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from the beach boys, pet sounds posted in music by crabapple
The cover for The Beach Boys experimental 1966 album Pet Sounds was shot at the San Diego Zoo. The shot was taken by photographer George Jerman on Feb 15, 1966.
From the liner notes: "The photos of The Beach Boys feeding an assortment of goats was a play on the album's chosen title, Pet Sounds."
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Nas reused the cover concept from his debut for his second album It Was Written showing a more current portrait superimposed on the same city block.
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The photo behind a young Nas on the iconic cover of his first album Illmatic was taken at the Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing project in North America, where Nas grew up in Queens, New York.
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On October 12, 1997, singer/songwriter John Denver was killed when his experimental Rutan Long-EZ plane plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Pacific Grove. A pilot with over 2,700 hours of experience, Denver was 53 years old when he died.
On September 23, 2007, a memorial was dedicated near the location of the plane crash.
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from lynyrd skynyrd posted in music by pete_nice
On October 20, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd and their entourage were flying in a chartered Convair CV-300 when the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi, near the end of its flight from Greenville, SC, to Baton Rouge, LA.
Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray were all killed as a result of the crash. Twenty others survived.
The band was at their height of their popularity when the plane crashed, and many of the members who weren't killed were seriously injured. Since 1987, remaining members of the group have formed several different reiterations of the band.
Music trivia: The band's name is a mocking tribute to their gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School, Leonard Skinner, who had a strict policy against long hair on boys.
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