May 5

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Happy birthday to Bill Ward, drummer for Black Sabbath for many years born on this day in 1948

1968 – Buffalo Springfield plays their last concert in Long Beach, they band doesn’t perform together again until 2011.

1978 – Bob Seger releases his tenth studio album Stranger in Town featuring “Old Time Rock and Roll” and “Hollywood Nights”

1984 – Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde marries Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr. The two were married in a horse drawn carriage in Central Park, New York City.

2013 – Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant obtained a temporary restraining order against an overzealous female fan who claimed that they were in a relationship. Robert insisted the pair has never met.