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  Brad Beheler
  http://galleywinter.com
  

  Raised in Waco, refined in the Hill Country, escaped from DFW. I've worked in just about every facet of the music business for 15 years. I like to write about it all. e-mail Brad Editor-in-Chief
  

  
  

Today In Music

• {1947}
  Iggy Pop, real name James Jewel Osterberg, is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• {1947}
  Hank Williams records "Move It On Over" and "I Saw The Light" at Nashville's Castle Studio in his first MGM recording session
• {1982}
  Legendary Clash frontman, Joe Strummer, disappears for three weeks. Thus causing the band to cancel a scheduled tour. He is found living on the streets of Paris.
• {1990}
  Paul McCartney played in front of 184,000 fans at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Jnaeiro, creating a new world record for the largest crowd attending a concert.
• {1990}
  Sinead O'Connor takes her haunting cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" to the top of the US and UK singles charts, where it will stay for five weeks.
• {1994}
  Courtney Love, turns in the weapon Kurt Cobain used to kill himself to a grass-roots anti-violence organization holding a guns-for-tickets trade-in program.