Now that's a bio!! :lol::stickpoke:drummer::drunk:

September 28

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1991, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music.

October 3, 1954

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Born to Jim and Martha Vaughan on this day, a son, Stephen Ray.

:devil:

October 11

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1995, Tupac Shakur was released from Clinton Correctional Prison on $1.4 Million bail which was posted by Suge Knight. In return 2Pac signed a three album deal with Knight's Death Row Records.

:corn:

^^^That got nothing this time around? Hmm...

Must be back on his meds.

Naaaaaaaah, prolly saw something shiny.

October 12

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1997, John Denver was killed when the handmade, experimental airplane he was flying

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ran out of gas and crashed off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. The 53 year old star had scored 15 songs on Billboard's Top 40 Pop chart, ten of which reached number one on either Billboard's Adult Contemporary or Country chart.

October 18

1956 - 21-year-old Elvis Presley

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pulled into a Memphis gas station where he started to attract a small crowd of autograph seekers. After repeatedly asking Elvis to move on so he could resume normal business, station manager Ed Hopper slapped Presley on the head and found himself on the receiving end of a punch in the face from Elvis. Station employee Aubrey Brown tried to help his boss, but was no match for Presley. After police are called, Hopper and Brown were charged with assault and were fined $25 and $15 respectively.

1974 - Al Green

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was taking a shower at his Memphis home when his ex-girlfriend Mary Woodson burst in and poured boiling grits over him. She then shot herself dead. Green suffered second degree burns.

2005 - An image of a naked John Lennon, taken on the last day of his life, was named the top US magazine cover of the past 40 years. The Rolling Stone front cover,

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taken by Annie Leibovitz and showing Lennon curled around Yoko Ono, was picked by editors, artists and designers.

LOL.

I enjoy your take on music history.

Me also.

:)

October 19

1968, 18 year old Peter Frampton

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meets Steve Marriott at a Small Faces show in London. After striking up a friendship, the two started planning a new group which emerged as Humble Pie the next April.

1980, AC/DC

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kicked off a 20-date UK tour at Bristol Colston Hall. The band's first gigs since the death of singer Bon Scott.

2005, :hedfone: A survey concluded that the average person spent around £21,000 ($42,000) on music during their lives, the figure included the amount spent on Hi-Fi equipment, concerts and CDs. Music enthusiasts were likely to spend more than double that, parting with just over £44,000 ($89,000), in a lifetime, according to the survey conducted by UK company Prudential.

I wonder if that survey included travel and drugs for concerts?

$42K seems way too high. That would be 420 concerts at $100 each. The average person hasn't even come close to seeing that many shows.

I expect I have spent around $5k, including record and CD sales, equipment, and the shows I have seen.

Maybe if you count my mortgage payments for the month each time I bought a CD or saw a show, that would get me over $42k.

But you're more frugal than average. It's easy to spend a fortune on Stereo equipment, sound upgrades in subsequent vehicles, concert dating, and if you buy instruments it can go through the roof.

October 20

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~Wiki

Forty years.

October 24

1966, Newsweek interviewed The Monkees.

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They are asked how the music is created. Singer Davy Jones tells them, "This isn't a rock 'n' roll group. This is an act."

How is the music created? Well first it's written by professionals. :D

October 27

Today is the 300th day of the year.

There are 65 days remaining in the year.

There are 58 days until Christmas.


Events

1964, 31 year old Salvatore Philip Bono married 18 year old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. For a time they performed together as Caesar and Cleo

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before changing the name of their act to Sonny and Cher. Their union lasted 12 years.

1969, Muddy Waters was seriously injured in a car crash in Champagne, Illinois. Three people were killed in the accident.

1975, After releasing the single and album Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen had the rare honor of simultaneous covers

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on both Time and Newsweek magazines in the US.

1980, Former T Rex member Steve Took,

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choked to death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all sensation in his throat, he was 31.

1980, Mark David Chapman bought a five-shot .38 special for $169. Six weeks later he used it to kill John Lennon.

October 28

1956 – Elvis Presley

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receives a polio vaccination on national TV. This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months.

October 29

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November 20, 1946 - October 29, 1971

~Wiki

My dad watched a guy on a motorcycle lose his leg in a moderate-speed accident that was not the motorcyclist's fault. He was sitting at the intersection on his own motorcycle as he watched it happen. And that's when he decided to get rid of his motorcycle.

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Leonard Cohen

September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016

November 9

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1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published. It costs 25 cents.

Rolling Stone got yuge, thick with in depth reporting. Now it's a shadow of it's former self, two or three dozen pages of mostly ads. :(

November 15

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1992 - Ozzy Osbourne announced his retirement from touring after a gig in California, saying "Who wants to be touring at 46?"

Behold, the now-68-year-old Osbourne's tour schedule.:devil:

On this date in 1991 the music world lost both Freddie Mercury (age 45), lead singer for Queen, and Eric Carr (age 41), drummer, at the time, for KISS.

Mercury died from complications from AIDS, while Carr passed from cancer, with tumors invading his heart and lungs.

Also dying on this date, in 1993, was Albert Collins, blues guitarist times 10, also from cancer.

