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Today in History - Dec 5

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Today in history. It is the fifth day of December,
the three hundred and thirty ninth day of the year,
and if you're counting, that means this twenty six days
until the end of the year. We're opening our segment
with Paul McCartney and his band Wings in a track

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from the fifth album since his departure from the Beatles,
Band on the Run. The album recorded in Lagos in Nigeria.
Paul McCartney wanted to record albums and exotic locations. He
went into the studio with just his wife Linda and
Denny Lane, just the three of them, and what an
amazing album they put together. Was McCartney's most successful album.

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And this is one of the hit singles from Band
on the Run. Jet Jumping right back to nineteen thirty
five and today Michael Joseph Savage took up office at
as Labour's first Prime Minister of New Zealand today in
nineteen thirty five. Right famous people on the list having

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birthdays today and topping the list is the singer, the
opera singer Jose Carreras. What a magnificent voice he's got.
Spanish born careers, of course, was part of the these
three tenors, wasn't he Happy birthday to him today. He

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turns seventy eight. Birthday today. Also is American singer Andy Kim.
Remember this head of his His real name is androis
a Yolka Mandy Kim. He turns seventy eight today. Men,
he happy returns to Andy Kim. It's Jim Messina's birthday

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from the band Loggins and Messina Live. He's seventy seven.
Also a member of Buffalo's Springfield John What there Is
from The Go Go Deal, The Goo Goo Dolls. It's
fifty nine. She's fifty ninth today. That's all Doctor Dre

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birthdays as well. Happy birthday to Doctor Dre Socket He's
sixty one today. American actress from the Mission Impossible movies,
Paul Patton, and she turns forty nine. Frankie Munnons Malcolm
in the Middle thirty nine today. And IndyCar racer James Hintcliffe,

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winner of six IndyCar races. It's his thirty eighth birthday
today and this was the day twenty one years ago.
The Coldplay front man Chris Martin married Gwyneth Paltrow a
year after they met backstage at one of his concerts.
They divorced in twenty sixteen after consciously uncoupling a lockdad

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recently in New Zealand, Chris Martin and there we go
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