APRIL 1980

TOM PETTY

& THE HEARTBREAKERS

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"We really believed, because we were so young, that anything was possible. We had enormous confidence. We believed wed come out of it all okay... You see, you always think it won't be you.”

THEYSAIDIT!

Marianne Faithfull in CREEM, June 78

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PASSOVER BEGINS APRIL FOOL'S DAY BOY HOWDY! b. 1969 Ronnie Laneb. 1946 Rudolph Isley b. 1939

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Marvin Gayeb. 1939 Leon Russell b. 1941 Larry Coryell b. 1943

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Richard Manuel b. 1943 Tony Orlando b. 1944 Wayne Newton b. 1942

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GOOD FRIDAY Muddy Waters b. 1915 Berry Oakley b. 1948 Slade's Dave Hi lib. 1952

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Billy Bland b. 1952

Tony Williams(Platters) b. 1928

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EASTER SUNDAY Merle Haggard b. 1937 BobMarleyb. 1946 Rod Stewart marries Alana Hamilton, 1979

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# Janis Ian b. 1951 John Oates b. 1949 Joey Gallo's Last Supper at Umbertos, 1972 Billie Holliday b. 1915 Bruce Gary of the Knack b. 1960 (?)

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PASSOVER ENDS John and Cynthia Lennon add son Julian, 1963

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Terry Knight b. 1943 Carl Perkins b. 1932 PhilOchsd. 1976

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ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS QUIZ

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Robert Zimmerman's First Appearance in N.Y.C., 1961

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TinyTimb. 1930 David Cassidy b. 1950 John Kay b. 1942 Hoi lywood discovers rock ’n' roll with the release of Rock Around The Clock, 1954

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Al Green b. 1946 JackCasadyb. 1944

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Loretta Lynn b. 1935 Ritchie Blackmoreb. 1945

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Roy Clark b. 1933 Bessie Smith b. 1894 Dave Edmunds b. 1944

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Dusty Springfield b. 1939 Charlie Chaplin b. 1889

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Eddie Cochran dies and Gene Vincent seriously injured irvcar crash, 1960

Sha Na Na'sVinnie Taylord. 1974

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Mike Vicker of Manfred Mann b. 1941

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Alan Price b. 1942 Paul Krassnerb. 1932 Adny Shernoff b. 1952

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Johnny Tillotson b. 1939

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Iggy b. 1947

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Charlie Mingus b. 1922 Glen Campbell b. 1936 Peter Frampton b. 1950

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Roy Orbison b. 1936 Badfinger's Pete Ham d. 1975

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Barbra Streisand b. 1942

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Albert Kingb. 1923 Ella Fitzgerald b. 1918 Mrs. Pam Morrison follows husband,1974

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Bobby Rydell b. 1942 Gary Wright b. 1945 Duane Eddy b. 1938

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Paul "Ace" Frehley b. 1950 Pete Ham b. 1947 BOC’s Phil King shot to death, 1972

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"Hair" opens on Broadway, 1968

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Edward Kennedy aka "Duke" Ellington b. 1889 Tommy James b. ?

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Richard Farina dies in motorcycle crash, 1966 Bobby Vee b. 1943 Frankie Lymon d. 1968 Johnny Horton b. 1927

ROCK N' ROLL NEWS QUIZ:

Credited with the accidental invention of the Beatle haircut, he was never to reap the rewards, dying in Germany of a brain tumor on this day in '62. Who? What instrument did he play? Answer to March's Rock 'n' Roll News Quiz:

John Lennon and YokoOno got married on March 20, 1970.

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