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Music on the 4th of August in history

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04 Aug 1901 birth Louis Armstrong, singer, bandleader, trumpet. Had many hits including the 1964 US No.1 'Hello Dolly!', 1968 UK No.1 'What A Wonderful World’ plus ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’, ‘Ain't Misbehavin’, and ‘We Have All the Time in the World.’ Died 6th July 1971.
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04 Aug 1936 birth Elsbeary Hobbs, The Drifters, (1960 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Save The Last Dance For Me'). Died on May 31st 1996 at Veterans Hospital in Manhattan. He was 59.
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04 Aug 1940 birth Frankie Ford, (1959 US No.14 single 'Sea Cruise').
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04 Aug 1940 birth Larry Knechtel, an American keyboard player and bassist, best known as a member of The Wrecking Crew, a collection of Los Angeles-based session musicians who worked with such renowned artists as Simon & Garfunkel, Duane Eddy, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & the Papas, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, The Doors and Elvis Presley, and as a member of the 1970s band Bread. Knechtel died on Aug 20th 2009.
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04 Aug 1943 birth David Carr, keyboards, The Fortunes, (1965 UK No.2 & US No.7 single 'You've Got Your Troubles')
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04 Aug 1947 birth Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, German instrumental group, (1974 UK No.15 album 'Phaedra').
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04 Aug 1947 birth Paul Layton, The New Seekers, (1972 UK No.1 single 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing').
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04 Aug 1951 birth Roy Flowers, Sweet Sensation, (1974 UK No.1 single with 'Sad Sweet Dreamer').
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04 Aug 1952 birth Marie Ni Bhraonain, Clannad, (1982 UK No.5 single 'Harry's Game').
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04 Aug 1958 Billboard introduced 'The Hot 100 Singles Chart', Ricky Nelson was at No.1 with 'Poor Little Fool'.
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04 Aug 1960 birth Graham Massey keyboards, 808 State, (1989 UK No.10 single 'Pacific State').
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04 Aug 1962 The Rolling Stones played the first of 22 weekly shows at Ealing Jazz Club in Ealing, London. They were known as The Rollin' Stones during this period.
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04 Aug 1962 birth Paul Reynolds, A Flock Of Seagulls, (1982 UK No.10 single 'Wishing If I Had A Photograph Of You').
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04 Aug 1963 UK music weekly The NME reported that The Beatles could score their first US hit with 'From Me To You' as the single was 'bubbling under' on the charts at No.116.
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04 Aug 1963 The Beatles appeared at the Queen's Theatre in Blackpool. So many fans crowded around the theatre, blocking every entrance, that The Beatles had to go through a construction area, up and across some scaffolding to the roof of the theatre, from where they were lowered through a trap door.
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04 Aug 1963 birth Sam Yaffa, Hanoi Rocks (1984 UK No.61 single 'Up Around The Bend').
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04 Aug 1966 The Troggs were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'With A Girl Like You', the group's only UK No.1 single.
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04 Aug 1966 birth Andy Henderson, drums, Echobelly, (1995 UK No.13 single 'Great Things').
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04 Aug 1967 A female Monkees fan stowed away on the bands plane between shows in Minneapolis and St Louis. The girl's father threatened to bring charges for transporting a minor across state lines.
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04 Aug 1967 Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper At the Gates of Dawn on which most songs were penned by Syd Barrett. In subsequent years, the record has been recognised as one of the seminal psychedelic rock albums of the 1960s. When reviewed, by the two main UK music papers in the UK, Record Mirror and NME both gave the album four stars out of five. The album which was recorded at Abbey Road studios, London during the same time that The Beatles were recording Sgt Pepper peaked at #6 on the UK album chart and failed to chart in the US.
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04 Aug 1968 The second day of the two day Newport Pop Festival took place in Costa Mesa, California with Blue Cheer, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Grateful Dead, Illinois Speed Press, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Byrds. Over 100,000 fans attended the festival.
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04 Aug 1968 birth Rob Cieka drums, The Boo Radleys (1995 UK No.9 single 'Wake Up Boo').
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04 Aug 1969 birth Max Cavalera guitar, vocals, Sepultura (1996 UK No.19 single 'Roots Bloody Roots').
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04 Aug 1975 Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and his wife were both badly injured when the hire car he was driving spun off the road and crashed on the Greek island of Rhodes. Plant smashed both his ankle and his elbow, and was not fully fit for the best part of two years. A forthcoming North American tour had to be cancelled.
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04 Aug 1979 A benefit concert was held to raise money for Little Feat guitarist and singer Lowell George featuring members of his band plus Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt.
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04 Aug 1980 John Lennon began recording what would become his final album 'Double Fantasy' at The Hit Factory, New York.
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04 Aug 1984 Prince started a 24 week run at the top of the US album charts with 'Purple Rain'. His sixth studio album which features the hits 'When Doves Cry' and 'Let's Go Crazy', as well as the title track has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming the seventh best-selling soundtrack album of all time.
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04 Aug 1990 During a New Kids On The Block concert in Montreal. Canada, three armed robbers stole souvenir sales proceeds valued at $260.000.
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04 Aug 1990 During a US tour Janet Jackson collapsed on stage at a show in St Louis, suffering from an inner ear infection.
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04 Aug 1990 Mariah Carey's started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Vision Of Love', her debut release. 'Vision Of Love' was nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 33rd annual ceremony, held on February 20, 1991: Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, winning the latter.
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04 Aug 1996 Oasis played two sold out nights at Balloch Castle Country Park, Loch Lomand, Scotland to over 80,000 fans. Oasis roadie James Hunter was crushed to death between a fork-lift truck and a lorry during the bands two days shows.
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04 Aug 2000 Craig David scored his second UK No.1 single with '7 Days'. At the age of 19, he became the youngest male artist to score two No.1's since Donny Osmond in 1973.
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04 Aug 2001 Dave Stewart married fashion photographer Anouska Fisz on a private beach on the French Riviera. Guest's included Elton John, Mick Jagger, Oasis boys Liam and Noel Gallagher and his former Eurythmics partner Annie Lennox.
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04 Aug 2001 The News Of The World reported that Mariah Carey had hired a private eye to spy on her ex husband, record boss Tommy Mottola. Investigator Jack Palladino told the paper that Mariah believed her ex husband was conducting a smear campaign against the singer.
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04 Aug 2002 Former Pop Idol contestant Darius started a two week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Colourblind.'
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04 Aug 2002 Bruce Springsteen scored his fifth UK No.1 album with 'The Rising', also No.1 in the US.
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04 Aug 2005 American blues singer and guitarist Little Milton died. Milton had suffered a brain aneurysm on 25th July 2005 and had lapsed into a coma. He signed to Sun records in 1953 and had the 1965 US No.25 single 'We're Gonna Make It'.
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04 Aug 2007 US singer, songwriter Lee Hazlewood died of cancer, in his home near Las Vegas aged 78. Hazlewood wrote and produced many of Nancy Sinatra's most famous hits, including These Boots Were Made For Walkin', Jackson and Did You Ever’ He also produced Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons and Something Stupid - the duet Nancy recorded with her father Frank in 1967.
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04 Aug 2010 Don Henley reached an out-of-court settlement with Republican Senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore who used parodies of two Eagles' hits for an election campaign without permission. 'All She Wants To Do Is Dance' and 'The Boys of Summer' were used in campaign videos on YouTube as 'All She Wants To Do Is Tax' and 'Hope Of November'.
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