On this day in music history: The 80s

1980: Paul McCartney was jailed in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana. He spent ten days behind bars before being kicked-out of the country by Japanese authorities. The remainder of his tour was canceled.

1987: The Beastie Boys become the first band to ever be censored by American Bandstand. They still performed on the show, just not live. They were forced to 'lip-sync' and had to 'tone it down' a bit. Couldn't find much info on why except for it had something to do with Dick Clark apparently determined Adrock's mid-song crotch-grab was just too much. 



 Beastie Boys on AB.




1988: Tina Turner gave herself a place in the record books when she performed in front of 182,000 people, the largest audience ever for a single artist, in Rio De Janerio.