This day in 'Musical' history

Sept 8th:
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1956 - Eddie Cochran

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Eddie Cochran signed a one year contract with Liberty Records, Cochran went on to give Liberty three top 40 hits over the next several years including ‘Summertime Blues,’ ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and ‘C’mon Everybody’.
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1957 - Jackie Wilson

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Reet Petite' by Jackie Wilson was released for the first time.
It became a UK No. 1, ....... 29 years later.

During a 1975 benefit concert, Wilson collapsed on-stage from a heart attack and subsequently fell into a coma that persisted for nearly nine years until his death in 1984

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Sept 8th:
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1968 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin appeared at Raventlow Parken, Nykobing, Falster, Denmark supported by The Beatnicks and The Ladybirds, (who were a all girl topless go-go dancing outfit).

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  • This was the group's third ever live gig.
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1979 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin scored their eighth UK No.1 album when 'In Through The Out Door'

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It went to the top of the charts for two weeks.
The eighth studio album by Zeppelin, was their final album of entirely new material.
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Sept 8th:
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1997 - Led Zeppelin
29 years after the band first formed, Led Zeppelin released 'Whole Lotta Love', their first ever single in the UK.
The track recorded in 1969 and featured on the bands second album was issued to promote their re-issued back catalogue.


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2004 - Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant was guest of honour at the unveiling of a statue of 15th century rebel leader Owain Glyndwr at Pennal church, near Machynlleth in Wales.
Plant, who owns a farmhouse in the area had donated money towards a bronze sculpture of the Welsh prince.

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Sept 8th:
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1955
In an attempt to hide the wrinkles in his suit, Chuck Berry does the duck walk for the first time.

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Berry performs the famous move, squatting on one leg while hopping across the stage, at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, where he is low in the bill at Alan Freed's "Rock and Roll Spectacular," a week-long run of shows that features Tony Bennett, Lillian Briggs and The Rhythmettes.

It's one of Berry's first shows outside of St. Louis, where he has been performing with his trio (piano player Johnnie Johnson and drummer Ebby Harding) since 1952.
Their suits get wrinkled on the way to New York, so Berry keeps a crouch on stage to conceal them, improvising his duck walk along the way. The crowd goes nuts, so Berry does it at the rest of the shows, where it wows the crowd every time. It became his signature move on stage.

Berry has a flat-footed gait, making the duck walk a natural for him, but rather difficult for the many guitarists who try to emulate it along with his licks.

It's a pose he's been striking since he was a kid.The move is one of Berry's many contributions to rock and roll, which is in its infancy. In promoting this new form of music, Freed, a prominent disc jockey, mixes traditional acts with artists like Berry and Fats Domino, who are forging the new sound.

His duck walk remains the most famous stage move in rock.
 
Sept 9th:
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1965 - The Monkees
  • US newspaper The Hollywood reporter ran the following advertisement;
    "'Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys".
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The Monkees were born.- 437 people applied for the job.
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Sept 10th:
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1964
Rod Stewart recorded his first single, a version of Willie Dixon's 'Good Morning Little School Girl.'

  • Future Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones played on the session.
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1970
B.B. King plays for inmates at Cook County Jail in Chicago.
  • The show is released the following year as the album Live at Cook County Jail

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Live in Cook County Jail - Wikipedia
 
Sept 10th:
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1997 - Andy Warhol
An electric chair, which was used in Alcatraz and once owned by Andy Warhol, sold for £4,800 at an auction in Bristol.
Warhol used to sit in the chair and watch horror movies.

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2002 - Chris Cowey
Chris Cowey the man behind the UK's longest running music TV show Top Of The Pops accused record bosses of controlling the singles chart with marketing scams and as a result the chart lacked credibility and was 'full of crap records.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-137772/The-great-pop-fix.html
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Sept 10th:
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2007 - Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud broke the record for most consecutive top 10 hits in the U.K. singles chart by a female act.
Their latest single 'Sexy! No No No' entered the chart at number five giving them a run of 16 top 10 hits.

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2021 - ABBA
ABBA returned to the top-ten of the UK Singles Chart for the first time in almost forty years when 'Don't Shut Me Down' debuted at No.9, becoming their 20th top-ten single.
  • The group's last single to reach the top-ten of the UK charts was 'One of Us', which peaked at No.3 in December 1981.
 
