Yes, even on Christmas Day there were significant events in classic rock history:
• 1959 - Under the tree at the Starkey home, young Richie (soon to become Ringo Starr) finds his first drum kit
• 1960 - James Taylor's Christmas present: his first guitar
• 1964 - The Zombies headline Murray the K's Big Holiday Show in New York City
• 1981 - J. Geils Band play a Christmas concert for inmates at a Massachusetts prison
• 1998 - Bryan MacLean, guitarist for Love, dies of a heart attack at age 61
Today's Birthdays:
Trevor Lucas - Fairport Convention - 1943
Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine - Canned Heat, Mothers of Invention - 1944
Noel Redding - Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1945
Jimmy Buffett - 1946
Annie Lennox - Eurythmics - 1954
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