12-08: Beatles Tokyo 1966 - Uriah Heep Tokyo 1973 - Hanoi Rocks Osaka 1983 - Pantera Osaka 1994 - Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs 1959 - Antonio Carlos Jobim Urubu 1976

Not shown above: Antonio Maria Mazzoni, John Mills, Sr. & Pony Sherrell Metcalf

1785 – Antonio Maria Mazzoni (Italian composer)
1853 – Jonas Chickering (American piano craftsman)
1900 – Henry Russell (English song composer, singer & organist)
1923 – Dom Joseph Pothier (French Benedictine abbot & musicologist, reformer of Gregorian Chant)
1924 – Xaver Scharwenka (German pianist, composer & teacher)
1925 – Carl Wilhelm Drescher (German composer)
1933 – Jan Brandts Buys (Dutch composer & organist, active in Austria)
1934 – Bernhard Sekles (German composer, conductor, pianist & teacher, had several notable students)
1939 – Ernest Schelling (American composer, pianist & conductor, pupil of Paderewski)
1953 – Frederick Ranalow (Irish bass-baritone)
1955 – Jacques Handschin (Swiss musicologist)
1956 – Edgar Bainton (English composer)
1961 – William Beatton Moonie (Scottish composer)
1967 – John Mills, Sr. (American singer & barber, father of the Mills Brothers)
1969 – Vincenzo Davico (Italian composer)
1971 – Marie Collier (Australian soprano)
1975 – Gary Thain (New Zealand rock bass guitarist, Uriah Heep)
1980 – John Lennon (English rock singer, songwriter & guitarist, The Beatles)
1981 – Maria Pedrini (Italian soprano)
1982 – Big Walter Horton (American blues harmonica player)
1982 – Marty Robbins (American country singer, songwriter, guitarist & pianist)
1984 – Razzle (English rock drummer, Hanoi Rocks)
1988 – Toubo Rhoad (American soul singer, The Persuasions)
1990 – John Alexander (American tenor)
1990 – Pony Sherrell Metcalf (American singer)
1991 – Buck Clayton (American jazz trumpeter)
1994 – Antônio Carlos Jobim (Brazilian composer, guitarist, pianist, singer & arranger)
1996 – Jules Bastin (Belgian baritone)
2003 – Rubén González (Cuban pianist, Buena Vista Social Club)
2004 – Dimebag Darrell (American metal guitarist & songwriter, Pantera, Damageplan)
2006 – Martha Tilton (American jazz & pop singer)
2009 – Luis Días (Dominican rock singer, songwriter & guitarist, "El Terror")

That was an awfully popular day for it, wasn't it? I'm sure you can tell what I was going for with this post. Unfortunately, I was not able to locate any Marty Robbins or Antonio Carlos Jobim live in Japan! So you'll just have to settle for a classic studio album from each.

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