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May 2

1904 Crooner Bing (Harry Lillis) Crosby born in Tacoma, WA.
1933 Mothers of Invention sax and drummer John Lee (Bunk) Gardner born.
1935 Link Wray born.
1943 Original Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine born.
1944 Argent vocalist John Verity born.
1945 Doo wop singer Randy Cain (Four Guys, who became the Delfonics after Cain was drafted) is born in Philadelphia.
1945 Steppenwolf organist Goldy McJohn born.
1946 Singer Lesley Gore ("It's My Party") born.
1948 One of the many Gatlin Brothers, Larry, born in Odessa, TX.
1951 Joe Callis of the Human League born.
1957 Disgraceful and disgraced Senator Joseph McCarthy dies.
1961 Bruce Robert Howard, known as Dr. Robert of the Blow Monkeys, born.
1979 Following the primiere of the film, Quadrophenia, based on the Who LP of the same name, the band plays its first public gig since the death of Keith Moon.
1980 Pink Floyd's single "Another Brick In the Wall" (with lyrics like "we don't need no education, we don't need no thought control, we don't need your dark sarcasm") is banned by the South African government after Black school children adopt it as their anthem.
1993 For Women, a British Cosmo-like magazine, publishes a shoping list of their most wanted musical centerfolds, and the prices they will pay for the nude photos. The list was published when members of the rock band Oasis refuse to strip at any price. Other refusenicks include Michael Hutchence of INXS ($48,000) and low on the list ex-Pogue, Shane MacGowan.
1995 At a party Kurt Cobain od's. It is becoming a familiar parlor trick.