A big happy birthday to the legend that is Bruce Springsteen, born this day (sept 23) 1949.

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in 1977, David Bowie released “Heroes,” which would become one of the most celebrated singles in his expansive discography. Co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno and co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, the song was recorded in the middle of 1977 at Hansa Studio 2 in West Berlin. Bowie and Eno built the song around synthesizer overdubs, which was an inventive quirk at the time, while Eno’s frequent collaborator, Robert Fripp, contributed guitar parts. Bowie’s singular vocals, meanwhile, were captured by microphones placed throughout the room, in an innovative “multi-latch” system created by Visconti.

In 1980, Bob Marley performed his final show at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh. Two days ahead of the concert, Marley had collapsed in New York’s Central Park while jogging. He was told to immediately cancel the rest of his US tour dates, but flew to Pittsburgh for one final appearance. Marley collapsed during the set and, just one year later, succumbed to an aggressive form of cancer

In 1969, Northern Illinois University’s Northern Star newspaper ran a story claiming that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash in 1966 and replaced by a look-a-like. The conspiracy theory was picked up by WKNR-FM in Detroit and, soon, the story spread worldwide. The rumor became so prevalent that McCartney eventually came out of seclusion at his Scottish farm to deny the story.