Fox Facts: August 3

1991 - Pearl Jam play the club RKCNDY in Seattle. 

1987 - Def Leppard's Hysteria album is released in the US.

1986 - The News Of The World breaks the story that Rolling Stones's bass player Bill Wyman, 49, is dating Mandy Smith, 16, and that they had been together since she was 13. 

No charges are pressed against Wyman, and in 1989, the couple gets married in a union that lasts less than a year.

1974- Guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter leaves Steely Dan to join The Doobie Brothers.

1974 - Bad Company's Bad Company LP hits #1.

1971 - Paul McCartney puts Wings in flight. 

1968 - The Doors hit #1 in America for the second.

1963 - The Beatles play The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the last time. 

1963 - James Hetfield (lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist for Metallica) is born in Downey, California.

1926 - Tony Bennett is born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in Astoria, Queens, New York. 

In 1962, he will perform "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" for the first time, and it becomes his signature song.

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