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Today In Music History: Happy Birthday Andy Mackay

Posted at 6:21 AM on July 23, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Martin Gore (keyboards, Depeche Mode) is 48.
Slash (Saul Hudson) is 44.
Alison Krauss is 39.
Fran Healy (vocals, Travis) is 36.


1966 - Frank Sinatra went to No.1 on the Billboard album chart with Strangers In The Night.
1977 - Drummer Keith Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage during a gig at The Forum in Los Angles playing a duet with Zeppelin drummer John Bonham before taking to the microphone and attempting to sing.
1983 - The Police went to No.1 on the Billboard album chart with Synchronicity. The album spent a total of seventeen weeks at No.1.
1988 - After forty-nine weeks on the US album chart, Hysteria by Def Leppard finally went to the No.1 position.
1999 - Woodstock '99 began in Rome, N.Y. The three-day festival started off peacefully but ended in fires, lootings and accusations of rape.
2008 - Kid Rock was sentenced to a year on probation and fined $1,000 for his part in a fight in an Atlanta Waffle House the previous year. He also received 80 hours community service and six hours of anger management counselling.

Andy Mackay, saxophonist for Roxy Music is 63 today. Over the years he's played parts ranging from the raucus to the lovely (the latter particularly on Roxy's final album Avalon), but this morning we went with a tune featuring some of his edgier playing: "Do The Strand."

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