Celebrating 7 December
Birthdays
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1949 – Tom Waits, US singer/songwriter
1954 – Mike Nolan, singer, Bucks Fizz
1958 – Tim Butler, bassist, Psychedelic Furs
1960 – Craig Scanlon, guitarist, The Fall
1961 – Rob Downes, guitarist, Then Jerico
1963 – Barbara Weathers, singer, Atlantic Starr
1963 – Claudia Brücken, singer, Propaganda
1965 – Brian Futter, guitarist, Catherine Wheel
1966 – Louise Post, guitarist, Veruca Salt
1969 – James Francis Brown, English composer
1973 – Damien Rice, Irish singer/songwriter
1973 – Claudia Brücken, vocalist, Propaganda
1974 – Nicole Appleton, singer, All Saints
1977 – Dominic Howard, drummer, Muse
1979 – Sara Bareilles, singer/songwriter
1986 – Jonathan Benjamin Gill, singer, JLS
1986 – Nita Strauss, guitarist, Alice Cooper
1987 – Aaron Carter, US singer
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Died on this day
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1977 – Dr Peter Carl Goldmark, invented the LP (born 1906)
2016 – Greg Lake, bassist, ELP, King Crimson (born 1947)
2021 – Steve Bronski, Bronski Beat (born 1960)
2023 – Adrian Morgan, bassist, The Cougars (born 1943)
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And on this day in...
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1967 – The Beatles' Apple store opened in Baker Street, London. Shambolic from the beginning, it was put out of its misery some seven months later.
1967 – Otis Redding recorded (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay. He died three days later in a plane crash; the song became the first
posthumous #1 single in the US
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