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.
 
Nov 4th:
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1961
Bob Dylan plays to a crowd of 53 at his Carnegie Hall debut, his first concert outside of the Greenwich Village scene.
The show takes place in the smaller Chapter Hall auditorium.

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1961 -
Cliff Richard scored his first UK No.1 album with his 5th release '21 Today'.
The album was released on October 14, 1961, the exact date of Cliff Richard's 21st birthday.
Side 1 of the album contained rock tunes while side 2 consisted of ballads.


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1963 - John Lennon
The Beatles topped the bill at The Royal Variety Show at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London.
With the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in the audience, this was the night when John Lennon made his famous remark ‘In the cheaper seats you clap your hands. The rest of you, just rattle your jewellery’.
  • The show was broadcast on UK television on the Nov 10th 1963.

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Nov 4th:
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1970 - David Bowie
David Bowie released his third studio album, The Man Who Sold the World in the US - the first with the nucleus of what would become the "Spiders from Mars", backing band.

-The album was released in the UK in April the following year.
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1971 - The Who
The Who opened up The Rainbow Finsbury Park, London, England appearing on the first of three nights.
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1976
A bomb threat delays the start of Bruce Springsteen's concert at the Palladium in New York; Springsteen jokes that the threat was made by former manager Mike Appel, who's currently suing him.
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1992 - Elton John
Elton John and Bernie Taupin sign a $39 million songwriting deal with publishing giant Warner/Chappell, the largest such deal up to that time.
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1997 - The Beach Boys
Capitol Records releases the four-disc set The Pet Sounds Sessions, chronicling the creation of The Beach Boys' classic 1966 LP.
In addition to a remastered version of the original album, it also contains outtakes, unreleased tracks, and a capella tracks.
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2013 - Rihanna
Rihanna joined The Beatles and Elvis Presley as one of just three acts to top the UK singles chart seven times over seven years.
The singer made the No.1 spot, as the featured artist on Eminem's new track 'The Monster'.
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2007 - Eagles
The Eagles went to No.1 on the UK album chart with Long Road Out of Eden.
It was the group's first full studio album since The Long Run in 1979 and became the highest selling album of the year.
 
Nov 5th:
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1956 - The Nat King Cole Show
"The Nat King Cole Show" debuted on NBC-TV in America. The Cole program was the first of its kind hosted by an African-American.

Classic TV Info - The Nat King Cole Show
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1967 - Robin Gibb
Bee Gee Robin Gibb was a passenger on a train which crashed in South East London in England killing 49 people and injuring 78.
Robin was treated for shock after the accident.
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1970
Long since retired from touring with his group, Brian Wilson joins The Beach Boys on stage at the Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles only to suffer inner ear damage in his good ear from an excessively loud sound system.
After losing his balance a few times, he is helped backstage.
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1977 - Sex Pistols
The manager of the Virgin record store in Nottingham, England was arrested for displaying a large poster advertising the new Sex Pistols album, 'Never Mind The Bollock's, Here's The Sex Pistols'.

High street stores banned the album after police warned they could be fined under the 1898 indecent advertising act.

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Nov 5th:
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1982 - The Tube
Channel 4 TV's The Tube had its first showing. Presented by Paula Yates and Jools Holland, the show featured
- an interview with Mick Jagger. and a set from The Jam


The first live act on the show was local band Toy Dolls.
The show ran until 1987 and was named after the plexiglass tunnel which led down into Studio Five at Tyne Tees TV, - the was the place where all the stars from the 80’s subsequently appeared.
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1988 -
'The Locomotion', became the first song to reach the US Top 5 in three different versions, when
Kylie Minogue's reached No.3 on the US chart.
Written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song is notable for appearing in the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade:
for Little Eva in 1962 and
Grand Funk Railroad in 1974.
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1995
A charity performance of The Wizard of Oz in Concert is staged at New York's Lincoln Center, featuring
  • Jewel (Dorothy),
  • Jackson Browne (The Scarecrow),
  • Roger Daltrey (The Tin Man), and
  • Nathan Lane (The Cowardly Lion).
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1998 -
Former Smiths singer Morrissey lost an appeal ruling that all band profits should have been split equally and faced a backdated payout to former Smiths member Mike Joyce estimated at £1million.
 
