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Today In Music History: Van The Man is 65

Posted at 5:59 AM on August 31, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History


Birthdays:

Singer Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze is 53.
Drummer Gina Schock of The Go-Go's is 53.
Singer Deborah Gibson is 40.


Today in:

1963 - "Be My Baby," by The Ronettes debuted on the singles chart.
1969 - Bob Dylan made his first paid appearance since having nearly died in a motorcycle accident three years earlier. He played a one-hour set backed by The Band at Britain's Isle Of Wight Festival.
1976 - George Harrison was found guilty and fined for borrowing from The Chiffons' song, "He's So Fine," in portions of his "My Sweet Lord."
1987 - The album Bad by Michael Jackson was released in North America.
1994, R. Kelly married Aaliyah in Rosemont, Illinois. He was 25, but she was 15 - a year under the state legal age for marriage. The marriage was later annulled.


Birthday Highlight:

Van Morrison is 65 today; born George Ivan Morrison in 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose output embraces rock, soul, R&B, Celtic music and jazz, Morrison's lyrical themes regularly explored matters of religious transcendence. Van Morrison is a member of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriter's Hall of Fame. From his 1968 masterpiece Astral Weeks, we played "The Way Young Lovers Do."

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