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Music on the 17th of July in history

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17 Jul 1938 birth Stan Brostein, sax, Elephant's Memory, worked with John Lennon on his 1972 album 'Some Time In New York City'.
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17 Jul 1941 birth Spencer Davis, guitar, (1966 UK No.1 single 'Keep On Running' 1967 US No.7 single 'Gimme Some Lovin').
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17 Jul 1946 Petula Clark made her UK television debut appearing on the Cabaret TV series at the age of 13. Clark began with guest spots on radio when she was only 9 and made her first film a year later. ‘Put Your Shoes On Lucy’ was released as her debut release in 1949, her ‘The Little Shoemaker’ became her first U.K. hit in 1954.
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17 Jul 1947 birth Wolfgang Flur, electronic drums, Kraftwerk, (1975 US No.25 single, 'Autobahn', 1982 UK No.1 single 'Computer Love / The Model').
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17 Jul 1948 birth Ron Asheton, guitar, Iggy Pop And The Stooges, (1973 album 'Raw Power'). Asheton died on on January 6th 2009.
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17 Jul 1949 birth Geezer Butler, bass, Black Sabbath, (1970 UK No.4 single 'Paranoid', the bands self-titled 1970 album was voted as the best British rock albums ever by Kerrang! in 2005).
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17 Jul 1949 birth Mick Tucker, drums, Sweet, (1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK top 40 singles). Tucker died of leukaemia on 14th February 2002.
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17 Jul 1949 birth Mike Vale, bass, Tommy James and the Shondells, (1966 US No.1 single 'Hanky Panky', 1968 UK No.1 single 'Mony Mony').
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17 Jul 1950 birth Otis Damon Harris, vocals, The Temptations, (1971 UK No.8 single 'Just My Imagination' and re-issued 'My Girl' UK No.2 in 1992). Harris died on February 18th 2013 at the age of 62 after a 14-year battle with prostate cancer. Harris was a member of The Temptations from 1971 to 1975, joining shortly after the departure of Eddie Kendricks.
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17 Jul 1952 birth Chet McCracKen, drums, The Doobie Brothers, (1979 US No.1 single 'What A Fool Believes', 1993 UK No.7 single 'Long Train Runnin').
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17 Jul 1952 birth Phoebe Snow, US singer, songwriter, (1975 US No.5 single 'Poetry Man', 1979 UK No.37 single 'Every Night').
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17 Jul 1959 Billie Holiday died in a New York City hospital from cirrhosis of the liver after years of alcohol abuse, aged 43. (While under arrest for heroin possession, with Police officers stationed at the door to her room.) In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with $0.70 in the bank.
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17 Jul 1963 birth Regina Belle, US singer, (1993 US No.1 & UK No.12 single with Peabo Bryson, 'A Whole New World, Aladdin's Theme').
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17 Jul 1966 birth Lou Barlow, bass, Dinosaur Jr, (1993 UK No.20 single 'Start Choppin').
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17 Jul 1967 American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Long Island, New York, aged 40. Worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie. Released the 1964 album ‘A Love Supreme’.
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17 Jul 1967 The Beatles single 'All You Need Is Love / Baby You're A Rich Man' (originally called 'One Of The Beautiful People') was released in the US. It became The Beatles 14th US No.1.
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17 Jul 1968 The animated film Yellow Submarine, premiered at The London Pavilion. The Beatles made a cameo appearance in the film but didn't supply their own voices for the characters.
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17 Jul 1970 birth Mandy Smith, in 1983 at age 13 she started dating the then 47 year old Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. The couple married in 1989, divorced 1992. Smith became a singer, model and actress, released records with SAW none of which charted. Wyman's son dated Mandy's mother.
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17 Jul 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on the BBC late night talk show, Parkinson, where John chastised the British media for calling Yoko "ugly" and for saying that she broke up The Beatles.
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17 Jul 1971 birth Jarrett Cordes, DJ Minutemix, PM Dawn, (1991 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'Set Adrift On Memory Bliss').
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17 Jul 1972 A bomb exploded under The Rolling Stones equipment van in Montreal, believed to be the work of French separatists. Angry fans rioted throwing bottles and rocks after 3,000 tickets for the show turned out to be fake.
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17 Jul 1974 The Moody Blues opened what they claimed was the first 'Quadraphonic' recording studio in the world.
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17 Jul 1975 Bob Marley and the Wailers played the first of two nights at The Lyceum, London, and both nights were recorded for the November released 'live' album, featuring the single 'No Woman No Cry.'
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17 Jul 1976 Demis Roussos was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Roussos Phenomenon EP'. It was the Greek singers only UK chart topper and the only No.1 EP to top the charts in the 1970's.
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17 Jul 1978 Simple Minds made their live debut at The Satellite Club, Glasgow.
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17 Jul 1979 Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy during a US tour and was replaced by ex Slick & Rich Kids guitarist Midge Ure.
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17 Jul 1982 Irene Cara was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Fame', which was based on the hit TV series about a New York drama school. Cara (who played the role of Coco Hernandez in the original movie) won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for the same.
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17 Jul 1982 birth Natasha Hamilton, vocals, Atomic Kitten, (2000 UK No.1 single 'Whole Again').
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17 Jul 1985 birth Tom Fletcher, guitar, vocals, McFly, (2004 UK No.1 single ‘Colours In Her Hair’, 2004 UK No.1 album ‘Room On The 3rd Floor’).
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17 Jul 1987 The Ozzy Osbourne Band started a 16-week tour of US prisons.
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17 Jul 1992 The first night of a North American tour by Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Faith No More tour opened at the RFK Stadium in Washington DC.
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17 Jul 1993 Take That had their first UK No.1 single with 'Pray'. Their first of 8 No.1's, they went on to be the most successful British boy band of the 1990s.
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17 Jul 1993 Guns N’ Roses appeared at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in front of 80,000 people, the final show on their Use Your Illusion Tour. A highlight of the night was English drummer Cozy Powell playing drums with Matt Sorum, dressed as a Domino's Pizza delivery boy.
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17 Jul 1995 Robbie Williams left Take That. The group had scored six UK No.1 singles and two No.1 albums with Robbie in the group.
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17 Jul 1996 Chas Chandler died aged 57 at Newcastle General Hospital, England, where he was undergoing tests related to an aortic aneurysm. He had been the bass player with The Animals and manager of Slade, Nick Drake and Jimi Hendrix.
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17 Jul 1999 Kevin Wilkinson, drummer with Howard Jones hung himself at home aged 41. Also worked with China Crisis, Holly and the Italians, Squeeze and The Waterboys.
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17 Jul 2004 Half of the 4,500 people in the audience walked out of Linda Ronstadt's show at the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas after the singer dedicated an encore of ‘Desperado’ to filmmaker Michael Moore and urged the crowd to see his film Fahrenheit 9/11.
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17 Jul 2005 Jamaican musician Laurel Aitken died. Dubbed as 'the Godfather of Ska', his 1958 'Boogie In My Bones' became the first release on the Island Record label and was No.1 on the Jamaican charts for 11 weeks.
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17 Jul 2008 Ageing rock stars and session musicians would keep receiving royalties for their old recordings for the rest of their lives under a European Union plan. Performers currently lost the rights to their recordings after 50 years. Veteran artists like Sir Cliff Richard and Roger Daltrey were among those who campaigned for it to be extended. The EU had announced a scheme for copyright on recordings to last for 95 years.
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17 Jul 2013 U2 singer Bono received France's highest cultural honour for his contribution to music and commitment to humanitarian causes when he was presented with the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti in Paris.
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