This day in 'Musical' history

Oct 20th:
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1967 - Davy Jones
Davy Jones of The Monkees opened his own 'Zilch', boutique .

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The shop at 217 Thompson Street in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.
The store sold "hip" clothing and accessories, and also allowed customers to design their own clothes.

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1977
Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines from Lynyrd Skynyrd were all killed along with manager Dean Kilpatrick when their rented plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a densely wooded thicket in the middle of a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
The crash seriously injured the rest of the band and crew who were due to play at Louisiana

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Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash - Wikipedia
 

Oct 20th:
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1977
In town for a gig with The Police, Sting kills some time by walking through the red light district of Paris.
Watching the ladies of the night ply their trade gives him the inspiration for what becomes the band's first hit: "Roxanne."

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2001
Raising money for victims of the September 11th attacks, Paul McCartney leads "The Concert For New York" in Madison Square Garden.

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all participate.

The Concert for New York City - Wikipedia
 
Oct 21st:
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1967
Lulu's "To Sir With Love" hits #1 in the US for the first of five weeks. Lulu performs the song in the movie of the same name,

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where she portrays a high school student taught by Sidney Poitier.

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1968
Johnny Cash wins best album at the Country Music Awards for his live release Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
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1976 - The Who
Keith Moon played his last show with The Who at the end of a North American tour at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
--- On September 7, 1978, Moon died of an overdose of a sedative Heminevrin, that had been prescribed to prevent seizures induced by alcohol
 

Oct 21st:
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1992
Madonna's book Sex is released. Everything about it is shocking: the $50 price, the Mylar wrapping, the metal covers, and especially the images inside.

Steven Meisel's photos show the singer naked in various erotic scenes, and a few celebrities show up as well, including Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Campbell and Vanilla Ice."Everything you are about to see and read is a fantasy, a dream, pretend,"

Madonna writes in the introduction.Sex is not a new topic for Madonna: This is the same girl who cooed about being "touched for the very first time" in "Like A Virgin" and writhed in ecstasy across the stage at the VMAs. The one who was fired by Pepsi and condemned by the Vatican for kissing a black priest and dancing in front of burning crosses in "Like A Prayer." The one banned from MTV for her racy "Justify My Love" video.

All mere flirtation before getting down to the dirty deed that is Sex.

The book is a cavalcade of carnal adventures led by our mistress of ceremonies, Dita Parlo (named for the German actress of the 1930s), the singer's alter ego who wears little more than a good tooth adorned wit a 'D.' Within the book's steamy pages, Dita tells titillating tales of her sexual fantasies with visual accompaniment ranging from explicit body piercings to S&M play. Aside from boyfriend Vanilla Ice, actress Isabella Rossellini joins the singer for a skinny dip in a pool, while model Naomi Campbell and rapper Big Daddy Kane appear for various nude romps.

The book is sealed in a Mylar bag to shield its shocking content from prying eyes and to simulate opening a condom wrapper. Critics slam Madonna for going too far in the name of shock value, with some claiming the collection is childish rather than revolutionary. "

I don't have the same hang-ups that other people do, and that's the point I'm trying to make with this book," Madonna defends the work to Vanity Fair. "I don't think that sex is bad. I don't think that nudity is bad. I don't think that being in touch with your sexuality and being able to talk about it and being able to talk about this person and their sexuality [is bad].

I think the problem is that everybody's so uptight about it that they make it into something bad when it isn't, and if people could talk about it freely, we would have people practicing more safe sex, we wouldn't have people sexually abusing each other, because they wouldn't be so uptight to say what they really want, what they really feel."Erotica,

Madonna's latest album, serves as a musical companion to Sex, with Mistress Dita opening the title track with a growling promise to "put you in a trance."

The single's music video pulls back the curtain on the book's nude photo sessions, with Madonna lounging topless on a man's lap and cruising naked on a motorcycle. It's quickly banned by MTV, but as always, controversy works in Madonna's favor. The album peaks at #2 and Sex becomes the fastest-selling coffee table book of all time with over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide.

