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01/01 Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942
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01/03 Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945
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01/04 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979
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01/08 David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947
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01/09 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945
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01/10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
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01/10 Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943
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01/10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952
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01/10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945
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01/13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973
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01/17 Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969
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01/19 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943
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01/22 Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935
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01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981
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01/24 Warren Zevon is born, 1947
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01/25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978
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01/27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930
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01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, 1756
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01/28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970
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01/30 Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982
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01/31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970
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02/01 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949
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02/02 Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942
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02/03 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big
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Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959
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02/07 Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964
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02/07 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979
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02/08 John Towner Williams born in New York City, 1932; composer
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well-known for his many motion picture and television scores
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02/09 Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941
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02/12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964
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02/17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982
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02/18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933
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02/19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in
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Britain, 1972
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02/19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940
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02/20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946
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02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974
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02/23 George Frideric Handel born, 1685
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02/23 Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944
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02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
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03/01 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969
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03/02 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949
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03/03 Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966
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03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678
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03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
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03/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973
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03/09 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945
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03/09 Samuel Barber is born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1910
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03/13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971
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03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944
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03/17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942
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03/21 Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany, 1685
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03/22 Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974
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03/25 Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943
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03/26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971
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03/29 Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973
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03/30 Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945
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04/02 Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939
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04/04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork,
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Mississippi, 1915
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04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898
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04/10 Paul McCartney announces he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
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04/14 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945
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04/18 Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981
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04/25 Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
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04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
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04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
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04/29 "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968
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05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909
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05/03 Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945
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05/07 Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg, 1833
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05/07 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky born, 1840
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05/10 Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945
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05/11 Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, 1981
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05/12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadraphonic concert, 1977
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05/18 Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
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05/19 Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945
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05/20 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967
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05/23 Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963
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05/24 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941
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05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886
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05/31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever -- 76,000 watts of PA, 1976
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06/01 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967
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06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
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06/06 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's \#1 slot, 1955
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06/07 Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969
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06/09 Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1923
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06/10 Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910
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06/10 Judy Garland born, 1922
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06/15 Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941
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06/16 The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967
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06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942
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06/21 Columbia records announces the first mass production of LPs, 1948
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06/22 Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948
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06/24 Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944
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07/02 Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969
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07/03 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971
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07/06 The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965
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07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940
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07/12 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Comiskey Park, 1979
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07/14 Woodie Guthrie born, 1912
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07/16 Cream forms in the U.K., 1966
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07/16 Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981
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07/17 "Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilon, 1968
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07/20 Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947
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07/25 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965
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07/25 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969
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07/26 Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943
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07/28 Bach dies, 1750
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07/28 The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973
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08/01 Birth of Jerome "Jerry" Garcia (Grateful Dead), 1942
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08/01 The Concert for Bangladesh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971
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08/04 John Lennon points out "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966
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08/09 Death of Jerome "Jerry" Garcia (Grateful Dead), 1995
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08/10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
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08/13 Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951
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08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey, 1962
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08/15 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965
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08/15 Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969
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08/26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
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08/26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970
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08/27 Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash, 1990
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09/07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978
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09/08 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841
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09/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno,
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California, 1945
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09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814
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09/16 B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925
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09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies of an overdose, 1970
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09/19 Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981
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09/20 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973
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09/23 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969
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09/23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949
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09/25 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980
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09/26 George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY, 1898
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10/03 Stevie Ray Vaughan born in Dallas, TX, 1954
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10/04 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970
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10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, 1943
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10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
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10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940
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10/10 John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946
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10/12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966
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10/16 Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947
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10/17 "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967
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10/18 Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, 1926
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10/20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977
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10/22 Franz Liszt born, 1811
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10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944
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10/25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964
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10/27 Lou Reed dies aged 71, 2013
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10/29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
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10/30 Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939
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11/02 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at \#1, 1968
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11/02 Keith Emerson is born, 1944
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11/03 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
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11/07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943
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11/08 Patti Page born, 1927
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11/09 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
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11/10 Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948
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11/12 Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945
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11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942
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11/16 Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965
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11/20 Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946
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11/20 Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947
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11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868
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11/25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976
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11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
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11/26 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968
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11/27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
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12/05 Mozart dies, 1791
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12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
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12/06 The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969
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12/07 Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
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12/08 Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
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12/08 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
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12/09 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
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12/13 Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949
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12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877
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12/16 Ludwig van Beethoven born in Bonn, Germany, 1770
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12/16 Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971
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12/21 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940
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12/23 First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
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12/28 Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946
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12/31 Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969
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