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Oct 6, 2020: Eddie Van Halen, Guitar Legend, Dies at 65
He was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2000. “I used metal picks – they’re brass and copper – which I always held in my mouth,” he once revealed
Read MoreOct 6, 2019: Ginger Baker, Legendary Cream Drummer, Dies
He passed 11 days after the family wrote that he was hospitalized and critically ill. He famously teamed with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce
Read MoreOctober 6, 1980: Bee Gees Sue Manager
Together they had enjoyed truly phenomenal music business success in the 1970s. But by 1980 the Bee Gees sued Robert Stigwood
Read MoreOct 6, 2015: World’s Largest Human Peace Sign Attempt
John Lennon would have loved it. Yoko Ono called for fans to gather in New York City’s Central Park to try to set a Guinness World Record
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