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• April 11th 1981, Eddie Van Halen married actress Valerie Bertinelli, co-star of the 1980's television hit, One Day at a Time. The two had met eight months earlier when Bertinelli's brother took her to a Van Halen concert in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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• April 11th 1977, Alice Cooper played to an audience of 40,000 in Sydney, Australia, the largest crowd to attend a rock concert in the country's history.

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• 11th April 2014, American musician and songwriter Jesse Winchester died aged 69

  10 avril 2020

• Today we remember the passing of the great John Warren « J. » Geils Jr. (February 20, 1946 – April 11, 2017) was an American guitarist who was a member of the rock group The J. Geils Band.

  10 avril 2020

• September 14th 1979, The film Quadrophenia was released. Based on The Who’s 1973 rock opera the film featured Phil Daniels, Toyah Willcox, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick and Sting.

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• March 15th 1975, The Doobie Brothers went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Black Water’, the group’s first of two US No.1’s.

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• March 15th 1969, Cream started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with their fourth and final original album ‘Goodbye.’ The single, ‘Badge’, (which was written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison, ) was subsequently released from the album a month later.

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• September 14th 1949, Born on this day, Steve Gaines, guitar, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1974 US No. 8 single ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, 1982 UK No.21 single ‘Freebird’). Killed in a plane crash on 20th October 1977.

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• March 14th 1991, American songwriter and Blues singer Doc Pomus died from lung cancer aged 65

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• March 13th 1939, Born on this day, Neil Sedaka, singer, songwriter, (1959 UK No.3 single ‘Oh Carol’ plus over 30 US & 14 UK other Top 40 singles, 1962 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Breaking Up Is Hard To Do’).

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• January 20th 1947, Born on this day, George Grantham, drums, Poco, (1979 US No.17 single 'Crazy Love').

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• January 20th 1952, Born on this day, Paul Stanley

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• Le 20 janvier 2018 , décès de Mario Guccio, le chanteur de Machiavel

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• January 20th 1945, Born on this day, Eric Stewart, guitar, keyboards, vocals, Mindenders, (1966 UK No.2 single Groovy Kind Of Love'), Hotlegs, (1970 UK No.2 single 'Neanderthal Man'), 10cc, (1975 UK No.1 & US No. 2 single 'I'm Not In Love' plus 10 other Top 30 hits).

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• Alwin Lopez « Al » Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017)

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• March 12th 1948, Born on this day, James Taylor, US singer, songwriter, (1971 US No.1 & UK No.4 single ‘You’ve Got A Friend’. His first album was released on The BeatlesApple label. Taylor married Carly Simon in 1972.

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• April 10th 1962, The Beatles former bass player Stuart Sutcliff died, (original bassist for eighteen months - January 1960 - June 1961). Sutcliff had stayed in Hamburg Germany after leaving the group. He died of a brain haemorrhage in an ambulance on the way to hospital, aged 22.

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• April 10th 1970, Doors singer Jim Morrison was dragged off stage by keyboardist Ray Manzarek during a concert in Boston, after Morrison asked the audience, 'Would you like to see my genitals?'. Theater management quickly switched off the power. Morrison had been arrested in Miami a year earlier for "lewd and lascivious behavior" during a performance.

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• April 10th 1994, Over 5,000 fans attended a US public memorial service for Kurt Cobain at Seattle Flag Pavilion.

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• April 10th 1959, Born on this day, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter Brian Setzer, guitar, vocals, The Stray Cats who spearheaded the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 1980s. They scored the 1980 UK No.9 single 'Runaway Boys', and the 1983 US No.3 single 'Stray Cat Strut'. He later worked with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

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• March 11th 1955, Born on this day, Nina Hagen, German singer, songwriter, The Nina Hagen Band.

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• March 10th 1964, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded ‘The Sounds Of Silence’ as an acoustic duo. It wasn’t until record company producers added electric guitar, bass and drums, without the knowledge of Paul and Art, that the song would become a hit in late 1965.

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• March 10th 1950, Born on this day, Ted McKenna, drummer, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, (1975 UK No.7 single ‘Delilah’).

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• March 10th 1947, Born on this day, Tom Scholz, guitar, keyboards, Boston, (1977 UK No.23 single ‘More Than A Feeling’, 1986 US No.1 single ‘Amanda’).

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• March 10th 1963, Born on this day, Jeff Ament, bass, Pearl Jam, (1992 UK No.15 single ‘Jeremy’, 1993 US No.1 & UK No.2 album ‘Vs’, 1994 US No.1 & UK No.4 album Vitalogy’ and 1996 US No.1 & UK No.3 album ‘No Code’).

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