September 3 1991 Ike Turner is released from prison after serving 14 months for cocaine possession. 1991 Rush release their 14th studio album, Roll the Bones. 1982 Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?” is released in the UK. The critics are not kind; Smash Hits calls it “fourth division reggae.” 1982 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak…
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27 AUGUST 1990 – 35-year-old Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin, following a concert at the Alpine Valley Music Theater where earlier in the evening he appeared with Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, and his older brother, Jimmie Vaughan. 1989 – The BCM Summer Dance Festival kicks off at the…
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August 20 2016 The Tragically Hip play their final concert, calling it quits at a show in lead singer Gord Downie’s hometown of Kingston, Ontario. Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in December 2015. 1948 Robert Plant is born in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. Best known at Led Zeppelin’s lead singer, he wins…
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August 14 • 1969: Diana Ross & The Supremes perform at Red Rocks August 15 • 1969: The Woodstock Music and Peace Festival opens on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York August 16 • 1974: The Ramones play their first show at CBGB’s • 1977: Elvis Presley dies at Graceland, his Memphis, Tennessee mansion…
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August 8 • 1992: Metallica’s James Hetfield is seriously burned onstage by a pyrotechnics machine August 9 • 1966: John Lennon apologizes for his statement that “The Beatles are more popular than Jesus” • 1973: John Denver performs at Red Rocks • 1995: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead dies of a heart attack while…
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