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By Dave White, About.com Guide to Classic Rock since 2005

Diamond Dave's Return

Friday June 26, 2009
Classic Rock Almanac - June 26

• 1965 - "Mr. Tambourine Man" (The Byrds) goes to #1 on the Billboard singles chart
• 1976 - "Baby I Love Your Way" (Peter Frampton) is released
• 1996 - Sammy Hagar is replaced as Van Halen's lead vocalist by the vocalist he had replaced 11 years earlier, David Lee Roth

Born June 26:
Mick Jones - The Clash - 1955
Chris Isaak - 1956
Patty Smyth - Scandal - 1957
Stef Burns - Huey Lewis & the News - 1959

Comments

June 27, 2009 at 10:23 pm
(1) David Cox says:

Mick Jones of Spooky Tooth and Foreigner, and Mick Jones of The Clash are two different people.

June 28, 2009 at 5:00 am
(2) Dave White says:

And their birthdays are six months apart. Good catch! Thanks.

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