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The Stream 09/17/07

Posted at 8:52 AM on September 17, 2007 by Barb Abney

Amy Winehouse says she's recovered.

Common and Q-Tip to tour together.

Read all about the happenings at this weekend's ACL Fest.

Today In Music History:
1923 - Hank Williams was born.
1931 - The first 33 and-a-third LP players were launched by RCA Victor in New York.
1950 - Fee Waybill (The Tubes) was born.
1969 - Adam Devlin (The Bluetones) was born.
1969 - Keith Flint (Prodigy) was born.
1976 - The Sex Pistols played a gig for the inmates at a prison in Essex, England.
1991 - The largest shipment of new releases in pop history (over 4 million copies) of Guns N' Roses albums, Use Your Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion 2 were simultaneously released.
1991 - Rob Tyner (MC5) died of heart failure.
1996 - A package containing bomb, addressed to Bjork was found at a South London sorting office. It was sent by Ricardo Lopez who had made a video of himself making the bomb and then killing himself.

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