What happened on October 24
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196264 yrs ago
James Brown records Live at the Apollo
Brown paid for the session himself after King Records boss Syd Nathan refused, sure a live album would flop. It spent 66 weeks on the pop albums chart and is now in the National Recording Registry.
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197848 yrs ago
The Wiz premieres with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson
Working with Quincy Jones on the film, Jackson asked him for producer suggestions, and Jones ended up producing Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.
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200026 yrs ago
Linkin Park release Hybrid Theory
With about 32 million copies sold, it is the biggest-selling debut since Appetite for Destruction, and "Crawling" won the band a Grammy.
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200521 yrs ago
Reunited Cream begin three nights at Madison Square Garden
The New York dates followed sold-out Royal Albert Hall reunion shows in May, though Clapton later felt they fell short because of thin rehearsal and old tensions.
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200620 yrs ago
Teenage Taylor Swift releases her debut album
Released when she was 16, it became the longest-charting album of the 2000s on the Billboard 200, and she was the first female country artist to write or co-write every song on a platinum debut.
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1925101 yrs ago
Avant-garde composer Luciano Berio born in Oneglia, Italy
He co-founded one of Europe's key electronic music studios and wrote Sinfonia, in which eight amplified voices speak, whisper and shout over an orchestra.
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193096 yrs ago
The Big Bopper born J.P. Richardson in Sabine Pass, Texas
Best known for "Chantilly Lace," he also wrote "Running Bear," which became a No. 1 hit for Johnny Preston months after Richardson died in the 1959 plane crash.
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198640 yrs ago
Drake born Aubrey Graham in Toronto
Before rap stardom he played Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation, and he now holds the record for most Hot 100 entries by a solo artist.
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194878 yrs ago
Operetta master Franz Lehár dies in Bad Ischl
His The Merry Widow was such a sensation that Gustav and Alma Mahler tried to recreate its waltz from memory after seeing it in Vienna.
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20179 yrs ago
Rock and roll pioneer Fats Domino dies at 89
His 1949 "The Fat Man" was among the first rock and roll records to sell a million, and the Associated Press estimated his lifetime sales at over 110 million records.
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