This Day in Music: October 10, 2026

• 2025: Moody Blues bassist and singer John Lodge dies at 82.
  Lodge joined the band in 1966 and wrote and sang “Ride My See-Saw” and “I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band).” He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the group in 2018.
• 2013: Country singer Cal Smith dies at 81.
  The former member of Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours died at his home in Branson, Missouri. His 1974 crossover hit “Country Bumpkin” was named Song of the Year by both the CMA and the ACM.
• 2011: Lana Del Rey releases her first single, “Video Games.”
  The slow, cinematic ballad introduced her sound to a wide audience and led into her 2012 album Born to Die.
• 2010: Soul great Solomon Burke dies at 70.
  Burke died at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after flying in for a concert. Known for “Cry to Me” and “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
• 2007: Radiohead releases In Rainbows as a pay-what-you-want download.
  Fans could name their own price, including nothing at all, for the band's seventh album. The experiment rattled the record business, and the physical release that followed still topped the U.S. album chart.
• 2002: Jay-Z releases “'03 Bonnie & Clyde” featuring Beyoncé.
  The duet reached the top five on the Hot 100 and gave fans the first hint that the two were a couple. They married in 2008.
• 2001: U2 streams a full concert online for free.
  The show in South Bend, Indiana, opened the third leg of the Elevation tour and was carried on the band's website at a time when few homes had broadband.
• 1995: No Doubt releases Tragic Kingdom.
  The breakthrough album produced “Just a Girl” and “Don't Speak,” sold about 10 million copies in the United States and made Gwen Stefani a star.
• 1992: Garth Brooks debuts at No. 1 with The Chase.
  The album knocked Billy Ray Cyrus's Some Gave All out of the top spot on the album chart after 17 weeks, one country blockbuster replacing another. It included “We Shall Be Free” and “That Summer.”
• 1983: Culture Club releases Colour by Numbers.
  The second album from Boy George and the band carried “Karma Chameleon,” which went to No. 1 in both the United States and Britain, along with “Church of the Poison Mind” and “Miss Me Blind.”
• 1979: Fleetwood Mac gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley declared it Fleetwood Mac Day in the city. The band's double album Tusk, the follow-up to Rumours, arrived two days later.
• 1977: A firecracker thrown on stage injures Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.
  The M-80 went off during a show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, damaging Tyler's cornea and Perry's hand.
• 1970: Neil Diamond scores his first No. 1 with “Cracklin' Rosie.”
  The single spent one week on top of the Hot 100. Diamond returned to No. 1 with “Song Sung Blue” in 1972 and with “You Don't Bring Me Flowers,” his duet with Barbra Streisand, in 1978.
• 1964: The Shangri-Las' “Leader of the Pack” enters the Hot 100.
  The motorcycle melodrama, complete with a revving engine and crash sound effects, came in at No. 86 and climbed to No. 1 by late November. It was the girl group's only chart-topper.
• 1956: Elvis Presley's “Love Me Tender” enters the Billboard best-seller chart.
  The ballad, the title song of his first movie, borrowed its melody from the Civil War-era tune “Aura Lee.” It spent five weeks at No. 1 and sold more than 3 million copies.

Born on This Day

• 1985: Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter (Marina and the Diamonds)
  Turns 41. The pop singer now billed simply as MARINA is known for “Primadonna” and “How to Be a Heartbreaker.”
• 1983: Lzzy Hale, American singer and guitarist (Halestorm)
  Turns 43. The Pennsylvania-born frontwoman led her band to a Grammy for “Love Bites (So Do I).”
• 1979: Mýa, American R&B singer
  Turns 47. Scored hits with “Case of the Ex” and the 2001 chart-topping remake of “Lady Marmalade.”
• 1967: Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
  Turns 59. Played with the band from the mid-1990s through 2013, the stretch that produced “Iris” and “Slide.”
• 1967: Michael Giacchino, American film and television composer
  Turns 59. Won an Academy Award for the score to Up and also wrote the music for Lost and The Incredibles.
• 1961: Crystal Waters, American dance singer-songwriter
  Turns 65. Her club anthems “Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)” and “100% Pure Love” crossed over to pop radio in the early 1990s.
• 1961: Martin Kemp, English bassist (Spandau Ballet)
  Turns 65. Played on the 1983 ballad “True” and later became a familiar face as an actor on British television.
• 1959: Kirsty MacColl, English singer-songwriter
  Best remembered as the female voice on the Pogues' holiday favorite “Fairytale of New York.” She died in 2000.
• 1958: Tanya Tucker, American country singer
  Turns 68. Broke through at 13 with “Delta Dawn” and followed with “What's Your Mama's Name” and “Blood Red and Goin' Down.”
• 1954: David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
  Turns 72. The flamboyant frontman on “Jump” and “Panama” also had solo hits with “California Girls” and “Just Like Paradise.”
• 1953: Midge Ure, Scottish singer and guitarist (Ultravox)
  Turns 73. Co-wrote the Band Aid charity single “Do They Know It's Christmas?” with Bob Geldof.
• 1948: Cyril Neville, American percussionist and singer (The Neville Brothers)
  Turns 78. The youngest of the New Orleans brothers who became the first family of the city's funk and R&B.
• 1946: John Prine, American singer-songwriter
  The Illinois-born songwriter behind “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone” and “Paradise” died in 2020.
• 1946: Ben Vereen, American singer, dancer and actor
  Turns 80. Won a Tony Award for the Broadway musical Pippin in 1973.
• 1917: Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist and composer
  One of the most original voices in jazz, he wrote standards including “'Round Midnight.” He died in 1982.
• 1914: Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist
  Had a 1956 hit with “Since I Met You Baby,” and Elvis Presley later recorded several of his songs. He died in 1974.
• 1908: Johnny Green, American composer and conductor
  Wrote the 1930 standard “Body and Soul,” one of the most recorded songs in jazz. He died in 1989.
• 1813: Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer
  Composed Rigoletto, La traviata and Aida, operas still performed around the world. He died in 1901.