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Music on the 26th of September in history

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26 Sep 1925 birth Marty Robbins, US Country singer, (1960 US No.1 & UK No.19 single 'El Paso'). He died on 8th December 1982.
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26 Sep 1926 birth Julie London, US singer, (1956 US No. 9 & UK No. 22 single 'Cry Me A River'). She died on 18th October 2000.
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26 Sep 1937 American blues singer Bessie Smith died aged 43 after being involved in a car accident while traveling along Route 61 outside Memphis, Tennessee. Her 1923 song ‘Downhearted Blues’ was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.
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26 Sep 1941 birth Joe Bauer, drummer, The Youngbloods, died of a brain tumour in 1982. (1969 US No.5 single 'Get Together').
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26 Sep 1943 birth Georgie Fame, UK singer, keyboards, (1965 UK No.1 single 'Yeh Yeh'. 1968 UK No.1 single 'The Ballad Of Bonnie and Clyde').
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26 Sep 1945 birth Bryan Ferry, singer, Roxy Music, (1972 UK No.4 single 'Virgina Plain', plus 15 other UK Top 40 singles, solo (1976 UK No.4 single, 'Let's Stick Together').
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26 Sep 1947 birth Lynn Anderson, US singer, (1970 US No.3 & 1971 UK No.3 single 'Rose Garden').
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26 Sep 1948 birth Olivia Newton-John, UK singer, actress, (1978 UK & US No.1 single with John Travolta, 'You're The One That I Want', 1981 US No.1 & UK solo No.7 single 'Physical').
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26 Sep 1951 birth Stuart Tosh, Pilot, (1975 UK No.1 single 'January').
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26 Sep 1954 birth Cesar Rosas, Los Lobos, (1987 UK & US No.1 single 'La Bamba').
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26 Sep 1954 birth Craig Chaquico, Jefferson Starship, (1987 UK & US No.1 single 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us').
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26 Sep 1961 The Greenbriar Boys started a two-week residency at Gerde's Folk Club in New York. The opening act was Bob Dylan.
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26 Sep 1962 birth Tracey Thorn, vocals, Everything But The Girl, (1995 UK No.3 & 1996 US No.2 single 'Missing').
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26 Sep 1964 Roy Orbison started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Oh Pretty Woman'. The title was inspired by Orbison's wife Claudette interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out; when Orbison asked if she was okay for cash, his co-writer Bill Dees interjected "A pretty woman never needs any money."
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26 Sep 1965 At the end of a European tour Roger Daltry knocked out Keith Moon and the singer was sacked from The Who. The band were playing two shows in one night in Denmark, when an argument broke about between all four band members. Daltrey was reinstated the following day.
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26 Sep 1965 birth Cindy Herron, vocals, En Vogue, (1992 US No.2 & UK No.4 single 'My Lovin').
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26 Sep 1967 Pink Floyd played the first of three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco, the groups first ever live dates in the US.
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26 Sep 1968 Rolling Stone Brian Jones was fined £50 with 100 guineas cost after being found guilty of possession of cannabis.
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26 Sep 1969 The Beatles released 'Abbey Road' in the UK. The final studio recordings from the group featured two George Harrison songs 'Something' (Harrison's first A-side single), and 'Here Comes The Sun'. In their interviews for The Beatles Anthology, the surviving band members stated that, although none of them ever made the distinction of calling it the "last album", they all felt at the time this would very likely be the final Beatles product and therefore agreed to set aside their differences and "go out on a high note".
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26 Sep 1969 Fleetwood Mac, East Of Eden, Family, Edgar Broughton Band, Grisby Dyke and Glass Menagerie all appeared at an all night indoor festival at The Pavillion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, John Peel hosted the night.
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26 Sep 1969 listen to ‘This Day in Music 26th Sept’ on Audioboo
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26 Sep 1972 birth Paul Draper, Mansun, (1996 UK No.15 single 'Wide Open Space').
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26 Sep 1972 birth Shawn Stockman, Boyz II Men, (1992 US & UK No.1 single 'End Of The Road').
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26 Sep 1981 Bruce Dickinson joined UK rock band Iron Maiden, (Dickinson had been the vocalist with Samson).
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26 Sep 1981 The Go-Go's started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Beauty And The Beat.'
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26 Sep 1981 birth Christina Milian, US singer, (2002 UK No. 3 single 'AM To PM').
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26 Sep 1987 Michael Jackson started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Bad'. Released nearly five years after Jackson's previous studio album, Thriller, Bad, went on to become the world's best-selling album having sold between 30 to 45 million copies worldwide. The album produced five US No.1's, the first album to do so.
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26 Sep 1987 Whitney Houston started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Didn't We Almost Have It All'.
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26 Sep 1987 David Bowie had his last hit chart in this decade when 'Never Let Me Down' scrapped into the US charts at No.27, the single peaked at No.34 in the UK.
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26 Sep 1989 Paul McCartney started his world tour at The Drammenshallen, in Drammen, Norway. It was McCartney's first major tour outing in ten years, since Wings UK Tour 1979, and his first appearances in North America in thirteen years.
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26 Sep 1995 AC/DC released Ballbreaker their 12th international studio album. The album which was produced by Rick Rubin, featured the return of former drummer Phil Rudd, who had been fired from the band in 1983 as a result of drinking and drug problems and a fight with founding rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young.
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26 Sep 1996 Police found drugs hidden in a Smarties tube when they raided the London home of Paula Yates and INXS singer Michael Hutchence. The couple were away in Australia at the time of the raid.
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26 Sep 1997 The Irish Independent Radio Commission placed a ban on radio stations playing any songs by Eurovision Song Contest winner Dana. It was seen to be giving her an unfair advantage during the current election campaign she was involved with.
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26 Sep 2003 English singer, songwriter Robert Palmer died of a heart attack aged 54 in Paris France. He was a member of Vinegar Joe and Power Station (with Duran Duran members Andy Taylor and John Taylor with drummer and former Chic member Tony Thompson). As a solo artist had the 1986 US No.1 & UK No.5 single 'Addicted To Love' and the 1988 hit 'Simply Irresistible'.
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26 Sep 2003 A report published on requests by artists to venues of their backstage requirements revealed; Limp Bizkit insisted that all the lamps in their rooms be dimmable while Mariah Carey would only have 'bendy' straws as she will not use straight ones. Van Halen insisted that back-stage celery is trimmed and not peeled. The Red Hot Chili Peppers asked for a meditation room and a selection of aromatherapy candles. Barry Manilow requested that the air temperature in the auditorium be kept at a regular 65 degrees.
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26 Sep 2004 Green Day scored their first UK No.1 album with 'American Idiot' the bands seventh release.
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26 Sep 2007 A charitable foundation set up by Shakira donated $40 million (£19.6 million) to help victims of natural disasters. The money would go towards repairing damage caused by an earthquake in Peru and a hurricane in Nicaragua. A further $5 million (£2.46 million) would be spent on health and education in four Latin American countries.
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26 Sep 2009 Jay-Z started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album charts with 'The Blueprint 3', the rappers eleventh studio album.
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