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Oct 6, 2020: Eddie Van Halen, Guitar Legend, 65—Obituary

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

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Oct 6, 2019: Ginger Baker, Legendary Cream Drummer—Obituary

He passed 11 days after the family wrote that he was hospitalized and critically ill. He famously teamed with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce

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October 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

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Oct 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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