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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
1 NOVEMBER
1946: Rick Grech
1968: George Harrison releases the Beatles’ first solo opus, Wonderwall, and the first LP on the Apple label.
1979: Bob Dylan is booed by the audience at the start of his Slow Train Coming tour.
2 NOVEMBER
1944: Keith Emerson (ELP)
1944: Dave Pegg – Fairport Convention
1966: Bluesman ‘Mississippi’ John Hurt dies at 73 years.
3 NOVEMBER
1943: Bert Jansch
1957: Sun Records releases Jerry Lee Lewis’ ‘Great Balls of Fire’ b/w ‘You Win Again’. It goes to No 1 on the C&W charts and the UK pop charts.
1961: Jimmie Rodgers (1897 –1933) is unanimously elected the first singer to the Country Hall of Fame in Nashville.
1967: Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac releases its first single in England, ‘I Believe My Time Ain’t Long’.
4 NOVEMBER
1931: Ike Turner
I940: Delbert McClinton
1952: Chris Difford (Squeeze)
1957–1982: Jame Honeyman Scott (The Pretenders)
1961: Bob Dylan makes his concert hall debut in NYC.
1963: The Beatles headline the Royal Command Performance. John Lennon urges sections of the audience to ‘rattle your jewellery, while those in the cheaper seats should merely applaud.’
1977: The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese’s doco of The Band’s 1976 farewell performances is released.
5 NOVEMBER
19461973: Gram Parsons
1948: Pete Hammill
1965: The Who’s ‘My Generation’ released.
1974: Traffic receives a gold record for what turns out to be its final LP, When The Eagle Flies.
1966: ‘Good Vibrations’ by The Beach Boys enters the English charts and eventually goes to No 1.
6 NOVEMBER
1941: Doug Sahm
1973: Phil Kaufman and Michael Martin are charged with the theft of a coffin containing the remains of Gram Parsons.
1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig in London.
7 NOVEMBER
1942: Johnny Rivers
1943: (Roberta Joan) Joni Mitchell (nee Anderson)
8 NOVEMBER
1946: Roy Wood
1944: Bonnie Bramlett
1949: Bonnie Raitt (who appeared on the very first cover of Rhythms Magazine in 1992)
1954: Rickie Lee Jones
1970: Jim Morrison, 27, records the poetry that the other members of The Doors set to music after his death for the 1978 LP An American Prayer.
1974: Ivory Joe Hunter dies at 63 years.
9 NOVEMBER
1941: Tom Fogerty
1961: Brian Epstein pays a lunchtime visit to the Cavern Club to see a group called The Beatles.
1967: The first edition of Rolling Stone hits the streets. John Lennon is on the cover.
10 NOVEMBER
1919: Hubert Laws – flautist
1929: George “Mojo” Buford
1948: Greg Lake (ELP)
1978: The Clash’s second album, Give ‘em Enough Rope, is released in the UK.
11 NOVEMBER
1927: Mose Allison
1929: LaVern Baker
1944: Jesse Colin Young (Youngbloods)
1946: Chris Dreja (Yardbirds)
1958: Hank Ballard & The Midnighters record the original of ‘The Twist’ at King Studios in Ohio.
1970: Two albums entitled Plastic Ono Band are released simultaneously on Apple in US and UK. One is from John Lennon, the other from Yoko Ono.
1974: Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley is killed in a motorcycle accident, three blocks from where Duane Allman was killed just over a year previously.
1975: Gough Whitlam is sacked as PM by Sir John Kerr.
12 NOVEMBER
1906–77: Bukka White
1943: John Maus (Walker Brothers)
1945: Neil Young
1955: Billboard cites Elvis Presley as the most promising C&W artist of the year.
1977: Never Mind the Bollocks – Here’s The Sex Pistols reaches No 1 on UK charts.
13 NOVEMBER
1943: John Paul Hammond Jr
1949: Terry Reid (once considered as singer for Led Zeppelin but who recommended Robert Plant).
1965: James Brown’s ‘I Got You (I Feel Good)’ enters the pop and R&B charts.
14 NOVEMBER
1955: Re-issue of Bill Haley and The Comets’ ‘Rock Around the Clock’ registers again on the UK charts. It will chart again in 1956,1968 and 1974.
1975: Queen release A Night at the Opera in the UK.
15 NOVEMBER
1933–72: Clyde McPhatter
1937: Little Willie John
1976: Jackson Browne’s critically acclaimed fourth LP, The Pretender, is certified gold.
16 NOVEMBER
1873: William Christopher Handy
1931: Hubert Sumlin – blues guitarist extraordinaire
1956: Elvis Presley’s film debut in Love Me Tender (for some reason he never wins an Oscar).
1971: Led Zeppelin’s debut album, released in 1969, goes gold.
1974: John Lennon has his first solo No.1 single in the US with ‘Whatever Gets You Through the Night’. The album Walls and Bridges is also No 1.
