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BIRTHDAYS 1926: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton 1938: McCoy Tyner 1940: David Gates (Bread) 1944: Michael Lang (Concert promoter / producer / manager, best known as the co-creator of Woodstock Music Festival, 1969) 1948: Chester Thompson (Frank Zappa Band / Genesis / Weather Report / Steve Hackett Band / Santana) […]

BIRTHDAYS 1909: Leo Fender (Inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars) 1947: Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 1962: Julia Fordham EVENTS 1968: Cream started a 4-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Wheels of Fire‘. 1970: Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ was at No.1 on the […]