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1930: Ramblin’Jack Elliott
1942: Jerry Garcia
1946: Bobby Krieger (Doors)
1951: Jaco Pastorius
1953: Robert Cray
1960: Aretha Franklin makes her first recordings for CBS.
1963: Bob Dylan releases ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’
1968: Mick Jagger movie Performance
1970: Bon Scott’s Valentines split
1971: George Harrison’s two Concerts for Bangladesh in NY.
1987: Los Lobos No.1 on US singles chart with ‘La Bamba.’
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1937: Garth Hudson (the Band)
1950: Andy Fairweather Low
1951: Andrew Gold
1961: The Beatles begin two-year residency at Liverpool’s Cavern Club
2001: New Orleans airport renamed Louis Armstrong Airport.
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1926: Tony Bennett
1946; John York (bass player with The Byrds).
1969: Doug Parkinson in Focus win Hoadley’s Battle of the Sounds from Aesop’s Fables and the Valentines.
1971: Paul McCartney announces formation of Wings.
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1901: Louis Satchmo Armstrong
1966: John Lennon reported as saying that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus.
1968: Newport Pop Festival with Canned Heat, Sonny & Cher, Steppenwolf, The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane and Tiny Tim.
1971: Daddy Cool performs showcase at Whisky Au Go Go, Los Angeles.
1979: Benefit for Lowell George’s widow.
1980: John Lennon starts recording Double Fantasy.
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1941: Airto Moreira
1946: Jimmy Webb
1966: The Beatles release Revolver in UK.
1983: David Crosby sentenced to five years jail in Texas for drug offences.
1992: Jeff Porcaro of Toto dies.
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1938: Isaac Hayes
1950: Rodney Crowell
1964: Rod Stewart makes his TV debut on The Beat Room in the Hoochie Coochie Men.
1965: Decca releases Small Faces debut single ‘Whatcha Gonnna Do About It?’
1973: Memphis Minnie dies
1955: ‘Maybelline’ by Chuck Berry
1965: Andrew Loog Oldham forms Immediate Records
1965: Beatles release Help in UK
1975: ‘Ego Is Not A Dirty Word’ is No 1 on Australian Album Chart
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1925; Felice Bryant (songwriter)
1937: Morris ‘Magic Slim’ Holt
1952: Andy Fraser, bassist with the Bluesbreakers and Free.
1957: Quarrymen make their debut at Liverpool’s Cavern Club.
1971: Daddy Cool’s ‘Eagle Rock’ tops the Australian singles chart with Blackfeather’s ‘Seasons of Change’ at No.2.
1979: Led Zeppelin perform for their last ever UK show at Knebworth.
1984: Esther Phillips dies from liver failure.
2001: Larry Adler, harmonica player, dies.
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1923: Jimmy Witherspoon
1927: Andy Warhol (died February 22, 1987)
1943: Joe Tex (d 1982)
1961: The Edge (U2)
1964: Another Side of Bob Dylan out.
1970: Janis Joplin buys headstone for Bessie Smith at Mont Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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1960: Aimee Mann
1954: Bruce Thomas, bass player with Elvis Costello & The Attractions.
1963: First ever edition of BBC’s Ready, Steady, Go!
1964: Bob Dylan introduced to audiences at a Joan Baez concert in NY.
1967: Scott McKenzie’s ‘San Francisco’ No.1 on UK singles chart.
1980: AC/DC’s first No.1 UK LP Back In Black.
1995: Jerry Garcia dies, 53
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1909: Leo Fender, founder of Fender Guitars
1928: Jimmy Dean, had a 1961 hit with ‘Big bad John’ about Triple R’s Johnny Von Goes.
1947: Ian Anderson, founder of Jethro Tull
1947: Ronnie Spector
1968: The Band’s Music From Big Pink enters the US charts.
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1942: Mike Hugg, Manfred Mann
1949: Eric Carmen, singer with The Young Rascals and later The Raspberries.
1955: Joe Jackson
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1920: Percy Mayfield
1942: Son Seals
1949: Mark Knopfler
1951: August Darnell (Kid Coconut)
1953: Jeremy Speiser, drummer, Men At Work
1964: A Hard Day’s Night film opens in US.
1966: The Beatles begin final tour of the US.
1967: Fleetwood Mac debuts at National Jazz & Blues Festival
1970: Janis Joplin sings final concert
1994: Woodstock 94 held in Sugerties, NY and attended by 350,000.
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1921: Jimmy McCracklin
1951: Dan Fogelberg
1966: Revolver at No.1 in the UK. First of 7 weeks at the top.
1971: Pink Floyd, Festival Hall, Melbourne
1971: Sax player King Curtis Ousley stabbed to death.
1982: Joe Tex dies of heart attack (49).
1990: Curtis Mayfield paralysed by falling lighting rig in New York
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1941: David Crosby
1946: Larry Graham – (Sly & Family Stone)
1947: Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span)
1958: Big Bill Broonzy dies aged 65
1958: Elvis Presley’s mother Gladys dies.
1962: Pete Best sacked from The Beatles.
1968: ‘Fire’ by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown at No.1 in the UK.
1976: Nick Lowe’s first solo single ‘So It Goes’, first Stiff Records single
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1911: Buster Brown
1930: Jackie Brenston
1965: Beatles perform for record rock concert crowd of 55,600 at Shea Stadium, NY
1969: Woodstock held at Yasgur’s farm in upstate NY
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1938: Robert Johnston buried
1945: Kevin Ayers
1977: The King is Dead! Elvis dies, aged 42
1996: Ray Brown (of the Whispers) dies
1966: Monkees first single released – ’Last Train to Clarksviile’/’Take A
Giant Step’
1973: Ramones play first gig at CBGB.
