Paul McCartney & Wings live triple album Wings Over America got its release on this day in 1976. Most of the tracks on the album were from a concert in Denver, Colorado on June 23rd of the bicentennial year. Plenty of overdubs of backing vocals got recorded for the LP and the conventional credit of Lennon-McCartney on the five Beatles songs on the collection were switched to McCartney-Lennon.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on December 10 include...

 

1965 The Warlocks do their first gig as the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West.

1967 Otis Redding and his band mates die in plane crash in Wisconsin just four days after Redding had recorded Dock of the Bay.

 

1967 The Steve Miller Band inks a $750,000 deal with Capitol Records.

1971 Frank Zappa suffers a broken leg and skull fracture when the jealous boyfriend of a fan pushes him off the stage during a London concert.

1973 CBGBs opens in New York City.

1976 Billy Idol debuts with Generation X in London.

1983 Keith Richards marries Patty Hanson.

1994 Town of Saugerties, New York sues the organizers of the Woodstock II festival over money lost because of lax gate crasher policy.

1995 Bruce Springsteen performs a fund raising concert to benefit metropolitan area food banks at the Beacon Theater in New York.

1998 Bruce Springsteen wins a suit blocking the former manager from releasing an album of early material.

1998 Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead and others perform at Amnesty International benefit in Paris.

1999 The band's Rick Danko  dies of a heart attack brought on by drug use.

2007 Led Zeppelin reunites with Jason Bonham on drums in a tribute concert to Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun at London's O2 Arena.

2010 Florida Governor pardons Jim Morrison for his conviction on a public lewdness charge at a 1969 Doors concert in Miami.

2015 Janis Joplin's psychedelically painted 1964 Porsche sells for $1.76 million.

2015 Collector buys the last guitar Pete Townshend smashed on stage in 1989 for $84,000...