What Happened May 10th In Pop Music History

bono — Bono, pictured in 2018. Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images

It’s May 10th and these are some of the things that happened on this day in pop music history:

- In 1960, Paul David Hewson was born in Dublin. In 1976, he formed a band with David Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. called Feedback, then The Hype, then U2. Hewson adopted the nickname Bono.

- In 1989, Bono became a first-time father when wife Alison gave birth to their daughter, Jordan. The couple went on to have another daughter and two sons.

- In 2003, Madonna’s American Life topped the Billboard 200 album chart. The pop star’s ninth studio album included the theme song from the James Bond movie Die Another Day.

- In 2006, Chris Daughtry was voted off American Idol. The rocker was a Top 4 contestant and favoured to win (Taylor Hicks went on to be crowned the Season 5 winner).

- In 2005, Seal married model Heidi Klum on a beach in Mexico, a little more than a year after they started dating. The singer proposed to Klum just before Christmas 2004 on a glacier in Whistler, BC. The couple separated in 2012 and were divorced in 2014.

- In 1986, the Pet Shop Boys went to No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a new version of their 1984 club track, “West End Girls.” The song also topped the chart in Canada.

- In 1991, Madonna: Truth Or Dare debuted in limited release, two weeks before its wide release. Outside of uptight U.S. and Canada, the documentary/concert film was titled In Bed with Madonna.

- In 1985, The Go-Go’s announced they were breaking up. Belinda Carlisle went on to have some solo success but the band reunited in the late ‘90s for released one more album in 2001.