What happened on October 8
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196462 yrs ago
The Beatles record 'She's a Woman' at EMI
McCartney arrived at the session with only about one verse and finished writing the song in the studio; it became the B-side of 'I Feel Fine'.
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198046 yrs ago
Prince releases Dirty Mind, his basement-made breakthrough
Prince cut the album on a 16-track setup in the basement of his Lake Minnetonka home, playing nearly everything himself and engineering it under the alias Jamie Starr.
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198838 yrs ago
Def Leppard's 'Love Bites' tops the Hot 100
The power ballad replaced Bobby McFerrin's 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' at the top and held on for one week before UB40's 'Red Red Wine' took over.
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199135 yrs ago
Soundgarden unleash Badmotorfinger
Their third album spawned 'Outshined' and 'Rusty Cage' and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance.
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193096 yrs ago
Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu is born in Tokyo
Largely self-taught, he won international notice after Igor Stravinsky heard his Requiem for strings in 1958 and praised it publicly.
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194878 yrs ago
Johnny Ramone, punk's downstroke pioneer, is born in Queens
His relentless all-downstroke rhythm playing helped define the punk guitar sound, and Rolling Stone ranked him among the 30 greatest guitarists.
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196759 yrs ago
Teddy Riley, architect of new jack swing, is born
Credited with creating the hip-hop/R&B hybrid new jack swing, he later co-produced half of Michael Jackson's Dangerous and led Blackstreet to No. 1 with 'No Diggity'.
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198541 yrs ago
Bruno Mars is born Peter Gene Hernandez in Honolulu
He grew up performing with his father's band in Hawaii and went on to win 16 Grammys; 'Uptown Funk' with Mark Ronson ruled the Hot 100 for 14 weeks.
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195373 yrs ago
Contralto Kathleen Ferrier dies at 41
Months earlier her weakened femur partly gave way mid-performance at Covent Garden, yet she finished the show without the audience noticing; conductor Bruno Walter ranked knowing her above knowing Mahler.
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201115 yrs ago
'Autumn Leaves' pianist Roger Williams dies
His 1955 'Autumn Leaves' is the only piano instrumental ever to reach No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart, selling more than two million copies.
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