April 10th
1976 “Frampton Comes Alive!” is the #1 album in the U.S.
With the onslaught of disco and not much happening in Rock, “Frampton Comes Alive!” becomes the best-selling double album at the time with the songs “Show Me The Way,” “Baby, I Love Your Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do.” It sells over 25-million copies.
2014 Nirvana enters the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
KISS, with original members fighting amongst themselves and refusing to perform together, Peter Gabriel and Linda Ronstadt are also inducted.
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1959 A major Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent fan, Brian Setzer is born in Massapequa, Long Island, NY. Setzer fronts the Stray Cats and The Brian Setzer Orchestra in addition to a solo career.
1963 Ratt guitarist, Warren DeMartini, enters the world.
1964 “The Beatles Second Album” is out. The set is mostly covers but does hold “She Loves You.” The album subsequently knocks “Meet The Beatles!” from the #1 spot. It’s the first time an act replaces itself at #1 on the U.S. album chart.
1970 Having quit The Beatles the day before, Paul McCartney makes it official with a public announcement. In a statement, McCartney says he doesn’t know “whether the break will be temporary or permanent.” Ultimately, this only gets him blamed for breaking up the band.
1970 Staind’s Mike Mushok has a birthday. The lead guitarist is from Ludlow, MA.
1975 Chris Carrabba, singer/guitarist for Dashboard Confessional, has a birthday.
1982 Iron Maiden’s third album, “Number Of The Beast,” enters the U.K. chart at #1.
1993 Aerosmith take “Livin’ On The Edge” to #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart.
1999 Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin plays his first show with Smashing Pumpkins since being re-instated. He was kicked out three years earlier due to drug problems.
2007 Fans of the late, great Doors singer, Jim Morrison, petition Florida governor Charlie Crist to pardon the Lizard King who was convicted of exposing himself (among other charges) during the infamous Miami concert in ’70. The case was on appeal when Morrison died in Paris a year later. Surprisingly, Crist claims he’s seriously considering a pardon, which he eventually grants.
2010 Mired in a sex abuse scandal that won’t go away, the Vatican tries to change the topic by focusing on The Beatles. The Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano publishes their first-ever statement praising the group. The article acknowledges that The Beatles took drugs and lived an “uninhibited lifestyle,” but contends they also wrote powerful songs that “changed forever pop music.” To top it off, the paper pretty much dismisses John Lennon’s infamous “we’re bigger than Christ” statement (made forty-four years earlier) as a non-issue.
2012 Bonnie Raitt releases her sixteenth studio album, “Slipstream.” It’s her first album to enter Billboard 200‘s Top 10 since “Nick Of Time” in ’94.
2021 “Waiting On A War” by the Foo Fighters is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart.
2024 Europe (“The Final Countdown”) is awarded the Music Export Prize for long-standing contributions to Swedish music exports by Johan Forssell, the Swedish minister for international development cooperation and foreign trade. “Swedish music exports bring in billions and the industry contributes to job opportunities, growth and spreading a positive image of Sweden abroad,” says Forssell.
2024 “Orbit: Rush,” a comic book that reveals how Rush came together to create their best-known songs, is released. Within days, it is the #1 new release on Amazon for biographies and history graphic novels.
