Celebrating 13 November
Birthdays
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1944 – Timmy Thomas, US R&B singer/musician
1949 – Roger Steen, guitarist, The Tubes
1949 – Terry Reid, rock vocalist (and nearly in Led Zeppelin....)
1951 – Bill Gibson, drummer, Huey Lewis and the News
1953 – Andrew Ranken, drummer, The Pogues
1960 – Wayne Parker, bassist, Glass Tiger
1978 – Nikolai Fraiture, bassist, The Strokes
1980 – Monique Adrienne Coleman, singer, High School Musical
1993 – Julia Michaels, US singer/songwriter
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Died on this day
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1992 – Ronnie Bond, drummer, The Troggs (born 1940)
2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, Wu-Tang Clan, (born 1968)
2014 – Mike Burney, saxophonist, Wizzard (born 1938)
2016 – Leon Russell, pianist/songwriter (born 1942)
2021 – Phil Margo, singer, The Tokens (born 1942)
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And on this day in...
2000 - The Beatles launched their first ever official website
2012 - The original of Peter Blake's collage for Sgt Pepper was auctioned in London for $87,720
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