Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones (1926), Ralph Tavares - Tavares (1941), Chad Stuart - Chad and Jeremy (1941), Ace Kefford - The Move (1946), Walter Orange (1946), Gloria Loring (1942), Jessica Cleaves - The Friends of Distinction (1948), Johnny Rodriguez (1951), Dianne Schuur (1953), Jack Hues - Wang Chung (1954), Geoff Deane - Modern Romance (1954), Paul Hardcastle (1957), Helen 'Pepsi' Demacque-Crockett of Pepsi and Shirlie (1958), Wolf Hoffman - Accept (1959), Nia Peebles (1961), Joseph Mascis - Dinosaur Jr (1965), Brian Molko - Placebo (1972), Puff Johnson (1972), Meg White - The White Stripes (1974)
Chart News
1964 The Beatles at No.1 on the UK chart with 'I Feel Fine'
1966 The Beach Boys at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Good Vibrations'
1966 The Beach Boys at No.1 in Australia with 'Good Vibrations'
1983 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Say Say Say'
1983 'Now That's What I Call Music' (volume 1) compilation album went to No.1 on the UK album chart
1984 Madonna at No.1 in Australia with 'Like a Virgin'
1988 Chicago at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Look Away'
1988 Cliff Richard at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Mistletoe And Wine.'
1994 East 17 at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Stay Another Day'
1994 Sheryl Crow at No.1 in Australia with 'All I Wanna Do'
1994 Kenny G at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Miracles - The Holiday Album'
2000 Eminem at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Stan'
2011 The X Factor Finalists 2011 at No.1 in the UK with Wishing on a Star
2015 Justin Bieber at No.1 in the UK with Love Yourself
2016 Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane at No.1 in the US with Black Beatles
Gig News
1961 James Brown, The Famous Flames, Sugar Pie DeSanto and The Brownies appeared at The Evergreen Ballroom, Lacey, Washington
1961 The Beatles appeared at Hambleton Hall, Huyton in Liverpool
1965 Bob Dylan appeared at the Community Concourse, San Diego, California
1967 The Byrds played at the Whisky-a-go-go, Hollywood, California.
1968 Led Zeppelin appeared at the Marquee Club, London
1971 Frank Zappa played at London's Rainbow Theatre but was pushed off stage by jealous boyfriend Trevor Howell. Zappa broke one of his legs and suffered a fractured skull
1976 Billy Idol's Generation X made their live debut at The Central College Of Art, London
1987 New Order supported by Primal Scream appeared at Wembley Arena, London
1988 Metallica played at Cow Place in San Francisco, California
2007 Led Zeppelin played their first concert in 19 years, at London's 02 arena.
Music News
1967 Otis Redding was killed in a plane crash aged 26 along with members from the The Bar-Kays, Jimmy King, Ron Caldwell, Phalin Jones and Carl Cunningham
1999 Rick Danko, founding member of The Band died
2021 Michael Nesmith of The Monkees died