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.