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/*
* Music
*
* $FreeBSD$
*/
#ifndef _calendar_music_
#define _calendar_music_
01/01 Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942
01/03 Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945
01/04 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979
01/08 David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947
01/09 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945
01/10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
01/10 Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943
01/10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952
01/10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945
01/13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973
01/17 Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969
01/19 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943
01/22 Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935
01/24 Warren Zevon is born, 1947
01/25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978
01/27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930
01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, 1756
01/28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970
01/30 Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982
01/31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970
02/01 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949
02/02 Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942
02/03 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big
Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959
02/07 Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964
02/07 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979
02/09 Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941
02/12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964
02/17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982
02/18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933
02/19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in
Britain, 1972
02/19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940
02/20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946
02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974
02/23 Handel born, 1685
02/23 Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944
02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
03/01 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969
03/02 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949
03/03 Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966
03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678
03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
03/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973
03/09 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945
03/13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971
03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944
03/17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942
03/21 J.S. Bach born, 1685
03/22 Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974
03/25 Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943
03/26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971
03/29 Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973
03/30 Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945
04/02 Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939
04/04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork,
Mississippi, 1915
04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898
04/10 Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
04/14 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945
04/18 Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981
04/25 Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
04/29 "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968
05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909
05/03 Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945
05/07 Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg, 1833
05/07 Tchaikowsky born, 1840
05/10 Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945
05/11 Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, 1981
05/12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977
05/18 Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
05/19 Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945
05/20 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967
05/22 Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany, 1665
05/23 Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963
05/24 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941
05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886
05/31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever -- 76,000 watts of PA, 1976
06/01 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967
06/06 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955
06/07 Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969
06/09 Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1923
06/10 Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910
06/10 Judy Garland born, 1922
06/15 Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941
06/16 The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967
06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942
06/21 Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948
06/22 Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948
06/24 Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944
07/02 Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969
07/03 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971
07/06 The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965
07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940
07/12 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979
07/14 Woodie Guthrie born, 1912
07/16 Cream forms in the U.K., 1966
07/16 Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981
07/17 "Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilion, 1968
07/20 Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947
07/25 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965
07/25 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969
07/26 Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943
07/28 Bach dies, 1750
07/28 The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973
08/01 The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971
08/04 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus",
1966
08/10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
08/13 Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951
08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey
08/15 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965
08/15 Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969
08/26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
08/26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970
09/07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978
09/08 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841
09/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno,
California, 1945
09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814
09/16 B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925
09/19 Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981
09/20 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973
09/23 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969
09/23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949
09/25 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980
09/26 George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY
10/04 Janis Joplin O.D.s, 1970
10/04 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970
10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, 1943
10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940
10/10 John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946
10/12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966
10/16 Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947
10/17 "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967
10/18 Chuck Berry is born in San Jose, California, 1926
10/20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977
10/22 Franz Liszt born, 1811
10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944
10/25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964
10/29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
10/30 Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939
11/02 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968
11/02 Keith Emerson is born, 1944
11/03 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
11/07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943
11/08 Patti Page born, 1927
11/09 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
11/10 Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948
11/12 Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945
11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942
11/16 Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965
11/20 Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946
11/20 Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947
11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868
11/25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976
11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
11/26 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968
11/27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
12/05 Mozart dies, 1791
12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
12/06 The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969
12/07 Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
12/08 Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
12/08 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
12/09 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
12/13 Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949
12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877
12/16 Beethoven born, 1770
12/16 Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971
12/16 Ludwig von Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany, 1770
12/21 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940
12/23 First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
12/28 Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946
12/31 Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969
#endif /* !_calendar_music_ */
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