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Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

RE: Today in music history

Snippy · Force Majeure

Snippy has $13 cable that saves him $10 a month on The Internets.

FMB · Board Modification Mediator

Cy Valley wrote:
Snippy wrote:
What year did Dick Clark have his final meltdown and assume room temperature?
Snippy, plug your TV in 12/31/11. Someone claiming to be Dick may make an appearance around midnight, Eastern time.
Does that particular electrical outlet even work?

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Dec 3 1948

Ozzy Osbourne's birthday. "I never set out to be a businessman. I just wanted to have fun, fuck chicks and do drugs."

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Dec 3 1968

Elvis makes a comeback! Only slightly chunkier than in the old days, everyone thought he was a has-been. Elvis sure showed them.

Dec 3 1974

Civil aviation authorities in England issue a warning to pilots to avoid a 40 foot long inflated pig. The aeropork had escaped its tether during a Pink Floyd photo shoot. Radar contact was lost at 18,000 feet. [At this time, the sex of the pig was indeterminate. Later, oversized male genitalia are attached.]

Dec 3 1979

At Riverfront Coliseum inCincinnati, eleven concertgoers variously aged 15 to 27 years are trampled and suffocated trying to get in to see The Who. Insufficient exits were available, and a request by police to open more was ignored.

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Dec 4 1993

Frank Zappa dead of prostate cancer in Los Angeles at age 52.

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Dec 8 1963

Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was set free four days later. It was discovered that Sinatra, Jr. cooperated with his abductors in their plot. Dad was not proud, nor pleased. Frank Jr. went on to conduct the big band for Frank Sr. and all was well.

Dec 8 1980

Beatle John Lennon shot by a lunatic, Mark David Chapman, outside Lennon's apartment in New York City mere hours after receiving the Beatle's autograph. The National Enquirer is roundly criticized for publishing a fuzzy photograph of Lennon in his coffin, much as they did for Elvis Presley.

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Dec 9 1967

Jim Morrison, vocalist for the Doors, arrested for immoral exhibition at one of his concerts. The arrest was due to him upsetting police -- he was maced, then made the error of badmouthing police onstage -- not for exposing his weenie.

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Dec 10 1967

Soul singer Otis Redding plus four members of the Bar-Kays are killed in an airplane crash near Madison, Wisconsin.

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Dec 11 1957

Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis marries his jailbait 13 year old cousin, Myra Gail Brown. Myra's parents are not told of their coupling until the story was broken by the press the following year. Lewis neglects to divorce his wife Jane Mitcham until April 1958.

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Dec 12 1980

"Whip It" earns Devo a gold record. It is the first distinction of its kind for any song aboutmasturbation. Whip it good.

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Dec 12 1915
Francis Albert Sinatra's birthday. We've been asked not to bring up his mafia connections, so today we will not be resorting to that cheap gimmick to slander the Chairman of the Board.

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Dec 15 1944
En route to Paris, "swing" big band leader Glenn Miller vanishes over the English Channel. Miller, listed as Missing In Action, was serving as a Major in the Army Air Force Band when his plane went down.

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Dec 20 1957

Elvis receives orders from the draft board to serve in the United States Army, which to his credit he does without complaint.

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Dec 21 1970

President Nixon meets with prescription drug addict Elvis Presley at the White House to discuss The King's becoming a special drug enforcement agent. He presents Nixon with a pistol, and receives a special DEA badge in return.