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Fw: Music History for April 5

 

From: Jackie Schmitt





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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