7 August

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7 AUGUST

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1996 ZZ Top's album Eliminator is certified Diamond for sales of 10 million copies in America.

1987 At a Fleetwood Mac band meeting, Lindsey Buckingham blows up at his bandmates and quits the group, forcing them to tour without him in support of their latest album, Tango In The Night. He doesn't re-join until 1997.

1984 R&B singer Esther Phillips dies of drug-induced liver and kidney failure at age 48 in Carson, California. Known for comeback country tune "Release Me."

1981 It's "Wolverton Mountain Day" in Arkansas in honor of the Claude King song "Wolverton Mountain," which is named after a real mountain in the state.

1979 Led Zeppelin make their last live performance in the UK.

1976 Elton John & Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" hits #1 in America for the first of four weeks.

1974 J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf marries movie star Faye Dunaway in a Beverly Hills courtroom. The couple divorce in 1979.

1971 The Bee Gees' "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" hits #1 in America for the first of four weeks.

1970 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention release Just Another Band From L.A.

1967 Following two albums recorded as member of the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa releases his debut solo album, Lumpy Gravy, in which he conducts an orchestra but doesn't actually play any instruments himself in order to get around some contractual issues with Verve and MGM Records. MGM promptly sues him, anyway.

1966 Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses is born in Atlanta, Georgia. After suffering a brain injury from a bike accident at 16, she starts hearing noises in her head and develops a split personality she calls Rat Girl, who emerges when she writers and performs.

1965 The Turtles release "It Ain't Me Babe."

1964 EMF songwriter/guitarist Ian Dench is born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

1960 Jacquie O'Sullivan of Bananarama is born in Hendon, London, England.

1958 Bruce Dickinson, who takes over as Iron Maiden's lead singer in 1981, is born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. His soaring vocals lead the band into a new era as they become one of the most popular UK rock bands. Dickinson-sung hits include "Aces High" and "Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter."

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Heavy Metal Hits Theaters

1981

The animated sci-fi film Heavy Metal is released. Although it shares its name with the hard-rock genre, the film isn't intended to have anything to do with music, but instead is an anthology of various stories from the comic magazine Heavy Metal. Almost as an afterthought, an all-star soundtrack is added, featuring songs by Sammy Hagar, Devo, Blue Öyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Journey, and Black Sabbath, to name a few.

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