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December 25 Birthdays


Henry Vestine - (1944 - 1997)



Jimmy Buffett - 70



Annie Lennox - 62



Clara Barton - (1821-1912)



Humphrey Bogart - (1899-1957)



Sissy Spacek - 67



Rod Serling - (1924-1975)






December 25th

1987: Ted Nugent appeared on Late Night with David Letterman where he sang The Christmas Song with a bogus Letterman.

1981: The J. Geils Band performed a Christmas Day concert at the Norfolk Correctional Center outside of Boston. During the concert, singer Peter Wolf told the inmates “We wanna be the first to buy you all a free drink on the outside.”

1977: The Sex Pistols performed their last concert in the U.K. before their reunion in 1996 at the Ivanhoes Club in Huddersfield, U.K. The concert was a charity performance for children of firemen, laid-off workers and single parents.

1976: Boston peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “More Than a Feeling” which was their first top ten single in the U.S.

1967: Paul McCartney and his girlfriend of four years Jane Asher announced their engagement. The following July the engagement was broken off.

1965: The Dave Clark Five reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the only time with “Over and Over” which spent one week at number one.

1964: The Beatles performed their first Christmas Day concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.

1959: Ringo Starr received his first proper drum set as a Christmas gift from his parents as they couldn’t afford a proper set when he was a child.

1958: Alan Freed held the first show of a ten day Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular at Lowe’s State Theater in New York City. Artists on the bill included Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, and The Everly Brothers.



Birthdays:

Henry Vestine - Guitarist for Canned Heat born in 1944

Noel Redding - Bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience born in 1945

Jimmy Buffett born in 1946