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The Stream 12/29/08

Posted at 8:19 AM on December 29, 2008 by Barb Abney

From the "shivers down your spine" department: John Lennon featured in a new commercial.

Keith Richards donates autographed Zemaitis Pearl Front electric guitar to The Rector High School Helping Hands Foundation to be auctioned on eBay.

A Monday time waster: The list of lists.


Today In Music History:
1946 - Marianne Faithfull was born.
1961 - Jim Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain) was born.
1967 - Dave Mason quit Traffic to go solo.
1970 - Glen Phillips (Toad The Wet Sprocket) was born.
1973 - Jim Croce's "Time In A Bottle" was #1.
1975 - Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane filed for divorce.
1980 - Tim Hardin ("If I Were A Carpenter") died of an overdose.
1982 - Jamaica issued a Bob Marley commemorative postage stamp.
2006 - Dita Von Teese (the wife of Marilyn Manson) filed for divorce.

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