THIS DATE IN MUSIC HISTORY (December 28th): 1943: Chas Hodges (Heads Hands And Feet and Chas & Dave) was born 1946: Edgar Winter was born 1947: Dingeman Ariaan Henry Van Der Sluys (The Easybeats, bass as Dick Diamonde) was born 1950: Alex Chilton (The Box Tops, guitar and vocals) was born -- he died in 2010 of heart disease 1968: The Beatles were at #1 on the US album charts with the White Album 1968: The three-day Miami Pop Festival took place -- it was the first major rock festival held on the East Coast of the US and included Chuck Berry, The McCoys, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, The Turtles, The Box Tops, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Pacific Gas and Electric, Procol Harum, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly and The Grateful Dead. 1978: Some Girls by The Rolling Stones was Rolling Stone magazines pick for Album of the Year 1983: Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys) drowned, at age 39, while diving below a friends yacht to retrieve things he had thrown overboard while in a drunken stupor 2010: Gene Kelton died
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