1975: Peter Gabriel announces he is leaving Genesis.
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1939: Luther Allison (died 1997)
1953: Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
1955: Colin Moulding (XTC)
1964: Maria McKee
1960: Beatles begin three-month engagement at Indra Club in Hamburg.
1964: Kinks ‘You Really Got Me’ released.
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1945: Nona Hendryx
1962: Ringo Starr makes first appearance with Beatles at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1969: Mick Jagger accidentally shot in the hand on the set of Ned Kelly. Unfortunately, he was able to complete the film.
1979: Nick Lowe marries Carlene Carter.
2003: Tony Jackson, bass player with Searchers, dies.
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1939: Ginger Baker
1940: Johnny Nash
1943: Billy J Kramer
1945: Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)
1959: Blind Willie McTell dies
1964: Beatles first US tour opens at Cow Palace San Francisco.
1968: Final Monkees TV show airs in US
1973: Kris Kristofferson marries Rita Coolidge.
1977: Elvis Costello & the Attractions release their first album My Aim Is True.
2001: Singer Betty Everett(‘The Shoop Shoop Song’, 1964) dies.
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1947: James Pankow (Chicago)
1948: Robert Plant
1951: Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
1952: John Hiatt
1952: Joe Strummer (the Clash)
1965: Andrew Loog Oldham launches the Immediate label.
1975: Daddy Coot splits for last time
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1904: Count Basie
1939: James Burton
1952: Joe Strummer (dies December 22, 2002).
1965: Rolling Stones reach No 1 on US charts with Out of Our Heads
1977: Final Ariel appearance, at Dallas Brooks Hall, Melbourne
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1917: John Lee Hooker (patron saint of Rhythms Magazine) in Clarkesdale, Mississippi
1938: Dale Hawkins
1970: Jimi Hendrix’s final recording session ever in Electric Lady Studios.
1978: Sid Vicious makes his final live appearance at London’s Electric Ballroom with Rat Scabies, Glenn Matlock and Nancy Spungen.
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1905: Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
1947: Keith Moon (died 1978)
1949: Rick Springfield
1959: Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice)
1978: Julian Casablancas, The Strokes.
1962: John Lennon marries Cynthia Powell.
1970: Lou Reed leaves Velvet Underground after gig at Max’s, Kansas City
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1944: Jim Capaldi (Traffic)
1949: Jean-Michel Jarre
1967: Bruce Springsteen joins a band called earth.
1981: Mark Chapman gets 20 years jail for murdering John Lennon.
1983: Jerry Lee Lewis’ fifth wife, Michelle Stevens, found dead after methadone overdose.
2004: Al Dorvin, 81, the man who coined the phrase ‘Elvis has left the building’ dies in a car crash on his way home from and Elvis convention in California.
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1933: Wayne Shorter
1950: Willy DeVille (died August 6, 2009)
1954: Elvis Costello (Declan McManus)
1967: Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
2000: Jack Nitzsche dies aged 63.
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1960: Branford Marsalis, saxophonist
1967; Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful join The Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Bangor, North Wales.
1970: The Isle of Wight Pop Festival: Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, The who, The Doors, Sly & The Family Stone and more.
1977: Ian Dury’s first solo record Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll released on Stiff
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1956: Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols)
1965: Bob Dylan releases Highway 61 Revisited
1967: Beatles manager Brian Epstein (32) dies of sleeping pill overdose
1968: Recordings for Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland completed.
1990: Stevie Ray Vaughan killed in helicopter accident.
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1943: David Soul
1948: Danny Seraphine, drummer for Chicago.
1965: Shania Twain
1964: The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time after a show at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York.
1976: Wild celebrations break out when Joe Walsh leaves The Eagles.
1981: Producer Guy Stevens (Mott The Hoople, Free, The Clash) dies of heart attack.
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1920: Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, alto sax
1942: Sterling Morrison, Velvet Underground.
1945: Chris Copping (Procol Harum)
1958: Michael Jackson
1959: Eddi Reader
1969: Me’shell Ndegeocello
1998: Charlie Feathers dies
2001: Shirley Strachan dies
1966: The Beatles’ last official concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
1970: Jimi Hendrix’s last performance at the Isle Of Wight Festival
1976: Jimmy Reed dies aged 50
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1935: John Phillips, Mamas & Papas
1939: John (Robert Parker Ravenscroft) Peel – UK music presenter and legend. Died October 25, 2004.
1969: Three-day Texas Pop Festival: Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Sam & Dave, Santana, Johnny Winter, Grand Funk, Delaney & Bonnie, Nazz, Spirit, BB King, Canned Heat and Chicago.
1995: Stirling Morrison (Velvet Underground) dies, 53
1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono play their first official American solo concert.
2003: Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, dies.
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1945: Van ‘the Man’ Morrison, born George Ivan Morrison, in Belfast
1957: Glen Tilbrook (Squeeze)
1960: Chris Whitley
1969: Dylan returns to the stage after a motorcycle accident.
1970: Derek & the Dominos record ‘Key to the Highway’ for the Layla album.
1974: Last Traffic gig at Reading Festival.
1976: George Harrison found guilty of ‘subconscious’ plagiarism with ‘My Sweet Lord.’
