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July 4, 1964
"I Get Around" becomes the first US number one single for The Beach Boys. In the UK, it would be the band's first Top Ten hit.

July 4, 1974
Despite the fact that they have the #4 song in the US with "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and a current Platinum album with "Pretzel Logic", Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagan play their final gig together in Santa Monica, California. They would not tour again for the next eighteen years.

July 4, 1976
Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is released in the US, where it will reach #1.

July 4, 1983
Wayne Newton replaced the Beach Boys at the White House Fourth of July party after US Interior Secretary James Watt deemed the band "unsuitable" for the occasion.

July 4, 1986
More than 40,000 people flocked to a race track in Manor, Texas where Willie Nelson presided over an 18-hour Farm Aid Two concert, aimed at helping save US farmers from financial disaster. Among the performers were the Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings and Judy Collins. The first Farm Aid concert was held in September 1985 in Champaign, Illinois.

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