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R.E.M. got together in the spring of '80 with University of Georgia students Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Michael Stipe.

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While in Florida, Ozzy Osbourne’s tour plane dive-bombs the tour bus. On one pass the plane clips the bus and goes out of control. The resulting crash kills three, including Ozzy’s guitarist supreme, Randy Rhodes. 1982
1940's  Guitarist Paul Atkinson (The Zombies) has a birthday. 1946
1950's  Elvis buys a house and names it Graceland. It’s Presley's home for twenty years. He even dies there and is (eventually) laid to rest on the Graceland grounds. 1957

1960's   
Two brilliant albums get their due. Jimi Hendrix Experience’s debut “Are You Experienced” and Bob Dylan’s “John Wesley Harding” both go gold. 1968

1970's  Jefferson Airplane becomes Jefferson Starship. Should have pulled the plug instead. 1974

Jimmy Eat World drummer Zach Lind has a birthday. 1976

Free guitarist Paul Kossoff dies from undetermined causes at the age of twenty-six on a London-to-New York flight. He had a history of heart disease. 1976

1990's   
The death of vocalist Andrew Wood from a heroin overdose means the end of Mother Love Bone but the beginning of Pearl Jam. Ex-Love Bone guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament recruit new members with vocalist Eddie Vedder suggesting the name. 1990

Sheryl Crow’s “Tuesday Night Music Club” enters the U.S. album survey. It stays on the chart for over a year, peaking at #3. 1994

The second installment of The Beatles’ “Anthology” is released. It contains “Real Love,” a Lennon demo with tracks added by Paul, George and Ringo. 1996

2000's   
Aerosmith (inducted by Kid Rock), Queen (inducted by the Foo Fighters) and Steely Dan are added to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. 2001

It`s announced that The Beatles' “Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and Bruce Springsteen's “Born to Run” albums are in the Library of Congress. The Library digitally stores and saves significant musical works. 2004

Paul Rodgers along with Queen’s guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor perform at the Nelson Mandela 46664 AIDS Awareness Concert in South Africa. 2005

This is our lives on holiday. Green Day is recognized for their musical contributions by the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy. Green Day is from the Bay Area. Nice. 2006

The Offspring's Dexter Holland runs in the Los Angeles Marathon. He raises money for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit charity that supports the legal funds of people wrongly convicted of crimes. 2006

Anthony Kiedis' bronchial pneumonia forces the Red Hot Chili Peppers postponed their Japan tour. Doctors order the vocalist not to fly for 10 days.

Director Peter Margolis interviews fans of the late Randy Rhoads, at the San Bernardino, CA, cemetery where he is buried. The interviews are for a documentary sanctioned by Rhoads' family. Rhoads died 25 years earlier, on this day (see above), at age 25. 2007

Eric Clapton performs with the Allman Brothers Band during their annual residency at New York's Beacon Theatre. Slowhand leads the Allmans through songs from his Derek And The Dominoes classic, “Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs.” The late great Duane Allman (guitar) was instrumental in the recording of that album. 2009

High-definition footage from Motley Crue's Crue Fest 2008 DVD is screened at dozens of U.S. theaters. Shot during the traveling festival's stop in Toronto, the DVD features the Crue plus performances by Buckcherry, Trapt, Sixx: A.M. and Papa Roach. 2009

Bruce Springsteen makes a guest appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. 2009


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