What happened on December 5
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196066 yrs ago
The Crickets release "I Fought the Law"
Sonny Curtis's song debuted on the album In Style with the Crickets and got little airplay. The Bobby Fuller Four took it into the US top ten in 1966, and the Clash covered it in 1979.
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197353 yrs ago
Band on the Run is released in the US
Paul McCartney and Wings made most of the album at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria. It went on to No. 1 in both America and Britain.
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198739 yrs ago
Belinda Carlisle tops the Hot 100
"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" gave her a first and only US No. 1, and it hit the top in the UK too.
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193294 yrs ago
Little Richard is born in Macon, Georgia
"Tutti Frutti," cut in three takes in 1955, was an instant smash. In 1986 he was in the first class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
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193888 yrs ago
Songwriter J.J. Cale is born
Eric Clapton turned two of his songs into hits: "After Midnight" in 1970 and "Cocaine" in 1977.
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194680 yrs ago
Tenor José Carreras is born in Barcelona
He beat acute leukemia after being given a one-in-ten chance, then sang in the first Three Tenors concert in Rome in 1990.
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196759 yrs ago
Country singer Gary Allan is born
He has scored four country No. 1s, including "Man to Man" and "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)."
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1791235 yrs ago
Mozart dies in Vienna at 35
He died before he could complete his Requiem, leaving much of it unfinished.
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201214 yrs ago
Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck dies at 91
His album Time Out was the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and Paul Desmond's "Take Five" from it became jazz's top-selling single.
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20224 yrs ago
Stax Records co-founder Jim Stewart dies at 92
He started Stax in 1957 with his sister Estelle Axton, building the label's name from their two surnames.
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