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Steve Cropper (Oct. 21, 1941 - Dec. 3, 2025), Guitarist for Stax Records, Booker T. & the M.G.’s and The Blues Brothers.

The songwriter, two-time Grammy winner, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer riffed on “Soul Man,” “Green Onions” and “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay.”

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Jimmy Cliff (James Chambers - 30 July 1944 – 24 November 2025). The Man has concluded his visit. Respect. #eleven

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Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), alias Dr. John Creaux the Night Tripper

Dr. John / Such A Night: https://youtu.be/QO53Xu6TZBg

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"Ballerine futuriste", ca. 1930. Art by Elio Luxardo

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Roy Wood (8 November 1946) is an English member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard.

The Move: Roy Wood, Ace Kefford, Bev Bevan, Trevor Burton, Carl Wayne

Electric Light Orchestra: Hugh McDowell, Mik Kamminski, Jeff Lynne, Richard Tandy, Kelly Groucutt, Melvin Gale

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The Seikilos Epitaph: The Earliest Surviving Complete Musical Composition
Circa 50 CE to 150 CE
"Found engraved on a tombstone (stele) in the Hellenistic town of Tralles near present-day Aydin, Turkey, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest surviving complete musical composition. The melody of the song is recorded in the ancient Greek musical notation alongside the lyrics on the stele. "It is a Hellenistic Ionic song in either the Phrygian octave species or Iastian tonos. While older music with notation exists (for example the Hurrian songs), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition": https://youtu.be/hIFcIE23Su4 #eleven

The Lyrics:
"Ὅσον ζῇς, φαίνου,
Hoson zês, phainou,
While you live, shine,

μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ·
mêden holôs su lupou;
have no grief at all;

πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν,
pros oligon esti to zên,
life exists only for a short while,

τὸ τέλος ὁ xρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.
to telos ho chronos apaitei.
and time demands its toll." (Skolion)

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This day in 1996 - Based solely on the year’s sales up to this point, it’s announced that The Beatles have sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of ‘The Beatles Anthology 1’ and ‘The Beatles Anthology 2’. With the release of ‘The Beatles Anthology 3’ a week away, it was anticipated that total Beatles album sales for 1996 would exceed 20 million. (A poll showed 41 percent of sales were to teenagers who were not born when The Beatles officially called it quits in 1970.)

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Pink Floyd / Ummagumma: https://youtu.be/xOerkHz6UYE

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The album cover for the Rolling Stones album Some Girls (1978) was a collaborative effort involving the design by Peter Corriston and illustrations by Hubert Kretzschmar. Kretzschmar recalled the album originally had the working title "Lies." The two would design the band's next three album covers.
For Some Girls an elaborate die-cut design, with the colours on the sleeves varying in different markets, it featured the Rolling Stones' faces alongside those of select female celebrities inserted into a copy of an old Valmor Products Corporation advertisement. The first printing of the album was censored as The Rolling Stone lawyers could not get permission to use those actors' images. The cover design was challenged legally when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe threatened to sue for the use of their likenesses without permission. Similarly, Valmor did take legal action and were given a monetary award for the use of their design.
The album was quickly reissued with a redesigned cover that removed all the celebrities, whether they had complained or not.

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