Izzat Freddie Mercury in da middle?

Yes it is, first band/group.

Dec 6, 1969

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The Rolling Stones played at the infamous free concert festival in Altamont, California. Security was provided by the Hell's Angels motorcycle club. Angels stabbed one man to death, another man drowned, two other men were killed in hit-and-run accidents, and two babies were born.

Now that's a party.:devil:



2013

The electric guitar played by Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was sold at auction in New York for a record $965,000. The Fender Stratocaster had been in the possession of a New Jersey family for 48 years after Dylan left it on a private plane.

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John Winston Lennon

October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980

Dec 8, 2013

Heavy metal band Metallica perform a show in Antarctica (Freeze 'Em All), becoming the first band to perform on all seven continents.

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Full concert vid at the link.:devil:

Johnny Ace (1954), Dean Martin (1995), Bryan MacLean (1998), James Brown (2006), Eartha Kitt (2008), Vic Chestnutt (2009), Tony Bellamy (2009), and George Michael (2016) all died on Christmas day.

O'Kelly Isley (1937), Noel Redding (1945), Jimmy Buffet (1946), Barbara Mandrell (1948), Annie Lennox (1954), Allanah Myles (1958), and Dido (1971) were all born on Christmas day.

Dolores O'Riordan (of The Cranberries)

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September 6, 1971 - January 15, 2018

From Wiki:

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January 15, 1948 - October 20, 1977

Born on this day, to Lacy and Marion Van Zant, a son, Ronald Wayne.

January 16, 1992

Eric Clapton recorded his unplugged session for MTV. The set which included his current hit single 'Tears in Heaven' and a reworked acoustic version of 'Layla', earned six Grammy Awards for the album including Record of the Year.



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1996 - Jamaican authorities opened fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, Hemisphere Dancer, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono was also on the plane; neither singer was injured in the incident. The incident inspired Buffett to write a song called 'Jamaica Mistaica'.

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Nov 6, 1948 - January18, 2016

:blackr:

We're just at the beginning of a tidal wave of music legends about to buy the farm.

I've been thinking like that, too.

February 3, 1959 - The day the music died.

1967 - Producer Joe Meek shot his landlady Violet Shenton and then shot himself at his flat in London, Meek produced The Tornadoes hit 'Telstar', the first No.1 in the US by a British group. Meek was interested in spirituality and often attended séances . At one such meeting in 1958 he was warned that Buddy Holly would die on February 3. Meek tried his best to find Holly when he was in London to warn him but failed in his mission. Holly died on February 3, 1959.

February 7, 1959

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Buddy Holly was buried in Lubbock, Texas. His tombstone reads "Holley", the correct spelling of his given surname and includes pictures of a guitar.