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Today In Music History: October 10, 2008

1960 – The #1 song was “Please Mr. Custer” by Larry Verne.
1964 – The Shangri-Las released “Leader of the Pack.”
1965 – The Supremes made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1970 – Smokey Robinson and The Miracles released “Tears of a Clown.”
1978 – Steve Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith were injured when a cherry bomb was thrown onstage at a show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1979 – The city of Los Angeles declared “Fleetwood Mac Day.” The group got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1992 – Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash married Renee Suran.
1992 – The Chase by Garth Brooks debuted at #1 on the pop and country album charts.
1995 – Peter Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive II.
1997 – Jimmy Osmond and his wife Michelle Larson welcomed their second child, Zachary James. He is the 50th grandchild for George and Olive Osmond.
2001 – U2 kicked off the third leg of their Elevation tour in South Bend, Indiana. The show was webcast via RealNetworks, and a European company called Tiscali. Fans in the U.S. were able to get the live feed at U2′s official website.

Born on this day:

1924 – Ed Wood, Jr. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
1942 – Peter Coyote (Erin Brockovich, 4400, E.T.)
1946 – Ben Vereen (Pippin, Roots)
1953 – Midge Ure (Singer and Guitarist for Ultravox)
1955 – David Lee Roth (Van Halen)
1958 – Tanya Tucker (Country Singer)
1959 – Kirsty MacColl (“They Don’t Know”)
1959 – Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Studio 60)
1967 – Mike Malinin (Drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls, Minor Threat)
1979 – Mya

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Today In Music History: October 9, 2008

1959 – Bobby Darin became the youngest performer to headline the Sands Hotel’s Copa Room in Las Vegas.
1979 – Michael Jackson had the #1 song with “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.”
1980 – John Lennon released (Just Like) Starting Over on his 40th birthday. It was his first record in five years.
1984 – The #1 song was “I Just Called to Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder. The song was taken from the Gene Wilder comedy, The Woman in Red, and went on to win an Oscar for Best Original Song From A Film.
2000 – On what would have been John Lennon‘s 60th birthday, a new book collected all the interviews Lennon had done with Rolling Stone magazine called, Lennon Remembers, The Complete Rolling Stone Interviews.
2000 – The John Lennon Museum opened to the public about 30 kilometers from Tokyo.
2001 – U2 frontman Bono, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe and electronica master Moby all showed up at the second of two anti-violence benefit concerts in New York City, organized by The Beastie Boys.
2002 – The Bon Jovi album Bounce was released.
2003 – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).

Born on this day:

1940 – John Lennon
1944 – John Entwistle
1944 – Peter Tosh (reggae singer, murdered in his own home in Jamaica; died 1987)
1948 – Jackson Browne
1952 – Sharon Osbourne
1958 – Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers)
1951 – Kurt Neumann (The BoDeans)
1969 – Polly Harvey (P.J. Harvey)
1975 – Sean Lennon (Son of John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
1973 – Steve Burns (Blue’s Clues)

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Today In Music History: October 8, 2008

Born on this day:

1939 – Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee Films)
1940 – Fred Cash (Singer for The Impressions)
1943 – Chevy Chase (Comedian from SNL and the Vacation Films)
1948 – Johnny Ramone (Guitarist for The Ramones)
1949 – Sigourney Weaver (Actress in the Alien films)
1950 – Robert “Kool” Bell (Bass Player for Kool & The Gang)
1965 – C.J. Ramone (Bass Player for The Ramones)
1970 – Matt Damon (Actor-Screenwriter, Good Will Hunting, The Bourne Identity)