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Celebrating 6 April

Birthdays

1941 – Louis Shelton, guitarist, The Wrecking Crew

1944 – John Stax, bassist, The Pretty Things

1947 – Tony Connor, drummer, Hot Chocolate

1951 – Ralph Cooper, drummer, Air Supply

1953 – Christopher Franke, keyboardist, Tangerine Dream

1965 – Black Francis (Charles Thompson), guitarist, The Pixies

1978 – Myleene Klass, singer, Hear'Say

1978 – Robert Glasper, R&B keyboardist, producer

Died on this day

1998 – Wendy O. Williams, vocalist, Plasmatics (born 1949)

1998 – Tammy Wynette, country singer (born 1942)

2004 – Niki Sullivan, guitarist, The Crickets (born 1937)

2016 – Merle Haggard, country singer/songwriter (born 1937)

2019 – Jim Glaser, country guitarist (born 1937)

And on this day in...

1966 – The Beatles started recording Revolver

1968 – Pink Floyd announced Syd Barrett had officially left the group

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