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Born on this day in 1931: Thomas Allen, (Papa Dee), percussionist with American funk band War. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was the best-selling US album of 1973. Allen died from a heart attack while performing on stage on 30 August 1988.

Born on this day in 1947: Brian May, guitarist, singer and songwriter with Queen who had the 1975 UK No.1 single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which returned to No.1 in 1991. Queen scored over 40 other UK Top 40 singles, and also scored the 1980 US No.1 single 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'. May had the solo 1992 UK No.5 single 'Too Much Love Will Kill You'. May was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for 'services to the music industry and his charity work'. May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College, London, in 2007.

Fans have long debated one word in the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run opener “Thunder Road”: some think the words are “Mary’s dress sways” and others have been certain that it’s “Mary’s dress waves.” Official Springsteen material has actually printed it both ways, broadening the debate into meme territory. Finally, the debate has been settled, as The New Yorker’s David Remnick got Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau on the record: “The word is ‘sways,’” Landau said. “That’s the way he wrote it in his original notebooks, that’s the way he sang it on Born to Run in 1975, that’s the way he has always sung it at thousands of shows, and that’s the way he sings it right now on Broadway.”