Sept 11th:
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1956 - Rock Around the Clock
Police were called to break up a crowd of rowdy teenagers following the showing of the film Rock Around the Clock at the Trocadero Cinema in London, England.
*** The following day, The Times printed a reader's letter that said: "The hypnotic rhythm and the wild gestures have a maddening effect on a rhythm loving age group and the result of its impact is the relaxing of all self control." The film was quickly banned in several English cities.
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1964 - Mick Jagger
The London Evening News reported that a 16 year-old Eltham Collage boy, introduced as Laurie Yarham, was everyone's idea of a winner in a Mick Jagger look-a-like competition.
Laurie looked like Mick Jagger and seemed to know his every action and the audience at Greenwich Town Hall were delighted,
...... until the winner turned out to be Mick's younger brother Chris Jagger

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Sept 11th:
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1971
The Jackson 5 cartoon series, called The Jackson 5ive, debuts on ABC. Each episode shows various adventures with animated versions of the group, along with Michael's pet mice Ray and Charles, and his snake Rosie.
  • The cartoon runs from 1971-1973.

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1973
Bruce Springsteen releases his second album, The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle.
- - - And which come the Fans Favourite ROSALITA,

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Sept 11th:
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1988 - Michael Jackson
  • Michael Jackson appeared at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England on his Bad World Tour.
Over 3,000 fans were treated by the St. John Ambulance service for passing out, hysteria and being crushed amongst the crowd of 125,000 fans, the largest concert of the 123-date world tour.

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2006 - Classical Music
A study from the University of Leicester found that more than a quarter of classical music fans had tried cannabis.

Researchers were trying to find out what people's taste in music revealed about their lifestyles.

The UK study also revealed that blues buffs are the most likely to have received a driving penalty.

Hip hop and dance music fans were more likely to have multiple sex partners and were among the biggest drug-takers surveyed.

More than 2,500 people were interviewed for the study, which was published in the scientific journal Psychology of Music.

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Sept 12th:
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1943
Frank Sinatra starts his film career when he signs a 7-year contract with RKO Pictures
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1954
As the first 'teen idol', Frank Sinatra was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Three Coins In The Fountain'.
It was the singer's first UK No.1.
The song was The Academy Award winning Best Original Song of 1954.


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Sept 9th:
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1965 - The Monkees
  • US newspaper The Hollywood reporter ran the following advertisement;
    "'Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys".
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The Monkees were born.- 437 people applied for the job.
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Sept 12th:
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1966
The Monkees TV show makes its debut, with four actors chosen to portray a pop band based on The Beatles.

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While The Monkees are a fictional band, they become very real and eventually play on their own recordings instead of studio musicians.

It all started with an ad in Variety seeking "Four Insane Boys, Ages 17-21" to star in a new NBC-TV sitcom.

Answering the call among 400 other hopefuls are
two folkies (Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork),
an English actor (Davy Jones) and
a former child star (Micky Dolenz).
  • Together they are the Monkees, an aspiring rock 'n roll band bumbling their way to their big break one zany adventure at a time.
And they're too busy singing to put anybody down. Inspired by the prat-falling 1964 Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night, filmmakers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider wanted to exploit a youthful audience already enthralled with Beatlemania. Sunny Monkees tunes soon begin climbing the charts alongside the Fab Four, with "Last Train To Clarksville" and "I'm A Believer" landing at #1. Fans are startled to learn, however, that there are more than four Monkees in the barrel.
- Don Kirshner, future creator of The Archies, oversees the music while songwriters
- Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart write the songs.
- The instrumentals are almost entirely played by studio musicians, while at least one Monkee provides vocals.

"At the same time, we were the Monkees," Tork explained to When The Music Mattered in 1982. "It was a unique phenomenon, to be a member of a group that wasn't really a group and yet was a group. If we'd been a group, we would have fought to be a group or we would have broken up as a group. But we were a project, a TV show, a record-making machine."At the height of their success, the Monkees are derided as a plastic, prefabricated, Beatles-wannabe band without any real substance.

