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This Day in Music History

Posted: 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012

This Day in Music History: Tuesday, October 30th 

By Mike Lapitino

This Day in Music History...

1971:  John Lennon's Imagine album hits #1.  It's his only solo album to sell a million copies until Double Fantasy, which tops the album chart shortly after his assassination on December 8, 1980.

1978:  NBC airs the made-for-TV film KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, starring the rockers as heroes fighting a mad scientist (Anthony Zerbe) in an amusement park.

1986:  The Beastie Boys release License to Ill, which becomes the first rap album to go to #1 on the Billboard album chart.

1990:  Singer Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses is arrested for hitting a neighbor with an empty wine bottle.  The charges are later dropped.

2000:  U2 performs a brief set on the roof of the MTV studios in New York's Time Square.

2003:  Steven Tyler's model and actress daughter Mia Tyler marries Papa Roach drummer Dave Buckner onstage at an Aerosmith concert at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

2007:  The Eagles' first studio album in 28 years, Long Road Out of Eden, goes on sale exclusively at Wal-Mart stores.

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