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Music on the 6th of October in history

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06 Oct 1917 birth Bob Neal, ex DJ, agent and one time Elvis Presley manager, died on 9th May 1983.
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06 Oct 1945 birth Robin Shaw, The Flowerpot Men. (1967 UK No.4 single 'Let's Go to Francisco').
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06 Oct 1948 birth Millie Small, (Millie), 1964 US & UK No.2 single 'My Boy Lollipop).
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06 Oct 1949 birth Bobby Farrell, Boney M, (1978 UK No.1 & US No.30 single 'Rivers of Babylon'). He died of natural causes on 30th Dec 2010 at the age of 61.
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06 Oct 1949 birth Thomas McClary, guitar, The Commodores, (1978 UK & US No.1 single 'Three Times A Lady').
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06 Oct 1951 birth Gavin Sutherland, The Sutherland Brothers, (1976 UK No.5 single 'Arms Of Mary'. Wrote the million seller 'Sailing' a No.1 for Rod Stewart in 1975).
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06 Oct 1951 birth Kevin Cronin, REO Speedwagon, (1981 US No.1 & UK No.7 single 'Keep On Loving You').
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06 Oct 1954 birth David Hidalgo, Los Lobos (1987 UK & US No.1 single 'La Bamba').
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06 Oct 1958 birth Tim Mooney, drums, American Music Club, (1993 album 'Mercury').
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06 Oct 1959 Jerry Keller was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Here Comes Summer'. A one hit wonder, Keller went on to be a vocalist for television jingles throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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06 Oct 1960 birth Richard Jobson, The Skids, (1979 UK No.10 single 'Into The Valley'), Armoury Show, TV presenter.
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06 Oct 1961 birth Tim Burgess, Drums, T'Pau, (1987 UK No.1 single 'China In Your Hand', 1987 US No.4 single 'Heart and Soul').
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06 Oct 1964 The Beatles spent the afternoon recording 'Eight Days A Week' at Abbey Road studios in London. Late evening was spent at The Ad Lib Club, London, partying with The Ronettes and Mick Jagger.
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06 Oct 1964 birth Matthew Sweet, singer guitarist, (solo single 'Girlfriend'). The Thorns.
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06 Oct 1966 birth Tommy Stinson, bass, The Replacements, (1984 album 'Let It Be'). Also worked with Guns N' Roses.
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06 Oct 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded a session for the UK BBC radio show 'Top Gear.' Stevie Wonder who was also appearing on the show jammed with Hendrix.
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06 Oct 1967 The Doors appeared at the Cal State Gymnasium, Los Angeles, California. With The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and The Sunshine Company.
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06 Oct 1967 Pink Floyd appeared at the Miss Teenage Brighton Contest, Top Rank Suite, Brighton, England, playing the musical interlude during the contest.
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06 Oct 1969 George Harrison's song 'Something' was released as the "A" side of a Beatles' 45, a first for Harrison. Along with Lennon and McCartney's Come Together, the single went on reach No.1 on the US chart the following month.
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06 Oct 1969 listen to ‘This Day in Music 6th Oct’ on Audioboo
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06 Oct 1973 Cher started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Half-Breed', the singers second US No.1. The single didn't chart in the UK.
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06 Oct 1978 Australia’s ‘King of rock 'n' roll’ Johnny O’Keefe died aged 43 of a heart attack. He was the first Australian rock’n’roll performer to tour the United States, and Australia’s most successful chart performer, with 29 Top 40 hits between 1958 and 1974,. O’Keefe’s 1958 hit, ‘Real Wild Child’, was covered by Iggy Pop in 1986.
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06 Oct 1979 Buzzcocks, supported by Joy Division appeared at the Odeon Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, tickets £2.50
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06 Oct 1979 Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door was at No.1 on the US album chart. Six versions of the cover were released, each depicting the same bar scene photographed from one of six different angles.
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06 Oct 1979 'Gotta Serve Somebody' gave Bob Dylan his twelfth US top 40 hit when it entered the chart for the first time. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the song won Dylan the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male in 1980.
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06 Oct 1982 birth William Butler, synthesiser, bass, guitar. percussion, Arcade Fire, (2005 album ‘Funeral’).
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06 Oct 1984 David Bowie scored his sixth UK No.1 album with 'Tonight', featuring the single 'Blue Jean'.
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06 Oct 1991 Michael Jackson gave away the bride at Elizabeth Taylor's seventh wedding, held at Jackson's Neverland Ranch. The Groom was construction worker Larry Fortensky, whom Taylor would divorce in 1997.
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06 Oct 1998 A music industry poll was published by London Magazine 'Time Out', naming the top stars from the past 30 years. 5th place was Marvin Gaye, 4th; James Brown, 3rd; Bob Marley, 2nd; The Beatles and first place went to David Bowie.
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06 Oct 1999 Winners at The Mobo Awards included Kele Le Roc, for best newcomer and best single. Shanks & Bigfoot won best dance act. TLC won best video for 'No Scrubs'. Lauryn Hill, won best International act and Tina Turner won a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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06 Oct 2000 Manhattan Supreme Court sentenced rapper Busta Rhymes to five years probation after pleading guilty to a gun possession charge.
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06 Oct 2004 Britney Spears threw a full cup of cola over a photographer. The snapper was waiting to take pictures of the singer and her new husband outside a subway take-away shop in Malibu, California.
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06 Oct 2005 A Rolling Stones concert at the University of Virginia, in the US, was halted eight songs into the show at the Scott Stadium after police received a bomb threat targeting the stage area. A 45-minute police sweep of the area found nothing unusual, and the band completed the show. The Stones were touring to promote their latest album, 'A Bigger Bang.'
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06 Oct 2007 Bruce Springsteen was being sued for $850,000 (£415,973) by a man who claimed he backed out of a contract to buy a horse. Springsteen and his wife Patti Scialfa were both named in legal documents filed in Florida by Todd Minikus. He claimed the couple pulled out of a deal to pay $650,000 (£358,097) for a horse, named Pavarotti.
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06 Oct 2007 Queen's groundbreaking promo for their 1975 hit Bohemian Rhapsody was named the UK's best music video in a survey of music fans. Out of 1,051 adults polled by O2, 30% named the six-minute video, (which took only three hours to shoot and cost a mere £3,500 to make), their favourite.
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06 Oct 2010 A set of John Lennon's fingerprints were seized by the FBI from a New York memorabilia dealer who intended to sell them for $100,000 (£62,621) minimum bid. The prints were taken at a New York police station in 1976 when Lennon applied for permanent US residence. The bureau believed the card was still government property and was investigating how it landed in private hands.
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06 Oct 2011 Starship's 'We Built This City' was named 'the worst song of the 1980s' in a poll by Rolling Stone magazine. 'The Final Countdown' by the Swedish band Europe came in second and 'Lady in Red' by Chris de Burgh was third. Also making the top five were Wham!'s 'Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)' and 'The Safety Dance' by Men Without Hats.
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