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The website "Ultimate Classic Rock" has put together a list of 10 profound events that could have changed the course of rock and roll, or could have done some damage at the very least, starting back in 1958 with Elvis going to the Army....also included: "The Day the Music Died," February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash, how close Randy Rhoads came to NOT auditioning for Ozzie Osbourne's solo band, how close Slash came to being in Poison (even though he said when he walked out of the audition, and C.C. DeVille walked in with makeup and poofed up hair, he thought DeVille was a better fit), the night Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx was dead for a few minutes of a heroin overdose before paramedics brought him back...and when Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin tried to get the band to rap on their album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason"....those stories and more about pivotal moments in rock history, here: