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Born On This Day In #CoSoMusic
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1996 - Spice Girls
The Spice Girls made their debut on UK TV music show Top Of The Pops performing their debut single ' Wannabe' which gave them their first of nine UK chart toppers.
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1993 - Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine walked out on stage naked at their Lollapalooza set in Philadelphia in a protest against censorship by appearing completely nude except for black electrical tape over their mouths. They stood in protest for their full 15 allocated minutes of stage time with the letters PMRC written on their chests, a reference to the Parents Music Resource Center.
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1987 - Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen played his first ever show behind the Iron Curtain when he appeared in East Berlin in front of 180,000 people. The show was broadcast on East German TV.
1986 - Peter Gabriel
Genesis went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Invisible Touch'. The bands former lead singer Peter Gabriel was at No.2 with 'Sledgehammer'.
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1980 - Queen
Queen scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Game', featuring the single 'Another One Bites The Dust'.
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1976 - David Coverdale
Deep Purple split up at the end of an UK tour. David Coverdale went on to form Whitesnake, Jon Lord and Ian Paice formed a band with Tony Ashton. The classic line up of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord & Paice reformed in 1984. Glenn Hughes returned to Trapeze and Tommy Bolin put together his own band, (but would die before the end of the year).
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1975 - Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Listen To What The Man Said', his fourth US No.1, and No.6 hit in the UK, (the track features Tom Scott playing the saxophone solo). It would go on to sell a million copies in America and reach No.6 in the UK. Wings also had the US No.1 album chart with 'Venus And Mars'. Paul McCartney's fourth No.1 album since The Beatles.
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1974 - Ozark Music Festival
The Ozark Music Festival was held over three days on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri. One of the largest music festivals ever held, some estimates have put the crowd count at 350,000 people. Acts who appeared included, BachmanโTurner Overdrive, Blue รyster Cult, the Eagles, America, Marshall Tucker Band, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Boz Scaggs, Ted Nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd,Electric Flag, Joe Walsh, Aerosmith and Spirit.
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1972 - Mick Jagger
Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were arrested in Warwick, Rhode Island on charges of assault after a fight broke out with a newspaper photographer.
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The group agreed to be shown in the studio recording a song written especially for the occasion, (which was aired on June 25). John Lennon wrote โAll You Need is Loveโ which was thought to sum up the 1967 'summer of love' and The Beatles' sympathies.
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1967 - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was working on his latest movie Speedway co-starring Nancy Sinatra at the MGM Soundstage, Hollywood, California. (It was Presley's twenty-seventh film).
1954 - Elvis Presley
Sun Records released the first Elvis Presley single, 'That's All Right', a cover of Arthur Crudup's 1946 tune 'That's All Right, Mama'. Only about 7,000 original copies were pressed, but the disc became a local hit in Memphis.
@TheNewsOwl This song still gives me the feeling of being a kid in S. FL at Grandmaโs house, & the entire world was just fun & sunshine. And then it hits that bittersweet ending โฆ
A later LP release of Greatest Hits somehow omitted this #1 hit entirely
@TheNewsOwl I know Bay City pretty well...small industrial town in MI :)
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He is the BEST!
@TheNewsOwl Sledgehammer was my jam when I was a wee one. My Mom would turn on VH1 because it was the only thing to keep me distracted while she cleaned house.
That was by far my favorite video.
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1981 - Roy Orbison
It was Roy Orbison Day in Odessa, Texas. Orbison was given the keys to the city, and performed for the crowd, the first time in Odessa in 15 years.