Birthdays
Tommy Lee Motley Crue drummer; Pamela Anderson's ex-husband; star of 2005 reality show Tommy Lee Goes to College. (Age: 46)
Stevie Ray Vaughn The guitar great died in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin August 27th, 1990 at 35.
Lindsey Buckingham Solo/Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist. The singer-guitarist joined Fleetwood Mac, along with then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks, in the mid-'70s.
Buckingham met Stevie Nicks while they both attended Menlo Atherton High School. (Age: 61)
On This Day in Rock History
1987 Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation, the second album by the reunited original line-up, enters the Top 40 of Billboard's album chart. The album, which contains such hits as "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)," "Rag Doll" and "Angel," sparks one of rock's greatest comeback stories.
1980 Bruce Springsteen's tour-launching show in Ann Arbor, Michigan gets off to an inauspicious start when he forgets the words to his opening number, "Born to Run." Things get better when local hero Bob Seger joins him on stage to sing "Thunder Road
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Birthdays
Randy Quaid The actor-comedian. (Age: 58)
Julie Andrews Actress and an icon as Mary Poppins and "Maria" in The Sound of Music.
Tom Bosley The actor spent 12 years playing papa "Howard Cunningham" on T-V's Happy Days. (Age: 81)
On This Day In Rock History
1994 Neil Young's eighth annual Bridge School Benefit features Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pearl Jam, and others. A second show takes place the next day.
1984 U-2 releases The Unforgettable Fire and begins a European tour in Rotterdam, Holland. "Pride (In the Name of Love)" was released as the album's first single, and written about Martin Luther King, Jr.
1971 Rod Stewart gets a gold record for "Maggie May." Rod's Every Picture Tells a Story is the top-selling album in the U-S and Britain.
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