This day in 'Musical' history

Oct 30th:
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1970 - Hotlegs
Hotlegs made their live debut supporting The Moody Blues at the Festival Hall, London.
Their only hit 'Neanderthal Man' made No. 2 in July 1970.


The members from the group went on to become 10cc.
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1975
Bob Dylan performs the first show of his Rolling Thunder Revue at the War Memorial Auditorium in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- Later the subject of two documentaries, the unusual tour is no ordinary cash grab.

Dylan has planned the Revue as a way to escape the soulless super-stardom he's been living and return to his roots.
Most of the shows are in intimate settings in small towns - a distinct contrast to the big productions he's gotten accustomed to.

Dylan also wants the experience to be accessible to all of his fans, so low ticket prices are essential.
The Rolling Thunder Revue is truly intended to be "for the people." The tour is kept primarily in New England but sneaks into Canada for four shows and wraps up in locations around New York City. One stop is at the University of Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts, home to Beat Generation novelist and Dylan inspiration Jack Kerouac.

Dylan visits the writer's grave while there. Joan Baez, Bob Neuwrith, Joni Mitchell, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Roger McGuinn, and others join Dylan on tour.
The Revue wraps up at Madison Square Garden, where Dylan plays "Hurricane" at a benefit show for boxer Rubin Carter, whom Dylan believes was wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn't commit.

Most accounts of the tour remember it as a magical experience unlike anything that came before.
Along the way, much of it is filmed, resulting in two unusual documentaries.

Renaldo and Clara, released in 1978, presents the footage alongside fictional vignettes, with some strange editing - it is almost universally panned by fans and critics alike. The 2019 effort Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese gets a much better reception.

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Oct 30th:
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1984
Linda Ronstadt makes her operatic debut in La Boheme in New York.

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2000 - Britney Spears
A new web site was launched to help teach children basic Physics. www.britneyspears.ac featured the singer to illustrate mathematical equations.
Visitors could access physics theories generously interspersed with photos of Britney Spears.

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Oct 31st:
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1964
"Baby Love" by The Supremes goes to #1 in America, giving them their second chart-topper (following "Where Did Our Love Go") and making them the first Motown act with two #1 hits.
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1964
Landing in Boston, Ray Charles is arrested when heroin and marijuana are found when he is searched at customs.
--- He enters rehab to avoid jail.

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Nov 1st:
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1997
Fiona Apple appears on the cover of Spin magazine under the headline, "She's Been a Bad, Bad Girl."
Apple is peeved at the portrayal and writes a 90-word poem in response, which becomes the title over her next album, When The Pawn...

When The Pawn..... (Fiona Apple) by Kevan Edan​

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King. What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight. Published at the web's largest poetry site.

allpoetry.com

https://allpoetry.com/poem/319170-When-The-Pawn.....--Fiona-Apple--by-Kevan-Edan
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1999
Celine Dion is inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame during the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Gold Ribbon Awards gala in Montreal.
for the accolade.

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Nov 1st:
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1959
Ray Charles leaves his old label, Atlantic, for a better deal at ABC-Paramount Records.
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1964
The Beach Boys begin their first UK tour with a show in London.

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1970
The Festfolk Quartet, play their first-ever concert at a Gothenburg, Sweden restaurant.

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1979
Bob Dylan debuts the songs from his new album, a Christian polemic called Slow Train Coming,


...... on the first night of his new tour in San Francisco, California. A shocked audience boos the new material throughout the set.
 
Nov 1st

1971
Olivia Newton-John releases her first solo album, If Not For You.

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1975
At the Labor Temple in Minneapolis, Faces play their last concert.

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Lead singer Rod Stewart is already well into his solo career and guitarist Ron Wood has been playing with The Rolling Stones for months.
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1975
Elton John's "Island Girl" hits #1 in America for the first of three weeks, knocking off a song Elton sang backup on and released on his Rocket label: "Bad Blood" by Neil Sedaka.

 
Nov 2nd:
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1920
KDKA in Pittsburgh becomes the first commercially licensed radio station in the United States.
- They are not the first station on the air, but the first to get the broadcast license.
With consumers unsure of the benefits of radio, the station announces results of the Harding-Cox presidential election, getting the news to those with a radio much faster than everyone who had to wait for the morning paper.

KDKA (AM) - Wikipedia

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1956
A riot breaks out at Fats Domino's show in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with police resorting to tear gas to break up the unruly crowd.
Fats jumps out of a window to avoid the melee; he and two other band members are slightly injured.

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1958 - Tommy Edwards
Tommy Edwards was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'It's All In The Game.


