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This Day in Music History

Posted: 12:57 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, 2012

This Day in Music History: Friday, September 14th 

By Mike Lapitino

This Day in Music History...

1968: Truth, the debut album by The Jeff Beck Group, featuring singer Rod Stewart and bassist Ron Wood, enters Billboard's Top 40.

1968: Pete Townsend tells Rolling Stone magazine he's working on a "rock opera" about a deaf, dumb and blind boy.

1995: In Hartford, Connecticut, David Bowie begins his Outside tour with Nine Inch Nails.

1999: Sotheby's in London auctions off the black and red Gallotone Champion acoustic guitar that John Lennon was playing on July 6th, 1957- the day he met Paul McCartney at the St. Peter's Church Picnic in Woolton, England.  The buyer, an unidentified New Yorker, pays 150,000 pounds ($224,000) for the instrument, which cost the future Beatles about $25.

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