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in Rap Music7 Fantastic 50 Cent Tattoos
Hello 50 Cent fans, we have researched and listed the best 50 Cent tattoos for you, if you are thinking of getting an 50 Cent tattoo, be sure to check these tattoos, it can give you an idea. More
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Best 29 Daft Punk Tattoos and Tattoo ideas
Hello Daft Punk fans, we have researched and listed the best Daft Punk tattoos for you, if you are thinking of getting an Daft Punk tattoo, be sure to check these tattoos, it can give you an idea. More
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December 3, 2014 – Ian McLagan died of a stroke at age 69
McLagan became interested in rock & roll when he heard “Rock Around the Clock” at the age of 10. Initially a guitar player in skiffle groups, he took piano lessons only at his mother’s insistence. After hearing Booker T. and the M.G.’s, he became interested in playing the organ. He first started playing in bands […] More
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December 2, 2006 – Dutch singer Mariska Veres from Shocking Blue died of cancer at the age of 59.
Veres’ father was the Hungarian Romani violinist Lajos Veres; her mother was born in Germany of French and Russian parents. Her elder sister Ilonka accompanied her father on the piano. Her youngest sister, Irene, never had a career in music.Veres began her career as a singer in 1963 with the guitar band Les Mysteres. In […] More
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in on this day, Pop Music
November 30, 1982 – Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album was released
“Thriller” was recorded at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a production budget of $750,000. Sessions began on April 14, 1982 at 12:00 noon with Jackson and Paul McCartney recording “The Girl Is Mine”, and the album was completed with the final day of mixing on November 8, 1982. Several members of the […] More
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November 30, 2000 – Bassist Scott Smith a member of Loverboy, died at age 45.
He was sailing his boat, the 11-meter (36-foot) Sea Major, with two friends off the coast of San Francisco near the Golden Gate Bridge approximately four miles off of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach amid a voyage from Vancouver, British Columbia, to a marina south of Los Angeles, where he and Mayotte planned to be based […] More
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December 4, 2011 – Guitarist Hubert Sumlin died of heart failure at the age of 80
Raised in Hughes, Arkansas, Sumlin got his first guitar when he was eight years old, but his churchgoing mother admonished him for playing “the devil’s music” (aka “the blues”). But he found out, after sneaking in some blues licks on his guitar in church, which the sounds of the blues could win over even his […] More
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December 4, 1988 – Roy Orbison played his final gig
The concert was professionally recorded (“It’s Over” appears on the Roy Orbison box set “The Soul of Rock and Roll”) and the whole show is via Itunes as “Roy Orbison: The Last Concert.”Exhausted, he returned to his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee to rest for several days before flying again to London to film two videos […] More
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in Rock Music
December 4, 1976 Tummy Bolin died from a heroin overdose
Bolin began his musical career on drums when he was thirteen and played them for two years, then switched to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and then went back to guitar.He dropped out of high school at age sixteen and began playing in bands around the city as […] More
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in Rock Music
December 2, 1997 Michael Hedges died in a car crash
Hedges was born the son of Dr. Thayne Alden Hedges and Ruth Evelyn Hedges Ipsen. His life in music began in Enid, Oklahoma, as he flirted with various instruments before focusing on flute and guitar. He eventually enrolled at Phillips University in Enid to study classical guitar and composition under E. J. Ulrich. Subsequently, Hedges […] More
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in Rock Music
December4, 1993 Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer
On December 6th, his family publicly announced that “Composer Frank Zappa left for his final tour just before 6:00 pm on Saturday”.Zappa was survived by his wife of 26 years Gail Sloatman, who had managed much of Zappa’s business concerns in his later career, and their four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and […] More
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December 1, 2012 – The three remaining members of Led Zeppelin received a prestigious Kennedy Center award from Barack Obama
DECEMBER 1, 2012 – The three remaining members of Led Zeppelin received a prestigious Kennedy Center award from Barack Obama for their significant contribution to American culture and the arts. Dressed in black suits and bow ties, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page were among a group of artists who received Kennedy Center Honors […] More
