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  1. 04-12-2023, 17:48 #1
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    4 December 1971
    During a rock concert by Frank Zappa And The Mother's of Invention at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland, a flare gun was fired by an audience member into the ceiling, causing a fire which destroyed the venue.
    The rock band Deep Purple, who were there to use the casino to record their next album, witnessed the blaze from their hotel and it would be immortalised in their song "Smoke on the Water".

    4 December 1993
    American musician and composer Frank Zappa died on the same date as the Montreux fire 22 years earlier,
    aged 52.
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  2. 04-12-2023, 17:55 #2
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    george tovey, a bit part actor died in 1982. he was 68 and oddly i was watching a film last night where he played the part of a tic tac man at a dog track...
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    6 December 1887

    Thomas Alva Edison recited "Mary Had A Little Lamb" into his phonograph - and made the world's first recording of the human voice.


    6 December 1969

    A free concert given by the Rolling Stones at Altamont, California ended in tragedy when Hell's Angels stabbed a man to death.
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  5. 06-12-2023, 18:01 #5
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    the great bluesman leadbelly died on 6th dec, 1949 aged 61. i also believe the big o, roy orbison did too but in 1988..

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    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Leadbelly had an 'interesting' career: field worker; murderer; the first bluesman to visit and perform in Europe etc. I have some of his recordings.
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    6 December 1968 - Mrs. P comes into the world. 55 today
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    6 December 1968 - Mrs. P comes into the world. 55 today
    Many happy returns Mrs. P!
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    8 December 1980

    John Lennon was shot in New York and died of his wounds, age 40.
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