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The Stream 11/11/08

Posted at 8:54 AM on November 11, 2008 by Barb Abney

The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present hit bookshelves today.

Thom Yorke gives away a remix of "Harrowdown Hill."

Radio legend, Nic Harcourt (Morning Becomes Eclectic host) to step down.

Your chance to live like a British rock star for a weekend?

Today In Music History:
1929 - Lavern Baker was born.
1946 - Chris Dreja (The Yardbirds) was born.
1953 - Andy Partridge (XTC) was born.
1954 - Bill Haley's "Shake Rattle And Roll" was the #1 single.
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis secretly married Myra Gale Brown.
1969 - Gary Powell (The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things) was born.
1972 - Berry Oakley (Allman Brothers ) was killed when his motorcycle hit a bus.
1995 - The Smashing Pumpkins' double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was the #1 album.

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