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Celebrating 9 October
Birthdays
1937 – Pat Burke, The Foundations
1944 – Nona Hendryx, Labelle
1948 – Jackson Browne, singer-songwriter
1954 – James Fearnley, accordion, The Pogues
1967 – Mat Osman, bassist, Suede
1970 – P.J. Harvey
1975 – Sean Lennon (son of John Lennon)
Died on this day
1978 – Jacques Brel, singer-songwriter (born 1929)
1988 – Cliff Gallup, guitarist, Gene Vincent (born 1930)
And on this day in...
1969 – BBC’s Top of the Pops refused to broadcast the UK's No. 1 record "Je T'Aime....Moi Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, deeming it obscene
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