🎵 SEPTEMBER 8 - SIXTIES BEAT - COMPLETE TRIBUTE
1960s Vinyl Memories Est 1960
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🎂 BIRTHDAYS - SEPTEMBER 8 - MAJOR
[USA] ★ Sept 8 1932 - PATSY CLINE - Crazy #2 Billboard 61 / I Fall To Pieces #1 Country 61 - Winchester VA - Died 1963 age 30 - MAJOR
[USA BIS] Sept 8 1945 - Ron McKernan "Pigpen" - Grateful Dead founder - San Bruno CA - Died 1973 age 27
[USA] Sept 8 1947 - Benjamin Orr - The Cars - Just What I Needed / Drive - Lakewood OH - Died 2000 age 53 - MAJOR
[USA] Sept 8 1960 - Aimee Mann - Til Tuesday Voices Carry #8 US 85 -
Richmond VA - Age 65
[USA] Sept 8 1979 - PINK - Get The Party Started #4 US 01 / So What #1 Billboard 08 - Doylestown PA - Age 46 - MAJOR
[USA] Sept 8 1987 - Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow #1 Billboard 11 - Minot ND - Age 38
[ANGLETERRE] No major born Sept 8 -
REF David Steele Fine Young Cannibals 1960 UK
[EUROPE] Sept 8 1989 - Avicii - Wake Me Up #1 UK 13 / Levels #1 SE - Stockholm SE - Died 2018 age 28 - MAJOR
[AMERIQUE DU SUD] No major born Sept 8 - REF Roberto Carlos 19Apr41 BR / Caetano Veloso 7Aug42 BR
[FRANCE] No major born Sept 8 - REF Hugues Aufray 18
Aug 28 / Eddie Vartan 5 Sept 37 FR
📅 ON THIS DAY - SEPTEMBER 8
USA 1935: Frank Sinatra first recording Major Bowes Amateur Hour Hoboken Four
ANGLETERRE 1967: Beatles start recording Flying at Abbey Road - only instrumental
EUROPE 2002: Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden first flight as airline pilot Astraeus
AMERIQUE DU SUD 1968: Caetano Veloso arrested SP military regime Tropicália
FRANCE 1963: Same week Beatles Olympia Paris booking confirmed for Jan 64
💿 RECORD RELEASES - SEPTEMBER 8
USA 1987: Rush Hold Your Fire LP released - Time Stands Still ft Aimee Mann
ANGLETERRE 2003: Iron Maiden Dance Of Death LP released #2 UK - Wildest Dreams single
EUROPE 1987: Rush Hold Your Fire #10 DE / 1995 Rainbow Stranger In Us All LP
AMERIQUE DU SUD 1973: Same week Secos & Molhados debut impact BR
FRANCE 1984: Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You #1 FR for 6 weeks
📊 CHARTS - SEPTEMBER 8 #1 THIS DAY
USA 1990: Jon Bon Jovi Blaze Of Glory #1 Billboard - Young Guns II
ANGLETERRE 1984: Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You #1 UK
EUROPE 1984: Same #1 DE/FR/NL/BE - 6 weeks UK
AMERIQUE DU SUD 1968: Doors Hello I Love You still #1 BR
FRANCE 1984: Stevie Wonder #1 FR / 1990: Jon Bon Jovi #1 FR airplay
💀 IN MEMORIAM - SEPTEMBER 8
USA 2000: Benjamin Orr 53 pancreatic cancer / 2018 Avicii already 2018 Apr 20
ANGLETERRE 1978: Keith Moon died Sept 7 not 8 - ref Sept 7 file
EUROPE 2018: Avicii 28
SA/FR: No major died this day
💀 LIVE - SEPT 6 & 8 2026
USA ★ CASSANDRA WILSON died Sept2 70 Grammy - WBGO/Rolling Sept3-4 confirmed
UK/EU/SA/FR: No death - AFP/Le Monde Sept 7-8 check
🎭 ANECDOTE / HOAX - SEPTEMBER 8
USA TRUE: Patsy Cline plane crash 1963 with Cowboy Copas Hawkshaw Hawkins - died together
HOAX: NOT car crash
UK TRUE: Benjamin Orr sang Drive - Cars biggest US hit #3 Billboard 84
HOAX: Orr NOT drummer - bassist
EU TRUE: Avicii Swedish EDM global - Levels 2011 breakthrough
HOAX: NOT Norwegian
SA TRUE: Patsy Cline covered by many Brazilian country
HOAX: NOT born Brazil
FR TRUE: Aimee Mann influence on French pop - Voices Carry on Taratata 85
HOAX: NOT French born
🎂 BONUS - ALSO BORN SEPTEMBER 8 - EXHAUSTIF
USA: Patsy Cline 32 MAJOR / Jimmie Rodgers 1897 Country Father / Ron McKernan 45 Grateful / Benjamin Orr 47 MAJOR /
Sal Valentino 44 Beau Brummels / Will Lee 52 Letterman bass
ist / Aimee Mann 60 MAJOR / Neko Case 70 / Pink 79 MAJOR / Wiz Khalifa 87 / Jay Weinberg 90 Slipknot / Avicii 89 MAJOR (EU but listed)
UK: David Steele 60 Fine Young Cannibals / Richard Hughes 75 Keane drummer / Frank Tovey 56 Fad Gadget
EU: Avicii 89 MAJOR SE / Antonin Dvorak 1841 CZ - not pop but ref
SA: No - REF Roberto Carlos 19Apr41 / Tim Maia 28Sept42 / Jorge Ben 22Mar39
FR: No - REF Serge Gainsbourg 2Apr28 / Polnareff 3Jul44 / Hallyday 15Jun43 / Aufray 18Aug28 / Eddie Vartan 5Sept37
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Source AFP/Le Monde/Rolling/WBGO/Charts/Billboard - V7.4 PRO COMPLET
