On August 10th in Rock and Roll history: in 1964 Mick Jagger was found guilty of driving without insurance and breaking the speed limit. He was fined $50; >>>> in 1968 Cream reached the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the first and only time with Wheels of Fire which spent four weeks on top; >>>> in 1972 after a Wings concert in Gothenburg, Sweden, Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested and fined $1,300 for marijuana possession; >>>> in 1976 Elton John began the first of seven sold out concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where he set a then-record gate of $1.25 million for the seven concerts; >>>> in 1982 Frank Zappa & his daughter Moon Unit Zappa appeared on Late Night with David Letterman & quickly recited “Valley Girl”; >>>> in 1985 over nine months after its initial release, Reckless by Bryan Adams reached number one on the Billboard 200 album chart where it would stay for two weeks. This was Adams’ first and only number one album in the U.S.; >>>> in 1992 Def Leppard kicked off the North American leg of their Seven Day Weekend Tour in support of Adrenalize at Madison Square Garden; >>>> in 1995 Van Halen was the musical guest on The Late Show with David Letterman where they performed “Not Enough”; >>>> and in 2002 Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie married for the third time, marrying actor Nicolas Cage. They would divorce 108 days later & their divorce proceedings lasted longer than their marriage. The Rock and Roll celebrity birthday persons for August 10th are the late and great Leo Fender (Clarence Leonidas Fender) born in 1909 and Ian Anderson-singer for Jethro Tull born in 1947. If you aren’t familiar with Leo Fender, in addition to being the founder of Fender Instruments, he was an inventor and his number one invention was the electric bass guitar invented and first released in 1951 as the Fender Precision bass. This radically changed possibilities in music with replacing the standup bass in modern music. After Leo sold Fender Instruments to CBS in January 1965 and at the conclusion of his No-Compete contract, in the early 70’s he then founded Music Man instruments now known as Ernie Ball / Music Man. Leo along with his engineer and long term friend George Fullerton founded G & L Musical Products. Leo died March 21, 1991 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 04:37:11 +0000
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