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Today In Music History: Booker T. is 65

Posted at 6:02 AM on November 12, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Neil Young is 64.

Today in:

1970 - Singer Jim Morrison performed with The Doors for the last time during a concert in New Orleans. Morrison died in July 1971.
1980 - Bruce Springsteen earned his first number-one album, with "The River."
1984 - Madonna released her "Like A Virgin" album.
1987 - Sly Stone showed up over an hour late to his comeback concert in Los Angeles. When he got there, he was arrested for nonpayment of child support.

History highlight:

Organist Booker T. Jones of Booker T. and the MG's is 65 today. Jones has worked in the studios with some of the highest regarded artists of our time, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement, but it's his work fronting his band the MG's (including the likes of guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Duck Dunn) that earned him his greatest fame, playing organ on such tracks as the hugely succesful "Green Onions" and our track today, "Mo' Onions."

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