Music History
Aug 4 Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant is seriously hurt in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece
Contract of Interest
Aug 5 Stevie Wonder signs a 7-year, 7 album, with $13 million advance contract with Motown Records
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Aug 8 Hank Williams Jr. falls off the side of Ajax Peak in Montana
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Aug 14 Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
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Aug 16 British singer Peter Gabriel announces his departure from the rock group Genesis
- Aug 16 Musical revue "Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater, NYC, after 108 performances
- Aug 23 British "Free" guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack, dies for good in 1976
Born To Run
Aug 25 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's landmark third album "Born To Run"
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