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Oct 22nd:
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1961
Chubby Checker performs a medley of "The Twist" and "Let's Twist Again" on TV's Ed Sullivan Show, sparking chart revivals for both tunes ("The Twist" even returns to #1).
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1964
The Who then known as The High Numbers, receive a letter from EMI Records, asking them for original material after their recent audition for the company.
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1966
The Supremes became the first female group to have a No.1 album on the US chart with 'The Supremes a Go Go', knocking The Beatles Revolver from the top of the charts.
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Oct 22nd:
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1989 - Ewan MacColl
English folk singer, songwriter, poet, and record producer Ewan MacColl died aged 74.
He wrote 'Dirty Old Town' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', (became a No.1 hit for Roberta Flack in 1972).
Acts including Planxty, The Dubliners, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash recorded his songs.
  • He was the father of singer, songwriter Kirsty MacColl.
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1993 - Oasis
Oasis signed a six-album deal with Creation Records for a £40,000 advance.
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1999 - Sinead O'Connor
It was reported that Sinead O’Connor was attempting to buy the church where she was ordained into the Catholic sisterhood.
The church was on the market for £70,000.
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Oct 22nd:
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2005 - Abba
Waterloo by ABBA was voted the best song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Viewers in 31 countries across Europe voted during a special show in Copenhagen to celebrate the annual event's 50th birthday.
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2012
Garth Brooks is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. George Strait, Bob Seger, and James Taylor perform at the ceremony.
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2021 - Adele
Adele returned to the UK Singles Chart after a five-year absence when her single 'Easy on Me' entered the chart at No.1.
Adele also set a new chart record with the single as 'Easy On Me' racked up 24 million streams in the UK in its first week of release, the most streams for a song in one week.
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Oct 23rd:
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1979
The Police shoot the video for "Walking On The Moon" in front of a Saturn V rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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1984
The BBC runs a news report showing shocking and disturbing footage of famine in Ethiopia.
Bob Geldof sets up the Band-Aid relief effort, which releases the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" a little over a month later.
--- Geldof later organizes Live Aid to assist in relief efforts.

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1995 - Def Leppard
Def Leppard gave themselves a place in the Guinness book Of World Records, by playing three gigs in three continents in 24 hours.
Tangier, London and Vancouver.

Def Leppard - Wikipedia
 
Oct 23rd:
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2002 - Chuck Berry
A federal judge in St. Louis dismissed a lawsuit against Chuck Berry by Johnnie Johnson, a piano player and former collaborator who wanted royalties for more than 30 songs written between 1955 and 1966.

The songs in question included ‘No Particular Place To Go’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, and ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’.
Johnson's lawsuit argued that he and Berry were co-writers on many of the songs, but because Berry copyrighted them in his name alone, Johnson got none of the royalties.
--- The judge ruled that too many years had passed to bring about a royalties suit.

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2010
Buffalo Springfield reunite after a 43-year stage absence for Neil Young's annual Bridge School benefit concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
Other acts on the roster include
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2016
Dead Or Alive lead singer Pete Burns dies of a heart attack at age 57.
Known for the 1985 hit "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record),"
  • Burns estimated that he had 300 plastic surgeries in his lifetime.
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Oct 24th:
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1964
The T.A.M.I. show (Teenage Music International Show) concert is held in Santa Barbara, California, featuring
The concert is released as a movie later in 1964.

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1973
John Lennon sues the US Government alleging that he and his lawyer were bugged and wiretapped while he was fighting deportation and during the government's investigation of "radical" antiwar elements in society.

Lennon’s simple and most enduring message, “Give peace a chance,” roused many fans to protest the Vietnam War alongside him in the late 1960s and 1970s.
It also caused the United Stated government to suspect him of being a radical threat, and soon enact a thorough surveillance program on him.

After Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famed “bed-ins” in Montreal and Amsterdam, which nonviolently protested the war, the FBI began keeping elaborate records on the Beatle, including taking notes on his media appearances and wiretapping his phone.
Their efforts culminated in an attempt to have Lennon deported to England, especially as he became more vocal about rallying young voters against Richard Nixon on the eve of the 1972 election.

Lennon, in turn, sued the FBI for the illegal wiretapping.
The FBI denied the charge; as excerpted in historian Jon Wiener’s book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, officials pointed out that there were no wiretapping logs in their Lennon surveillance file (unlike Martin Luther King, Jr.’s file).
It was a suspicious defense, but enough for Lennon to scale back his activity in the anti-Nixon movement to avoid deportation.
He secured his green card to stay in America in 1976.
 
Oct 24th
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1975
Bob Dylan records "Hurricane," his song about the incarcerated boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

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2004 - Queen
Queen became the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran.
Western music was still strictly censored in the Islamic republic, where homosexuality is considered a crime, but an album of Queen's greatest hits was released this week in Iran.
Freddie Mercury, was proud of his Iranian ancestry, and illegal bootleg albums and singles had made Queen one of the most popular bands in Iran.
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2006 - Foxy Brown
Rapper Foxy Brown was sentenced to three years probation for assaulting two New York nail salon workers in 2004.
Brown had kicked and punched employees during a dispute over payment for a pedicure and manicure in August 2004.
She had been threatened with jail after failing to turn up to court.
 
Oct 25th:
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1963 - The Beatles
The Beatles kicked off their first tour of Sweden by playing two shows at Nya Aulan, Sundstavagen, Karlstad, Sweden.
The local pop reviewer was not impressed, saying The Beatles should be grateful to their screaming fans for drowning out the group's terrible performance, adding that The Beatles "were of no musical importance whatsoever and that their local support group, The Phantoms, decidedly outshone them."

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1964 - Ed Sullivan
The Rolling Stones appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show from New York, performing the songs ‘Around And Around’ and ‘Time Is On My Side’.
A riot broke out in the studio, prompting Sullivan’s infamous quote, ‘I promise you they’ll never be back on our show again.’

  • The Rolling Stones went on to make a further five appearances on Sullivan’s show between 1965 and 1969.
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1968 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin played a gig at Surrey University, England. Although there are unconfirmed reports of earlier shows, this appears to be the band's first gig with their new name after initially performing as The New Yardbirds.
In 2003 a poster for the Surrey gig (billing the group as The New Yardbirds) sold at auction for £2,400.

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Oct 25th:
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1975 - Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of 'I Only Have Eyes For You.'
Written in 1934 for the film Dames the song was a No.2 hit for Ben Selvin in 1934 and most notably a hit for The Flamingos in 1959.


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1977
Elton John appears on The Muppet Show, where he performs "Crocodile Rock,"


"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." Elton is one of the inspirations for Dr. Teeth of the Muppets' house band, The Electric Mayhem.

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Oct 25th
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1986
For the first time in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, the top three spots were held by female solo acts.
  • Cyndi Lauper's 'True Colors' held down the No.1 position, followed by
  • Tina Turner's 'Typical Male' at No.2 and
  • Janet Jackson's 'When I Think Of You' at No.3.
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1995
Cliff Richard is invested as Sir Cliff Richard, becoming the first pop star to receive a knighthood for services to music.

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(Bob Geldof received his honorary knighthood nine years earlier).
 
Oct 25th:
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1997
During a concert in Flint, Michigan, Johnny Cash tells the crowd he has Parkinson's Disease after he falls over trying to pick up a guitar pick.
The crowd thinks he's joking, but Cash's manager confirms it in a statement two days later.

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2000
Billy Ray Cyrus lends his support to Second Harvest Food Bank when his tour bus stops in 16 different locations on Nashville's Music Row throughout the day to collect food for Harvest 2000.

