John Lennon was asked to play the title role in "Jesus Christ, Superstar." The offer was taken back the next day.
The Montreaux Casino was destroyed by fire during a show by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Deep Purple who were recording an album their at the time write the 'Smoke On The Water.'
In Kingston, Jamaica, seven gunman fired shots into Bob Marley's home while Bob and the Wailers were rehearsing. No one was seriously hurt.
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Mickey Thomas - US singer; Elvin Bishop Group/Jefferson Starship Ozzy Osbourne/John Michael Osbourne - Singer; Black Sabbath/own band Vic Malcolm - UK lead guitarist; Geordie
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Bill Johnson (98) - US jazz musician considered the father of the "slap" style of string bass playing. He started "slapping" the strings of his bass (a more vigorous technique than the classical pizzicato), after he accidentally broke his bow on the road with his band in northern Louisiana in the early 1910s. Other New Orleans string bass players picked up this style, and spread it across the country with the spread of New Orleans Jazz. Johnson was founder and manager of the first jazz band to leave New Orleans and tour widely in the 1910s, The Original Creole Orchestra. He also played with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band, and made many fine recordings in Chicago . Hoyt Curtin (87) - composer and music producer, the main musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show Grady Martin (72) - Guitarist to Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly and played the riff on Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman' until his retirement in 1986. (heart failure)
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