' Written by Charles Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No.1 pop single to have been co-written by a US Vice President.
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Nov 2nd:
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1974
George Harrison begins his Dark Horse tour with Ravi Shankar in Vancouver, BC.
It's the first solo tour for any Beatle, and a drag on Harrison, who doesn't travel well.
- It's the last time he tours until 1991, when he joins Eric Clapton on some dates in Japan.


1974
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's greatest hits album So Far goes to #1 in America.
The group hasn't released a studio album since 1970 but has reunited for a tour and plans to start recording again.
Unfortunately, longstanding squabbles resurface and the new album doesn't materialize.


1978 - Police
The Police released their debut album, Outlandos d'Amour. The working title, 'Police Brutality,' was changed to make is sound more romantic.
The title loosely translates as 'Outlaws of Love' but the term 'Outlandos' is actually a mix of the words for 'Outlaws' and 'Commandos.'
Elevated by the success of its lead single, 'Roxanne', Outlandos d'Amour peaked at No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 23 in the United States. The album spawned two additional hit singles: 'Can't Stand Losing You' and 'So Lonely'.

1978
David Cassidy stars in a new cop show called David Cassidy: Man Undercover.

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  • It is cancelled after 10 episodes.
 
Nov 2nd:
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1984
The Reverend Marvin Gay Sr., father of singer Marvin Gaye (who added the e when he joined Motown) is found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his son, but courts rule the action was taken in self-defense, and the elder Gay is given five years' probation.
  • He later died at a nursing home in 1998.
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1996 - Eva Cassidy
American vocalist and guitarist Eva Cassidy, died of skin cancer aged 33.
Two years after her death, Cassidy's music was brought to the attention of British audiences, when her versions of 'Fields of Gold' and 'Over the Rainbow' were played by Mike Harding and Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2.

  • She is the only artist to score three posthumous UK No.1 albums: 2001’s Songbird; 2002’s Imagine and 2003’s American Tune.
In 2001 she also had a UK No.42 single with ‘Over The Rainbow’ and
in 2007 UK No.1 single 'What a Wonderful World' with Katie Melua.
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2001
..... each take three trophies at the Billboard Music Video Awards.
 
Nov 3rd:
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1962
The Crystals' "He's A Rebel" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.
--- None of the actual group appears on the track, as Phil Spector uses Darlene Love to sing lead.
The real Crystals learn about the song when they hear it on the radio.

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1964
Mayor Ralph Locker of Cleveland, Ohio, bans The Rolling Stones from playing the city ever again after a teenager falls from a balcony during the group's concert.
Locker is quoted as commenting, "Such groups do not add to the community's culture or entertainment."

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1973 - Hall and Oates
Daryl Hall and John Oates release Abandoned Luncheonette, their first album under their own names (a previous album was released as "Whole Oates"). The tracks "Laughing Boy," "She's Gone" and "Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)" become concert favorites for the duo.

The most well-known track from the album 'She's Gone' did not become a hit when first released but gained momentum from two later covers, one by Lou Rawls, and one by Tavares.
After the latter cover topped the Billboard R&B chart in 1974, the original was re-released and became a top 10 pop hit in 1976, reaching No. 7 in the US.

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1973
Michael Jackson popularizes The Robot when he busts out some futuristic dance moves during a Jackson 5 performance of "Dancing Machine" on Soul Train.

 
Nov 3rd:
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1973
Michael Jackson popularizes The Robot when he busts out some futuristic dance moves during a Jackson 5 performance of "Dancing Machine" on Soul Train.


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1973 - David Bowie
David Bowie scored his second UK No.1 album when Pinups started a five-week run at the top of the charts.

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The set contained Bowie covering his favourite 60s songs; his version of The Mersey's 'Sorrow' made No.3 on the UK singles chart, (first recorded by The McCoys in 1965).
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1979
Days before his 18th birthday, teen idol Leif Garrett, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, crashes his mother's Porsche 914 en route to buy cocaine.
He escapes serious injury but his best friend, Roland Winkler, is left a paraplegic.
  • The consequences:
Garrett was charged with drunk driving as a juvenile. His driver's license was suspended for a year, and he was placed on a year's probation
In a civil negligence lawsuit filed by Winkler's family, a jury awarded $7.1 million in damages.
The emotional and legal fallout from the crash deeply affected Garrett and was a major catalyst for his long-term struggles with drug addiction.
  • Reconciliation: In 1999, as part of a Behind the Music special, Garrett and Winkler were reunited.
During the emotional meeting, Winkler expressed that he had long ago forgiven Garrett and even said that Garrett's actions immediately following the crash had saved his life.
  • Later life: Winkler passed away in 2017 at the age of 57. He had become an inspiration to many, helping other paraplegics and sponsoring alcoholics and drug users.
 

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