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This Day in Music

I gave up drugs when the doctor told me I had 6 months to live - Keith Richards

About Me

Welcome to This Day in Music - click the link above to see the site. With hundreds of musical facts for every single day from the past five decades, including charts, facts, quotes, jokes and more...if you like music trivia and history have a look!"It's Addictive." Time Out Magazine "...if this was a book, it would have pride of place on the shelf beside our loo. Quintessential bathroom reading. A site like this would justify the price of getting an extra PC installed in your bathroom!" Steve Wright BBC Radio 2 Web site of the day"Excellent music trivia." .Net Magazine, Essential 100 sites "...quotes and quirky facts from music history. Groovy." Daily Mirror "...a treasure trove of music-history gems" US Airways Attaché "Find out about birthdays, weddings and deaths, as well as checking out quotes and chart facts." Daily Telegraph." What to see on the web "This site dedicated to the day-to-day history of rock music over the past 40 years, should be included in your bookmarks." The Independent. 10 best sites of the week."You'll never be short of something to say down the pub thanks to this site packed with pop trivia." Internet Magazine. "This site provides the most useless but amazing facts - it will even work out what was Number one on the day you were born." T2 Telegraph. web world guide to the best sites.

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My Interests

Did you know that, before becoming Elvis Presley's agent, Colonel Tom Parker ran a troupe of dancing chickens? Or that the baby featured on the front on Nirvana's Nevermind album was four month old Spencer Elden. Or that Ringo Starr was the first person in Britain to own a home video recorder? With hundreds of musical facts for every single day of the past five decades, This Day In Music boasts the largest database of musical history available on the internet. The largest collection of musical birthdays on the net (over 4,500), featuring all the major artists of the last 50 years. Find out what was No.1 in the charts on the day you were born. Musical events - historic events, recordings, drug busts, marriages and deaths. Music trivia - including where bands got their names, artists' previous jobs and stars' real names. Also featuring every UK and US No.1 from 1952 to today, best sellers charts, 50 years of music awards and readers' polls, quiz and quote of the day, e-cards, classic albums... This Day in Music Click here

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