November 27, 1942

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Born on this date to Al & Lucille Hendrix, a son, Johnny Allen.

:shred:

I thought his name was James Marshall Hendrix. Learn something every day

Wiki says he changed his name to James Marshall, but, was born Johnny Allen.

I tripped over it, too.

November 29

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George Harrison

Feb 25, 1943 - Nov 29, 2001




Fuck cancer.

Ever seen George Harrison's son, Dhani?

Sure you have.

If you've seen George, you've seen Dhani:

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Wow.

December 4

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Born on this date, to William and Delores Rhoads, a boy, Randall William.

:devil:

December 10

1998, A recording of a 1963 Beatles concert was sold at auction at Christies in London for £25,300, ($41,500). The tape of The Beatles' 10-song concert was recorded by the chief technician at the Gaumont Theatre in Bournemouth during one of six consecutive nights which The Beatles had played. Also sold for £5,195 ($8,500), was a set of autographs of five Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best, and Stuart Sutcliffe. The autographs had been obtained by a fan in Liverpool in 1961.

2004, One of three RCA microphones used by radio station KWKH for the historic Elvis Presley appearance at the Louisiana Hayride was sold for $37,500. The microphone was one of three used during 50 performances by Elvis Presley when he performed for the radio show in Shreveport from 1954 to 1956.

2010, The original hand-written lyrics to Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin' sold at a New York auction for $422,500 (£267,400). Adam Sender, a hedge fund manager and art collector, outbid five others, placing telephone bids. The song, one of Dylan's most politically charged, was the title track of his 1964 album.

2011, A copy of The Beatles 'Love Me Do' 1962 Demonstration Record sold for $17,339.31 during a 10-day eBay auction. According to the seller, this original demo was the ‘Holy Grail’ of Beatles items.

2015, Janis Joplin's psychedelic 1965 Porsche sold for $1.76 million at RM Sotheby's car auction in New York City. The car was originally expected to fetch between $400,000 and $600,000.

December 11, 1964

♪ ♫"...so I got me a pencil
And a moleskin book
When I heard Bertha Franklin
Shot and killed Sam Cooke

I wrote down
December 11th 1964
Ain't gonna be 'Twistin
The Night Away' no more

It took 15 minutes
For the jury to decide
The cause o' death
Was justified homicide

Eliza Boyer wasn't called
By the prosecution
Then she was arrested
For prostitution

The Hacienda Motel
Had a busted down door
Sam's wallet and his money
Was never accounted for..."♪ ♫

~Count My Blessings by Ray Wylie Hubbard

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Jan 22, 1931 - Dec 11, 1964

December 31

1973 - Australian band AC/DC made their live debut when they appeared at Chequers Bar in Sydney.

1984 - Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen crashed his Corvette Stingray, on the A57 outside Sheffield, Allen lost his left arm in the accident. Allen was on his way to a New Year's Eve party at his family's home when a Jaguar passed him. The driver had been egging Allen on and would not allow him to pass. In his rage to pass this driver, he did not see a turn up ahead and lost control of his car. He was thrown from the car, with his left arm severed due to the seatbelt not being properly fastened.

1985 - 1985, Ricky Nelson was killed, along with six others, when his private plane crashed in Texas. It was rumored that the freebasing of cocaine caused an onboard explosion. Reports vary as to whether or not the plane was on fire before it crashed. Nelson had played himself on his parent's US TV show The Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet.

2015 - 2015, American singer, songwriter Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat King Cole, died aged 65 due to congestive heart failure.

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Born on this date, 1944, to James and Patricia Page, a son, James Patrick.

It was there so you could become a fucking legend.

It was left to keep him away from drugs and girls. :haha:

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:blackr:Nov 6, 1948 - Jan 18, 2016:blackr:

1967, Producer Joe Meek shot his landlady Violet Shenton and then shot himself at his flat in London, Meek produced The Tornadoes hit 'Telstar', the first No.1 in the US by a British group. Meek was interested in spirituality and often attended séances . At one such meeting in 1958 he was warned that Buddy Holly would die on February 3. Meek tried his best to find Holly when he was in London to warn him but failed in his mission. Holly died on February 3, 1959.

February 10

2017, Univer$al Record$ $truck a deal to relea$e much of the late mu$ician Prince'$ private archive. Univer$al $aid the deal gave it exclu$ive licen$ing right$ to Prince'$ "highly anticipated trove of unrelea$ed work$". It ha$ al$o acquired the right$ to 25 album$ that Prince relea$ed through NPG Record$, the label that he founded.

February 20

2003 - 100 people died after pyrotechnics started a fire at a club during a gig by Great White in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Great White singer Ty Longley was also killed in the accident. Two brothers who owned the club were charged, along with the former tour manager, with involuntary manslaughter. Foam soundproofing material at the edge of the stage set alight and the blaze spread quickly in the one-story wooden building as fans all tried to escape through the same exit.

Great White began a tour in July 2003 to raise money for the survivors and families of victims.

March 3

1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Truth!

March 13

1971 - Brewer and Shipley entered the US singles chart with 'One Toke Over The Line'.



