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On this day...
1963, Charlie Watts made his live debut with The Rolling Stones at The Flamingo Jazz Club, Soho, London.
1970, Diana Ross made her last appearance with The Supremes at The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas.
1984, Paul McCartney was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Pipes Of Peace.' With this release McCartney made chart history by becoming the first artist to have a No.1 in a group, (The Beatles), in a duo, (with Stevie Wonder), in a trio, (with Wings) and as a solo artist.
1996, Oasis went to No.1 on the UK album chart with '(What's The Story) Morning Glory', the group's second UK No.1 spent a total of 145 week's on the chart.
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Born this day...
1936, Clarence Carter, US singer/guitarist.
1937, Billie Jo Spears, US female singer.
1948, Tim Harris, drummer, The Foundations.
1959, Chas Smash, horns, Madness.
1969, Dave Grohl, drummer/singer, Nirvana/Foo Fighters.
1982, Caleb Followill, lead singer/rhythm guitarist, Kings of Leon.
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Born this day...
1920, Boudleaux Bryant, songwriter with his wife Felice. They wrote The Everly Brothers hits, ‘Bye Bye Love’, ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’ and ‘Wake Up Little Susie’.
1943, Bill Szymczyk, US producer, worked with The Eagles, The Who, B.B. King, Joe Walsh, Wishbone Ash, The J. Geils Band and The James Gang.
1944, Peter Tork, vocals, keyboards and bass with American group The Monkees.
1945, Roy Dyke, Ashton Gardner & Dyke.
1950, Peter Gabriel, singer, songwriter.
1950, Roger Christian, vocals - The Christians.
1951, Rod Dees, singer - Showaddywaddy.
1952, Ed Gagliardi, bassist - Foreigner.
1956, Peter Hook, bass/vocals - Joy Division/New Order.
1958, Mark Fox, percussion - Haircut 100.
1974, Robbie Williams, Take That.
1988, Aston Merrygold, JLS.
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1967, The Beatles released the double A sided single 'Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane'.
1969, Bob Dylan recorded versions of 'Lay, Lady, Lay', at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.
1970, Black Sabbath released their debut self-titled studio album on Vertigo records in the UK.
1971, The Osmonds started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'One Bad Apple'.
1977, Julie Covington was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina', taken from the Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical Evita.
1980, Phil Lynott married Caroline Crowther the daughter of TV personality Leslie.
1989, This years Brit Awards was hosted by Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood in which just about everything went wrong - lines were fluffed and bands mis-cued onto the stage.
1993, Founder member of Musical Youth, Patrick Waite died aged 24, of natural causes (hereditary heart condition), whilst awaiting a court appearance on drug charges.
1996, Take That split up, the biggest band of the 90s announced their demise in front of the world's press at The Hilton in Manchester.
1998, Police at Manchester Airport arrested former Stone Roses singer, Ian Brown after an incident during a flight from Paris.
2000, Oasis scored their fifth UK No.1 single with 'Go Let It Out'.
2004, Led Zeppelin were awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Grammys.
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Born this day...
1948, George Kooymans, guitar - Golden Earring.
1950, Bobby McFerrin - vocalist and conductor.
1961, Bruce Watson, guitar - Big Country.
1968, Lisa Loeb -singer.
1979, Joel and Benji Madden - Good Charlotte.
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