March 20, 1973 – Jim Croce releases “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”
“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” was to be Jim Croce’s last number one single – it was released only six months...
February 9, 2016
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May 21, 1973 — The Great King Rat dies
Only three facts are known about the circumstances of the Great King Rat’s death: the proximate cause was syphillis, it...
January 24, 2016
December 8, 1980 — John Lennon is shot and killed
Mark David Chapman is, by any standard, an idiot. On this day in 1980, he shot John Lennon five times,...
May 14, 2015
November 25, 1996 — A statue of Freddie Mercury is unveiled in Montreux
Standing nearly ten feet tall – as is only appropriate for such a larger than life figure – Irena Sedlecka’s...
December 29, 2013
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