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    Aug 24, 2021: Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at 80

    The news arrived 3 weeks after the surprise announcement that he had a “completely successful” medical procedure that prevented him from touring that fall

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    August 24, 1975: Queen Begin ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

    Queen’s nearly six-minute long-song hit the upper reaches of the U.S. and U.K. singles charts not once but twice. Things you didn’t know about their masterpiece

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    Aug 24, 2019: Jackie Wilson’s Widow Dies on Eve of His Hollywood Star Honor

    Known as “Mr. Excitement,” Wilson had been honored with inductions into the Roll Hall and R&B Music HoF. Harlean Wilson had hoped to attend the ceremony

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    August 23, 1970: Derek & the Dominos Start ‘Layla’ LP

    Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon convened with producer Tom Dowd at Criteria Studios in Miami to begin recording their debut album

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    August 22, 1970: Creedence’s ‘Cosmo’s Factory’ Hits #1

    CCR’s fifth LP topped the Album Chart for multiple weeks, yielded a slew of Top 5 hits and has sold more than four million copies

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    Remembering Toots Thielemans, Harmonica Master

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    Remember ‘Sweet Sweet Connie,’ Groupie Name-Checked in Grand Funk Hit?

    The high school teenager from Little Rock was immortalized in the 1973 #1 single, “We’re an American Band,” produced by Todd Rundgren

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    Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp For Weekend Warriors

    So you wanted to be a rock ‘n’ roll star? Or want to experience what it’s like to be one and play with them? Then this is for you.

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    Aug 21, 2021: Don Everly, Older Half of the Everly Brothers, Dies

    The siblings, among the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, influenced the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and many others.

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    Aug 21, 1958: Ricky Nelson Cuts ‘Lonesome Town’

    The star of a popular 1950s family sitcom whose rock ‘n’ roll music doesn’t get the credit it deserves for helping popularize the music

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