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The Stream 08/31/07

Posted at 8:29 AM on August 31, 2007 by Barb Abney

Previously unreleased Libertines track, a cover of The Beatles tune "Eight Days A Week", is available now.

PJ Harvey announces two North American dates.

Smashing Pumpkins and Kanye West to play Bang! Music Fest.

Here's what the gang from Pretty Girls Make Graves members will do now that their band is finished.

Today In Music History:
1945 - Van Morrison was born.
1955 - Anthony Thistlethwaite (The Waterboys) was born.
1957 - Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) was born.
1957 - Gina Schock (The Go-Go's) was born.
1967 - Gerard Love (Teenage Fanclub) was born.
1970 - Debbie Gibson was born.
1974 - Keith Richards told Rolling Stone he gave up drugs when his doctor told him that he had six months to live.
1977 - Craig Nicholls (The Vines) was born.
1986 - Bob Geldof married Paula Yates.
1989 - The Rolling Stonesbegan their 'Steel Wheels' tour in Philadelphia.
1994 - Aaliyah and R Kelly were secretly but since she was only 15 at the time, the marriage was annulled.
2002 - NASA announced that Lance Bass (*NSYNC) would be the first celebrity astronaut. When he failed to pay for his $20 million ticket the plans were cancelled.

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