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-- Later the same night, he headlines a concert benefiting the charity.

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2011
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith falls in a shower during a stay in a Paraguay hotel, knocking out two teeth.
A local dentist repairs the famous mouth, and Tyler performs the next day

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Oct 26th:
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1958
The first rock concert in Germany is held in Berlin, and it doesn't go well, as agitated youth fight during a performance by Bill Haley and his Comets. By the time police clear the Berlin Sportpalast, where the concert is held, five policemen and six audience members are seriously injured.

https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-musical-riots-and-assorted-mayhem/
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1965 - The Beatles
Queen Elizabeth II invested The Beatles with their MBE's at Buckingham Palace, London.

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According to an account by John Lennon the group smoked marijuana in one of the palace bathrooms to calm their nerves, although George Harrison said it was just tobacco.

Many former recipients gave their MBE's back in protest, to which John Lennon responded "Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war, for killing people." He continued: "We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
Harrison and Paul McCartney put the awards on their jackets for the Sgt. Pepper album cover;
  • Lennon sends his back in 1969.
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Oct 26th:
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1968 - San Francisco Pop Festival
The two day San Francisco Pop Festival was held at Alameda County Fairgrounds.
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1993 - Madonna
Catholic churches in San Juan, Puerto Rico asked residents to tie black ribbons on trees in protest against Madonna's first live appearance in the country.

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Oct 26th:
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2001
The science fiction film Donnie Darko, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a troubled teen who suffers from hallucinations, premieres in US theaters.
The movie features Gary Jules' haunting cover of Tears For Fears' 1982 song "Mad World."

Donnie Darko's composer, Michael Andrews, and his longtime pal Jules recorded the stripped-down piano rendition of the synthpop hit when the film's director, Richard Kelly, couldn't secure the rights to U2's "MLK."

Kelly loved the demo so much, he incorporated it into the end sequence of the film.
The song turned out to be a perfect fit for the movie, as the title character is a 1980s teen struggling to survive with his own mad world spiraling out of control.


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2011 - Amy Winehouse
A coroner's inquest on the death of Amy Winehouse reached a verdict of misadventure.
The report explained that Winehouse's blood alcohol content was 416 mg per decilitre at the time of her death, more than five times the legal drink-drive limit.

According to the coroner ‘The unintended consequences of such potentially fatal levels was her sudden death’.

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Oct 27th:
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1957
Police in Oakland, California, inform Elvis Presley that he is not allowed to swivel his hips onstage in tonight's performance at the Oakland Auditorium; Elvis responds by sarcastically wiggling only his little finger while singing.
The cops film the show anyway, just in case.

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1964 - Sonny and Cher
31 year old Salvatore Philip Bono married 18 year old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere in their own unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico,

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For a time they performed together as Caesar and Cleo before changing the name of their act to Sonny and Cher.
Though they exchange vows and wedding rings in their first home, their publicity materials cite this as the day of their wedding, but the duo does not officially marry until 1969.
Their union lasted 12 years.
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Oct 27th:
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1975
Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of both Time and Newsweek amid acclaim for his third album, Born To Run.

1975

Springsteen's first two albums, both released in 1973, earned him some ink in publications like Creem, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone, but his first big cover story isn't a music magazine, it's Time and Newsweek, the two biggest news magazines in America.

Orchestrated by his producer-manager Mike Appel, it's quite a publicity blast for Springsteen, who has spent the last several years pounding away in clubs, mostly in and around his native New Jersey.

Both articles tell his compelling underdog story, describing him as a workmanlike rocker with the pen of a poet.
But he's running out of time:
With his first two albums underperforming, Born To Run, released two months earlier, may be his last chance.Springsteen comes off grounded and unflappable, a sharp contrast to the many acts record companies have been foisting on the public that haven't lived up to the hype (Barnaby Bye, Judi Pulver).

It helps that Springsteen is championed by John Hammond, the Columbia Records executive who also signed Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin.The articles tell the stories that will form the bedrock of Springsteen's legend: how he bought his first guitar for $18 and would hitchhike into Greenwich Village, where he encountered the peculiar swath of humanity that became the characters in his songs. And unlike the stereotypical rocker, he stays away from drugs, drinks in moderation, and is especially courteous around women.

All good talking points.All this press gives Springsteen a huge boost, but he's not exactly "Rock's New Sensation," as Time declares in their headline. Born To Run gets him on solid ground, but his biggest hit, the title track, tops out at #23. His momentum stalls in 1976 when he gets in a legal battle with Appel that keeps him from performing for over a year, a time he devotes to songwriting and performing.

The music magazines, at first leary of his mainstream success, cheer him on when he returns in 1978 with Darkness on the Edge of Town, which Dave Marsh hails as a record that "changes fundamentally the way we hear rock & roll." His glowing review appears in Rolling Stone, which gives him the cover for the first time.

Over the next few years, Springsteen builds a fervent, almost devotional following and becomes known for his songwriting - his song "Fire" is a #2 hit for the Pointer Sisters in 1979. But it's not until 1984 with his album Born in the U.S.A. that he becomes an arena act and Platinum seller (Born To Run isn't certified Platinum until 1986). This wave of acclaim is far more overarching and trenchant than the Time/Newsweek blast.

Finding an audience is no longer a problem, but getting his point across is. The song "Born In The U.S.A." is about Vietnam veteran who is neglected when he returns home, but this song is heard by many as a flag-waving, patriotic anthem. Ronald Reagan even mentions Springsteen in a campaign speech - not what he had in mind.
 
Oct 27th:
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2000 - Lonnie Donegan
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Lonnie Donegan went to Buckingham Palace to receive his MBE for his services to pop music.
Lonnie pioneered skiffle in the 1950s and inspired a generation of teenagers to start bands.
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2007 - Keith Richards
Keith Richards marched with campaigners protesting against possible Sussex hospital cuts.

The Stones guitarist joined 15,000 people for the walk through Chichester to oppose plans which could see St Richard's Hospital downgraded.
A spokeswoman for the guitarist said: "Keith is a long-standing member of the West Wittering community and is pleased to lend his support to local efforts to save St Richard's Hospital.’

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Oct 28th:
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2008 - AC/DC
A statue honouring AC/DC's Bon Scott was unveiled at the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour in Western Australia.
Although born in Scotland, Scott grew up in Fremantle after his family emigrated to Australia in 1952.
Bon started out his newfound Australian life in Melbourne, his family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for 4 years before moving to Fremantle.

Scott was born in 1946 died on 20th February 1980. He is buried in Fremantle cemetery.

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2011 - Metallica
The organisers of a planned Metallica concert in India were arrested after the show was called off, leading fans of the band to destroy the stage and vandalize equipment.
Metallica had been booked to play in Delhi on Friday, but they postponed the show after a security barrier in front of the stage collapsed.

The four promoters of the gig, were arrested on fraud charges after they refused to refund tickets. Around 25,000 people had purchased tickets to see what would have been Metallica's first-ever concert in India.
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2022 - Jerry Lee Lewis
One of the last survivors of rock 'n' roll's golden age Jerry Lee Lewis died aged 87. Nicknamed "the Killer", he was described as Rock and roll's first great wild man and had worldwide hits with 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' and 'Great Balls of Fire'.

His life was also marred by scandal and violence.
His career was briefly halted when, aged 22, he married his 13-year-old cousin Myra Gale Brown.

In 1976 he accidentally shot his bass player, Norman "Butch" Owens, in the chest when playing with a loaded .357 Magnum.
His career was briefly halted when, aged 22, he married his 13-year-old cousin Myra Gale Brown.

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