In response,
The group ousts Kirshner in favor of former Turtles bassist Chip Douglas and announces their intent to write and play their own music.
The result is another #1 album, Headquarters, followed by the chart-topping Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. The Monkees, which garners an Emmy win for Outstanding Comedy Series, ends its two-season run in 1968, but the now-legitimate band continues to perform until 1971.In 1986, MTV celebrates the group's 20th anniversary with a marathon of the series, sparking a res
 
Sept 12th:
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1970 - The Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert
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The 1970 Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert was a benefit concert to raise funds for the Heriditary Disease Foundation, held at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.
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The concert featured a lineup of prominent musicians, including Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and Pete Seeger, and included performances of Guthrie's songs with narration from actors Peter Fonda and Will Geer.

The event was filmed by Jim Brown and later released on DVD, preserving the historic tribute to the iconic American folk singer who died in 1967.
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1997 - Stig Anderson
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Founder of the Polar Music record label, songwriter, producer and ABBA's manager Stig Anderson died of a heart attack.
Anderson co-wrote some of ABBA's biggest hits, such as
‘Waterloo’,
‘Mamma Mia’,
‘S.O.S’,
‘Fernando’,
‘Dancing Queen’,
‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ - and ...
‘The Name of the Game.’

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His funeral was broadcast live on Swedish television an honour otherwise only reserved for distinguished statesmen or royalty.
 
Sept 13th:
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1958 - Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard made his British TV debut on Jack good's 'Oh Boy', performing 'Move It'.


--- Before he was allowed to appear on the show, Richard was ordered to remove his sideburns.
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1960 - Ray Peterson
A campaign was started in the UK to ban the American hit 'Tell Laura I Love Her' by Ray Peterson.
The song was being denounced in the press as likely to inspire a teen-age "glorious death cult." The story told of a lovesick youngster who drives in a stock car race to win the hand of his sweetheart. He crashes and just before dying, groans out the words of the title.


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Sept 13th:
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1969 - Rugby Bag Blues Festival
The first day of the 3 day Rugby Bag Blues Festival in Warwickshire, England with
  • Pink Floyd,
  • The Nice,
  • Taste,
  • Free,
  • Third Ear Band,
  • Ralph McTell,
  • Roy Harper,
  • King Crimson,
  • The Strawbs,
  • Edgar Broughton,
  • Spirit of John Morgan and
  • John Martyn,
--- Tickets from 12/6.

Rugby Rag's Blues Festival. Rainsbrook. Rugby . Warwickshire.1969

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Sept 13th:
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1985 - MTV Video Music Awards
  • 'We Are The World' won Best Group Video and the Viewer's Choice at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
  • Don Henley's 'The Boys Of Summer' video won four trophies, including Best Video.
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  • Tina Turner won Best Female Video for 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.
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Sept 13th:
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2000

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Almost Famous... is released in theaters across the US.
The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager.

The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one.

Patrick Fugit plays the young journalist accompanying Stillwater on tour, straddling the line between careful observer and active participant in rock n' roll decadence.

While the story is fictionalized, many of the main players from that era are portrayed, including iconic rock journalist Lester Bangs
and young Pennie Lane,

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who kept quite a few musicians warm at night on the road (In the film, Crowe changes the spelling of her first name to "Penny").

Almost Famous offers a first-person glimpse into the behind-the-scenes reality of life in the music world once the flower power movement of the '60s has faded out to make way for a more fist-in-the-air, blow-out-the-amps stadium sound.

As with Crowe's tribute to love and grunge, Singles, the soundtrack to Almost Famous is a powerful reflection of the music of the times, featuring songs by such legendary artists as David Bowie, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who and Led Zeppelin.

The film itself features a near-constant backdrop of classic songs that don't make it on to the official soundtrack, including artists like Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young.

Adding to the authenticity of the movie, three of Stillwater's songs are co-written by Nancy Wilson of Heart (Crowe's wife); the other two are penned by Peter Frampton and The Who. On February 21, 2001, the soundtrack wins the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack
 
Sept 14th:
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1955 - Little Richard
Little Richard entered a New Orleans recording studio to begin two days of recording for Specialty Records..
Things were not going well and during a break, Richard and his producer; Bumps Blackwell went to the Dew Drop Inn for lunch.
Richard started playing the piano in the bar like crazy, singing a loud and lewd version of ‘Tutti Frutti.’
  • With only fifteen minutes left in the session, Richard recorded the song and coined the phrase, ‘a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom.’

