Celebrating 11 December
Birthdays
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1931 – Rita Moreno, singer, actress
1940 – David Gates, frontman and guitarist, Bread
1944 – Brenda Lee, Little Miss Dynamite
1944 – Michael Lang, co-creator of Woodstock
1948 – Chester Thompson, drummer, Genesis, Frank Zappa
1951 – Philip "Spike" Edney, keyboardist, Queen, Brian May
1954 – Jermaine Jackson, bassist/vocalist, The Jacksons
1958 – Nikki Sixx, bassist, Mötley Crüe
1960 – Rachel Portman, English film composer
1961 – Darryl Jones, bassist, Rolling Stones
1962 – Curtis Williams, keyboardist, Kool and the Gang
1964 – Justin Currie, bassist, Del Amitri
1967 – DJ Yella, US rapper, NWA
1972 – Easther Bennett, singer, Eternal
1973 –Yasiin Bey (mos Def), US rapper
1981 – Zacky Vengeance, guitarist, Avenged Sevenfold
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Died on this day
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1964 – Sam Cooke, the King of Soul (born 1931)
2012 – Ravi Shankar, sitar master (born 1920)
2023 – Jeffrey Foskett, guitarist, touring Beach Boy (born 1956)
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And on this day in...
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1982 – The Jam played their last ever gig, in Brighton, England
2016 – Bob Dylan receives the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, Sweden
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