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Today in Music... A birthday Stone, and a dirty old Stone

Posted at 9:14 AM on June 2, 2009 by Jim McGuinn

Birthdays

1941 - Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) 68
1954 - Michael Steele (Bangles) 55
1955 - Michael Anthony (Van Halen) 54
1959 - Lydia Lunch 50
1961 - Dez Cadena (Black Flag) 48
1970 - B-Real (Cypress Hill) 39
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes) 29

1896 - Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1958 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1964 - Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1973 - Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham dumped a bucket of water over promoter Bill Graham following an argument at a show in San Francisco.
1978, Bruce Springsteen's album "Darkness on the Edge of Town" was released.
1981 - Prince played for the first time in the UK.
1989 - Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married model Mandy Smith. He was 53, she was 19. They divorced in 1991.
1990 - Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) died after being hit by a taxi.
2008 - Bo Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla. He was 79.

Who marries the bass player? Bill Wyman, former bassist of the Rolling Stones creeped a lot of folks out when it was revealed that he had been 'dating' his new wife Mandy Smith since she was just 13 years old (and he would have been 48 at the time). Eeeww. While Wyman remarried after their (inevitable?) 1991 divorce, what happened to Ms. Mandy's life after her involvement with Wyman? Following a brief brush with pop stardom, she tried her hand at modelling, make up artistry, and is currently training to be a counsellor. She did win one prestigious award however scoring Britain's "Rear of the Year" award in 1994...

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