It was originally titiled "Tutti Frutti, Good Booty," a female lyricist at the label rewrites it to take out the prurient references.


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1968 - The Archies
The first episode of the comic strip 'The Archies' was aired on US TV.
The recording group had contributions from Ron Dante, Andy Kim, Jeff Barry and others. Rock mogul, Don Kirshner (who also brought us The Monkees) was put in charge of the studio group.

The following year The Archies started a eight-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Sugar Sugar,' becoming the longest running One Hit Wonder in the UK.

 
Sept 14th:
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1983 - Amy Winehouse
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Is born in Southgate, London, England. Her 2006 album Back To Black is hailed as a masterwork and makes her quite famous, but all the attention exacerbates her drug and alcohol addictions, and she dies of alcohol poisoning in 2011.

2014 -
A life-size bronze statue of singer Amy Winehouse was unveiled in Camden, north London.
Her father, Mitch Winehouse, said she was "in love with Camden" and it was the place fans associated with her.
Created by sculptor Scott Eaton, the statue features the Back to Black star with her hand on hip and her trademark beehive hairdo.

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Sept 14th:
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1973
Donny Osmond's "The Twelfth Of Never" is certified, GOLD.
  • (As an aside it was Number1 on my Birthday - in the U.K))

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1974
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Eric Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff," a song written by Bob Marley, hits #1 - on the Hot 100.

- It is Clapton's only #1 on that tally, either as a solo artist or with one of his bands (Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek & the Dominos...)

 
Sept, 14th
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2007
The Beatles-inspired movie Across The Universe premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Directed by Julie Taymor and starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess, the film features various Beatles songs woven into a 1960s love story, receiving mixed critical reviews but achieving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Across the Universe (film) - Wikipedia

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2018 - Tony Bennett
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Verve Records held a launch party at the Rainbow Room in New York City to celebrate the release of Tony Bennett and Diana Krall's album Love Is Here To Stay.

After the duo performed their rendition of 'Fascinating Rhythm,' Guinness World Records adjudicator Alex Angert announced Bennett - who first recorded the tune under the stage name Joe Bari over 68 years earlier - was now the title holder for "the longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single."

https://www.tonybennett.com/news-de...'s got the world on,an album of new material.
 
Sept, 15th
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1965
Ford offers factory-installed 8-track tape players in its Mustang, Thunderbird and Lincoln models.
This marks the first time 8-track players are widely available, so you can only get the tapes in auto parts stores or Ford dealers.
The players have a tendency to chew up the tapes, leading to 8-track roadkill as drivers throw the tangled tapes out their windows.

This is the first time 8-track players are widely available, so the tapes are sold not at record stores, but in auto parts stores or Ford dealerships.To this point, the only listening option in cars is radio, since putting a record player in a car would be a bit awkward (and skip), and the cassette format isn't ready for prime time.

This means that for the first time, drivers can choose the music they listen to in the car.Before 8-track, there was 4-track, and some of those players were custom installed - Frank Sinatra had one.

It was while driving in such a 4-track equipped car that Lear Jet maker Bill Lear got the idea to improve the technology and create the 8-track.The 8-track automobile revolution spills out of cars and into living rooms, making it a popular listening choice and a threat to vinyl, since it takes up less room and songs can be selected with the press of a button instead of the drop of a needle. But there are some serious flaws, most glaringly the tendency of the players to chew up the tapes, leading to piles of tangled tapes on American roadsides as drivers hurl them out their windows in frustration.

And also, they only hold, " eight tracks", so there's a good chance you'll be missing a song or two.
The rise of the compact cassette dooms the 8-track to obscurity in the '80s. nd unlike vinyl, there's little nostalgia for the format, since listeners don't appreciate tape hiss like they do pops and crackles.

But beauty is in the ear of the beholder, and those with fond memories of the format can find 8-track players and tapes on eBay or head to the 8 Track Shack.

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Sept, 15th
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1978 - Bob Dylan
..... kicked off his longest and most continuous US tour of his career in Augusta, Maine, playing the first of sixty-five gigs in sixty-two cities.

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1979
Led Zeppelin's album In Through The Out Door hits #1 in the US, displacing Get The Knack by The Knack.
- It stays on top for seven weeks, but ends up being their swan song when drummer John Bonham dies a year later.

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