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• Peter Tork, a struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with the Monkees, has died

  21 février 2019

• February 21st 1976, Florence Ballard of The Supremes died of cardiac arrest, aged 32. Ballard had left The Supremes in 1967, lost an $8 million (£4.7 million) lawsuit against Motown records and was living on welfare when she died.

  20 février 2019

• February 21st 2004, Mud singer Les Gray died of a heart attack, whilst fighting throat cancer, aged 57, (1974 UK No.1 single 'Tiger Feet' plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles').

  20 février 2019

• February 21st 1952, Born on this day, Jean-Jacques Burnel, bassist, singer with The Stranglers who had the 1982 UK No.2 single 'Golden Brown' plus over 20 other UK Top 40 hits.

  20 février 2019

• June 25th 1967, 200 million people saw The Beatles perform 'All You Need Is Love', live via satellite as part of the TV global link- up, 'Our World', Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, Keith Moon and Gary Leeds provided backing vocals.

  24 juin 2019

• June 25th 1945, Born on this day, Carly Simon

  24 juin 2019

• June 25th 1935, Born on this day, Eddie Floyd, US soul singer, (1966 US No.28 & 1967 UK No.19 single 'Knock On Wood'). Wrote '634-5789 a 1966 hit for Wilson Pickett.

  24 juin 2019

• 25th June 1963, Born on this day, Georgios Panayiotou (George Michael)

  24 juin 2019

• 25th June 2009, Michael Jackson died at the age of 50

  24 juin 2019

• 20th February 1967, Born on this day, Kurt Cobain

  19 février 2019

• February 20th 1950, Born on this day, Walter Becker,

  19 février 2019

• February 20th 1941, Born on this day, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer, songwriter who had the 1971 UK No.7 single 'Soldier Blue'. She wrote 'Up Where We Belong' the 1982 US No.1 & UK No.7 for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes

  19 février 2019

• December 30th 1947, Born on this day, Jeff Lynne

  29 décembre 2020

• December 30th 1995, American saxophonist and guitarist Clarence Satchell from The Ohio Players died aged 55.

  29 décembre 2020

• December 30th 2009, Singer, songwriter Neil Young was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Other Canadian musicians who have been given the award include Bryan Adams, Leonard Cohen and the members of Rush.

  29 décembre 2020

• December 30th 1928, Born on this day, Bo Diddley

  29 décembre 2020

• 19 FEBRUARY 1963 Seal (real name: Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) is born in Paddington, England.

  18 février 2019

• February 19th 1957, Born on this day, Falco, (Hans Holzl), who had the1986 UK & US No.1 single 'Rock Me Amadeus'. Falco became the first-ever Austrian act to score a UK and US No.1 hit single. He was killed in a car accident on 6th February 1998.

  18 février 2019

• 19th February 1964, A British company shipped ½ ton of Beatle wigs to the US. An American reporter later asked John Lennon, "How do you feel about teenagers imitating you with Beatle wigs?" John replied "They're not imitating us because we don't wear Beatle wigs."

  18 février 2019

• February 18th 1959, Ray Charles recorded 'What'd I Say', in New York City. The song had evolved in concert as a call-and-response between Charles and his female back-up singers. It became Charles' biggest hit to date, reaching No.1 on the R&B and No.6 on the pop charts.

  17 février 2019

• February 18th 1954, Born on this day, John Travolta

  17 février 2019

• February 18th 1933, Born on this day, Yoko Ono, Japanese artist, singer, poet, author and peace activist and wife of John Lennon. Ono moved to New York City from Tokyo aged 14 and first met John Lennon in London in 1966, the couple married in 1969.

  17 février 2019

• 18 FEBRUARY 1964 The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali (known at the time as Cassius Clay) when they are visiting Miami.

  17 février 2019

• February 17th 1979, Blondie scored their first UK No.1 album when 'Parallel Lines' started a four-week run at the top of the charts, featuring the singles 'Heart Of Glass', 'Hanging On The Telephone' and 'Sunday Girl.'

  16 février 2019

• 17th February 1978, Kate Bush released her debut studio album The Kick Inside which contained her UK number one hit, 'Wuthering Heights', (marking the first time a female singer-songwriter topped the charts with a self-penned song). Bush was just 19 years old and had written some of the songs when she was only 13.

  16 février 2019