17 NOVEMBER
1938: Gordon Lightfoot
1941: Gene Clarke
1946: Martin Barre (Jethro Tull)
1958: Eddie Cochrane’s ‘Summertime Blues’ enters the UK pop charts at No 20. Later covered by The Who.
1970: Elton John’s concert in NYC is broadcast live on WPWFM and is recorded for his 11-7-70 LP.
1971: Rod Stewart and the Faces release A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse.
18 NOVEMBER
1936: Hank Ballard
1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s third album, Electric Ladyland, earns the group its third gold record.
1971: Blues harmonica player and singer Herman ‘Junior’ Parker dies at 39 during surgery.
1972: Danny Whitten, former member of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse, dies of OD, aged 29.
1999: Doug Sahm dies of heart disease, aged 58.
19 NOVEMBER
1976: Van Morrison’s Moondance, released in 1970, goes gold.
1979: Chuck Berry is released from a Californian prison farm after serving half of a four-month sentence for tax evasion.
20 NOVEMBER
1925: Robert Kennedy
1942: Norman ‘Spirit In The Sky’ Greenbaum
1946–71: Duane Allman
1947: Joe Walsh
1961: Billboard reports on the global twist craze.
21 NOVEMBER
1904: Coleman Hawkins
1948: Alphonse Mouzon
1941: Dr John (Mac Rebennack)
1960: Ray Charles has four hits in the top 100.
1967: The Who releases, via Decca, The Who Sell Out, a true concept album.
1982: Joni Mitchell marries her bassist Larry Klein in Malibu.
22 NOVEMBER
1889: Hoagie Carmichael
1946: Aston Barrett
1950: Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, The Heads)
1951: Steve Van Zandt
1955: A&R man Steve Scholes signs Elvis Presley to RCA Victor for $40,000.
1965: Bob Dylan marries Sara Lowndes.
1968: The Beatles (aka The Double White Album) is released.
1969: Sandy Denny and Tyger Hutchings leave Fairport Convention to pursue solo careers. This leaves Richard Thompson on lead vocals.
1981: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood jam with greats Muddy Waters (whose song ‘Rollin’ Stone’ gave the Stones their name) and Buddy Guy in Chicago.
23 NOVEMBER
1939: Betty ‘Shoop Shoop Song’ Everett
1940: Gerry Marsden
1967: Police arrest Jerry Lee Lewis outside the gates of Graceland where he is brandishing a pistol, shooting bass players in the chest etc. Charged with various offences, Jerry said he only wanted to use Elvis’s lucky toilet!
24 NOVEMBER
1945: Lee Michaels
1941: Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn
1969: The Rolling Stones’ Let it Bleed certified gold.
1972: David Bowie releases ‘Jean Genie’, a song about a friend, Iggy Pop.
2007: Federal Election day. Is it Kevin 07?
25 NOVEMBER
1897: Willie “The Lion” Smith, pianist
1914: Eddie Boyd
1946: Bev Bevan
1966: Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London performing debut at the Bag o’ Nails.
1969: John Lennon returns his MBE to the Palace citing various issues including current English political stances and the poor reception given the Plastic Ono Band’s ‘Cold Turkey’.
1978: New York new wave band Talking Heads chart with their second album More Songs About Buildings and Food.
1983: The Band performs reunion concerts in NYC, minus Robbie Robertson, who refused to tour. Instead, Earl Cate was on guitar.
1991: Rick Griffin, designer of album covers for the Grateful Dead, and the Rolling Stone logo, dies in a motorcycle accident.
26 NOVEMBER
1938: Tina Turner (Annie Bullock)
1945: John McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
1968: Cream perform their last concert for more than 30 years at the Royal Albert Hall.
1982: Jazz giant Miles Davis is married for the third time. The bride is Cicely Tyson, and the best man is Bill Cosby.
27 NOVEMBER
1942–70: James Marshall Hendrix
1933: Floyd Kramer
1945: Randy Brecker
1967: Capitol Records releases The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour in the US.
28 NOVEMBER
1940: Bruce Channel
1929: Berry Gordy Jr
1944: Randy Newman
1964: ‘Leader of the Pack’ by the Shangri Las reaches No.1 on the US pop charts.
1974: John Lennon makes a rare live appearance to accompany Elton John on several songs after ‘Whatever Gets You Through the Night’ hits No 1.
29 NOVEMBER
1915: Billy Strayhorn, composer
1941: Dennis Doherty (Mamas & Papas)
1940: Chuck Mangione
1943: John Mayall
1944: Felix Cavaliere (Young Rascals)
1959: Bobby Darin wins a Grammy for Record of the Year, ‘Mack The Knife.’
1968: John Lennon becomes the first Beatle charged with possession of cannabis.
30 NOVEMBER
1915: Brownie McGhee
1929: Dick Clark
1945: Roger Glover
1953: Shuggie Otis
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