... and more August 10 birthdays –
Jack Haley (1898) – actor/singer ("If I Only Had A Heart").
Claude Thornhill (1908) – pianist/composer ("Snowfall").
Clarence "Leo" Fender (1909) – guitar maker.
Jimmy Martin (1927) – bluegrass musician, "King of Bluegrass."
Sal Cuomo (1939) – The Regents.
Michael "Tunes" Antunes (`1940) – saxophonist for John Cafferty and
The Beaver Brown Band.
James Griffin (1943) – Bread.
Larry Larden (1945) – guitarist/vocalist for Every Mother's Son.
Mick Clarke (1946) – bassist/vocalist for The Rubettes.
Patti Austin (1950) – R&B/jazz singer.
Jon Farris (1961) – drummer for INXS.
Todd Nichols (1967) – guitarist for Toad The Wet Sprocket.
August 10 R.I.P. –
David Rogers (1993) – Age 57. Country music singer (“Loving You Has
Changed My Life”).
Barbara George (2006) – Age 65. R&B singer ("I Know (You Don't Love Me
No More)").
Isaac Hayes (2008) – stroke. Age 65.
Billy Grammer (2011) – Age 85. Country music singer/guitarist (“Gotta
Travel On”).
August 10 album releases –
Elvis Presley – Elvis For Everyone (1965)
Ten Years After – Undead (1968) U.S.
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Weasels Ripped My Flesh
(1970)
Michael Jackson – Off The Wall (1979)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984)
Billy Joel – River Of Dreams (1993)
August 10 events –
1951 – Hank Williams records “Half As Much.”
1959 – The four male members of The Platters are arrested in
Cincinnati and charged with “aiding and abetting prostitution,
lewdness, and assignation" after local police find the singers in a
Sheraton Gibson Hotel room entertaining four scantily-clad 19-year old
girls, three of them white.
1963 – The Browns join the Grand Ole Opry.
1964 – Mick Jagger is pulled over for speeding, and is also charged
with driving without insurance, supposedly on his way to visit some
injured fans.
1964 – Vee-Jay Records issues four Beatles singles on their Oldies 45
subsidiary label: “Do You Want To Know A Secret” b/w “Thank You Girl,”
“Please Please Me” b/w “From Me To You,” “Love Me Do” b/w “P.S. I Love
You” and “Twist And Shout” b/w “There’s A Place.”
1970 – Jim Morrison goes on trial in Miami for allegedly exposing
himself on stage there in March 1969.
1975 – The summer replacement series, The Manhattan Transfer Show,
debuts on CBS.
1976 – Elton John plays the first of 10 sold-out shows at Madison
Square Garden.
1985 – Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon participates in the Fastnet
yacht race. Bad weather capsizes his yacht, trapping him and 24 other
crew members underwater in the hull of the boat for 20 minutes until
the Royal National Lifeboat Institution rescues them.
1985 – Michael Jackson buys ATV Music publishing company, which
includes 213 Beatles songs, for $47 million.
1987 – In a New Jersey courtroom, Wilson Pickett is found guilty of
threatening patrons in a New Jersey bar with a loaded shotgun after a
fight inside the club.
1991 – Vince Gill joins the Grand Ole Opry.
1999 – Rhythm guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthur quits Oasis.
2002 – Lisa Marie Presley marries actor Nicholas Cage. The marriage
lasts four months.
2004 – Rolling Stone Charlie Watts confirms that he is undergoing
treatment for throat cancer.
2007 – The jurors in the Phil Spector murder trial tour his Alhambra
mansion in an attempt to re-create the “murder” scene.
2007 – Tony Wilson, founder and manager of The Haçienda nightclub, and
one of the five co-founders of Factory Records, dies from a heart
attack in London at 57 years old.
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Events confirmation --
1972 – Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested backstage in Gothenburg,
Sweden, for possession of marijuana.
