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All sorts of music...
What happened on today's date in the past...
Born on the 24th of October 1930...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
July 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Woody Guthrie was born on the 14th of July 1912...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Happening this evening at the Swan in Clewer...
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July 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
On the 12th of July 1958, the Quarry Men recorded Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day". Not sure what happened to them after that...
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July 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
On the 9th of July 1978, The Cure played their first gig, at The Rocket in their hometown of Crawley...
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July 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" was the first original song to directly combine rock with reggae.

It was released on the 16th of June 1978...

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June 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is the fifth studio album by David Bowie, released on the 16th of June 1972 in the United Kingdom, through RCA Records...
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June 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
June 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Unknown Pleasure was released on the 15th of June 1979...
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June 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
On 13th June 1944, the first V1 flying bomb, or 'doodlebug', landed in England.

Hitler's ''secret weapon'' hit a house in Southampton, killing three people...
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June 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
On 12th June 1941, Reg Presley (lead singer for The Troggs) is born Reginald Maurice Ball in Andover, Hampshire, England...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
June 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Wat Tyler led the peasant's revolt on the 11th of June 1381...
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June 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
John Constable was born on the 11th of June 1776...
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June 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"Rock the Casbah" was released on the 11th of June 1982...
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June 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
On the 10th of June 1977, Joe Strummer and Topper Headon from The Clash were each fined £5 by a London court for spray-painting The Clash on a hotel wall...
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June 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The Rolling Stones released their first single on the 7th of June 1963...
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June 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

First published 06-Jun-1949...
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June 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

First published 06-Jun-1949...
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June 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
June 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
There is a lot of confusion about people who were actually present at the legendary first concert of the Sex Pistols in Manchester Free Trade Hall, on June 4, 1976. By all accounts, there were only about 40 people present...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
On the 3rd of June 1162, Thomas à Becket was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Bob Marley played at the Rainbow Theatre in London #onthisday in 1977...
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June 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Born on 31-May-1930...
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May 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM