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This day in Rock history: John "J" Geils, guitarist with the J Geils Band, was born in New York City in 1946. In the early 1960s as a teenager he dated Meryl Streep for two years in high school. Geils died of natural causes at 71 on 4/11/2017.

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This day in Rock history: A fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island during a Great White show killed 100 people in 2003. Among the dead was Ty Longley, Great White's guitarist. turnto10.com/news/local/t...

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This day in Pop history: Singer Seal was born in London in 1963. Born Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, he has won four Grammys, produced hits such as "Crazy" and "Kiss From A Rose" and one truly disturbing commercial.

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This day in Rock history: The #1 song in 1972 was "Without You" by Nilsson where it stayed for 4 weeks. It was co-written by Pete Ham, frontman for Badfinger.

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This day in Pop history: Singer Falco was born in Vienna, Austria. in 1957. His biggest hit was "Rock Me Amadeus" which reached #1, making him the only artist in history with a #1 hit with a German language song. Falco died in a car accident at 40 on 2/6/1998.

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This day in Alternative history: Dave Wakeling, frontman for English Beat and General Public, was born in Birmingham, England in 1956. He formed The Beat (also known as The English Beat) before forming General Public in 1994.

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This day in Rock history: Bon Scott, frontman for AC/DC, died of acute alcohol poisoning at 33 in 1980. Born in Scotland, his family moved to Australia in 1952 and he replaced Dave Evans as the lead singer of AC/DC in 1974.

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This day in Rock history: Tommy Lee, drummer for Motley Crue, married actress Pamela Anderson in 1995. They married just four days after meeting and were divorced in 1998.

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