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The Stream 12/08/08

Posted at 9:09 AM on December 8, 2008 by Barb Abney

Noel Gallagher met one of his idols (Morrissey) over the weekend.

Details on new Lady Soveriegn record.

Lily Allen sticks up for Amy Winehouse.

Today In Music History:
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr. was born.
1943 - Jim Morrison was born.
1957 - Phil Collen (Def Leppard) was born.
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped at gunpoint. He was released two days later after his father paid $240,000 ransom.
1966 - Paul McCartney overdubbed his lead vocal for "When I'm Sixty-Four" and then The Beatles began working on John Lennon's"Strawberry Fields Forever."
1968 - Graham Nash left The Hollies and started working with David Crosby and Stephen Stills.
1974 - Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) was born.
1979 - The Styx tune "Babe" was #1.
1980 - John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman.
1984 - Vince Neil (Motley Crue) was involved in a car accident that killed Nick Dingley (Hanoi Rocks).
1995 - Courtney Love told Barbara Walters that she wished she had done "Eight thousand million things differently' to have prevented the death of her husband Kurt Cobain."
2004 - Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) was shot and killed on stage in Columbus, Ohio.

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