Re: Fw: Music History for April 5
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Happy birthday to all and may all be celebrating a birthday next year? Mary Live long and prosper
Music History for
April 5
1958 - Irvin Feld's Greatest Show of Stars opened an 80-day tour of North America.?
1964 - The Searchers appeared on?The Ed Sullivan Show. It was the Searchers' U.S. debut.?
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel's single "Mrs. Robinson" was released.?
1974 - The Guess Who hosted a celebrity tennis tournament in Toronto to benefit Ballet of Canada.?
1977 - David Bowie appeared on Dinah Shore's TV special.??
1978 - Duran Duran made their live debut at The Lecture Theatre at Birmingham Polytechnic.?
1980 - The Genesis album?Duke?hit #1 in the U.K.?
1980 - In Athens, GA, R.E.M. played their first show when they appeared at St. Mary's Episcopal Church.?
1982 - After eight years of publication to the radio and recording industry,?Record World?magazine ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy protection.?
1983 - The Beach Boys were banned from the Fourth of July concert at the White House. U.S. President Ronald Reagan overturned the ban two days later.?
1985 - An estimated 5,000 radio stations around the world simultaneously played the song "We Are the World."?
1993 - Construction began on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH.?
1993 - In Beverly Hills, CA, Marky Mark Wahlberg had assault charges against him dropped. He had reached an out-of-court settlement with the man he allegedly beat in 1992.?
1994 - Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) killed himself with a shotgun. He was found three days later.?
1998 - Colin "Cozy" Powell died in a car crash. He was 50 years old.?
1999 - Three of Tammy Wynette's daughters filed a $50 million lawsuit that blamed Wynette's death on negligence by her husband and her doctor.?
1999 - The online song-lyric auction Hits Under the Hammer at??closed after raising $67,000 for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and for Norwood Ravenswood children's charities.?
2000 - Ziggy Marley became the official spokesman for the Hemp Bar.? |
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