The song, which featured Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia on steel guitar, peaked at No.10 despite being banned by radio stations for its drug references. Brewer and Shipley maintained that the word "toke" meant "token" as in ticket, hence the line "waitin' downtown at the railway station, one toke over the line."


1993 - Eric Clapton started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Unplugged.

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It remains the most successful and best-selling live album ever, winning two Grammy awards at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in 1993. It is also Clapton's best-selling album ever, having sold 26 million copies worldwide.

I feel like I might have that Clapton cd

I know I have it. It's a trainload of awesome.

March 15

1975 - The number one single in America was Black Water, by The Doobie Brothers.



:devil:

March 20, 1991

Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress Lori Del Santo, and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’ [which won 6 Grammys].

April 5 - not necessarily known as a good day for music.:(

1980 - R.E.M. played their first ever gig when they appeared at St Mary's Episcopal Church, Athens, Georgia. Michael Stipes' flailing elbows knocked over three church pews, a statue of the Babby Jeebus, and ol' lady Hopkins.

1981 - Canned Heat singer Bob "The Bear" Hite died of a heart attack aged 36.

1984 - Marvin Gaye's funeral took place at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles.

1994 - Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in Seattle. Cobain's body wasn't discovered until April 8, by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system, who initially believed that Cobain was asleep, until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A suicide note was found that said, "I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now". A high concentration of heroin and traces of Valium were found in Cobain's body. His death was officially ruled as suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

1995 - Monika Dannerman, the one time girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix committed suicide, two days after losing a court battle with another of the guitarist's ex-lovers.

1998 - British drummer Cozy Powell (Colin Flooks) was killed when his car smashed into crash barriers on the M4 motorway near Bristol, England. Powell had worked with the Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Brian May, Peter Green and the ELP spin-off Emerson, Lake, and Powell. Powell, known as one of the most driving drummers in rock, had also had hits as a solo artist, including Dance With The Devil and The Man In Black, and had fronted his own band, Cozy Powell's Hammer.

2002 - American singer Layne Staley, of Alice in Chains, was found dead from a mixture of heroin and cocaine in his home. It was reported that the 6-foot (1.8 m) Staley weighed only 86 pounds (39 kg) when his body was discovered. His body was partially decomposed when he was found. Medical examiners had to identify it by dental records.

2006 - Gene Pitney was found dead aged 65 in his bed in a Cardiff hotel. The American singer was on a UK tour and had shown no signs of illness. Pitney helped The Rolling Stones break the American market with his endorsement of the band. Jagger and Richards wrote his hit 'That Girl Belongs to Yesterday'.

2007 - Former KISS guitarist Mark St. John died from an apparent brain hemorrhage, at the age of 51. St. John was Kiss' third official guitarist, having replaced Vinnie Vincent in 1984 and appeared on the album 'Animalize'.

2011 - A statue in tribute to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain was unveiled in his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington, The unveiling marked the 17th anniversary of Cobain's death, which occurred on April 5, 1994. The statue designed by local artists Kim and Lora Malakoff was of his signature Fender Jag-Stang guitar. The concrete guitar was eight and a half feet tall and also featured a ribbon with lyrics written on it from Nirvana's 'On a Plain'. It reads: "One more special message to go and then I'm done and I can go home."

2012 - Jim Marshall, who made rock ’n’ roll rawer and noisier by inventing the Marshall amplifier died at a hospice in London, aged 88. His amplifiers and speakers known as 'Marshall stacks' were used by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and almost every other major rock guitarist in the ’60s and ’70s and by the next generation of guitarists as well, including Kurt Cobain, Eddie Van Halen and Slash.

Man. What is it about the fifth of April?:reaper:

June 2

1967 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,

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by The Beatles, is released in the United States.

June 20

On this day in 1969 David Bowie recorded the album version of Space Oddity.

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July 2

1956 - Elvis Presley recorded 'Hound Dog' at RCA Studios, New York. Take number 31 being the version they released. This was the first time The Jordanaires worked with Presley. The single sold over 10 million copies globally, became his best-selling song and topped the pop chart for 11 weeks, a record that stood for 36 years.

1962 - Jimi Hendrix was honourably discharged from the 101st Airborne Paratroopers, after breaking his ankle during his 26th and final parachute jump.

1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. Over the next 30 years they sold over 385 million Walkmans in cassette, CD, mini-disc and digital file versions, and were the market leaders until the arrival of Apple's iPod and other new digital devices.

2007 - Lyricist Hy Zaret, who wrote the words for the song 'Unchained Melody' died at his home in Westport, Connecticut, aged 99. The song (which does not feature the word "unchained"), has been recorded over 300 times. Zaret co-wrote the song with film composer Alex North for the 1955 prison film Unchained.

Prison movie?! With this knowledge...

I beg you to listen to this song again, as Tyrone and Bubba would sing it to each other in the showers of Cell Block C.

It's a whole 'nother song now, ain't it?:rolleyes:

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Elvis Aaron Presley

January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977

Fuck 16 Aug, I mean, really.

Totally. Really bad date for likeable people.

~http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/

I defy you to listen to Honky Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones and be put in mind of Brazillian gauchos.