Nov 5th:
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2003 - Bobby Hatfield
Bobby Hatfield of The Righteous Brothers was found dead in hotel room in Michigan 30 minutes before he was due on stage, aged 63.

The autopsy report from the Kalamazoo County Medical Examiner gave the opinion that Hatfield suffered a sudden, unexpected death due to acute cocaine toxicity.
The Righteous Brothers had the 1965 UK & US No.1 single 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', and the 1990 UK No.1 single 'Unchained Melody' first released in 1965.
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2010 - The Rolling Stones
Keith Richards' autobiography Life was at No. 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller list. The book by The Rolling Stones guitarist went on to be a million seller.
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2012
With one day to go until the United States presidential election, dozens of music stars take to the press to support incumbent Barack Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Those voicing support for Obama include
This should come as no surprise, as music celebrities traditionally come out to support the progressive candidate in elections.
 
Nov 6th:
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1953
Frankie Laine's "Answer Me" is banned by the BBC, who claim the lyrics "Answer me, Lord above" are mocking Christian prayer.
Also banned is Lee Lawrence's "Crying In The Chapel."

1954
Elvis Presley, who has been playing a radio concert show called the Louisiana Hayride, records a radio commercial for Southern Maid Doughnuts, who sponsors the show.
It was the only commercial he ever recorded and was not false advertising: He really did love those hot donuts.

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Nov 6th:
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1960
Days before he's elected as the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy is a houseguest at Frank Sinatra's home in Palm Springs.
After Kennedy leaves, the guest room boasts a new bronze plaque that reads: "John F. Kennedy slept here November 6th and November 7th 1960."

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1968
The Monkees movie Head is released.
The Three quarter of a million dollar feature film, Head opened in New York City.
Instead of being aimed at their target audience of teeny boppers, the film contained a dark theme about the manipulation of the group with walk-on appearances by inappropriate guests and scenes of Vietnam War atrocities and complete with a scene where the group jumps to their death off a bridge.

Reviews were harsh and the picture was a box office disaster - but later becomes a cult classic.

 
Nov 6th:
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1970
Aerosmith perform their first-ever gig when they play at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, Massachusetts.
They go on to become the best-selling American rock band of all time, selling over 150 million albums worldwide.
They also hold the record for the most gold and multi-platinum albums by an American group.

1975
The Sex Pistols play their first-ever gig, opening for the band Bazooka Joe at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
Bazooka Joe's lead singer is Stuart Goddard, who is so inspired by the set that he drops out of art school and takes the name Adam Ant.

1976
Blue Öyster Cult land their biggest hit as "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" peaks at #12 in the US.
The song is not about suicide, but about reuniting with loved ones in the afterlife.

 
Nov 6th:
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1982
The first single from Michael Jackson's Thriller album, the Paul McCartney duet "The Girl Is Mine," enters the Hot 100 at #45.
With the exception of a two-week stretch between "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" and "Thriller," at least one song from the album is on the chart every week until May 19th, 1984.


1993
Meat Loaf hits #1 in America with "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)."
The version that opens his album Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell is over 12-minutes long, but the single is cut to 5:13.


2000 - Madonna
Madonna played her first show in eight years when she performed a short 20 minute set at New York's Roseland Ballroom.
Madonna wore a tight black vest bearing the sequinned name of 18 year-old Britney Spears.


2007 - Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf cancelled his European tour after being diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal cords.
The 60-year-old had already scrapped two gigs on doctor's orders.
Speculation had surrounded the tour after he cut short a gig in Newcastle, telling the audience it is "the last show I may ever do in my life".
 
Nov 7th:
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1975 - Steve Anderson
A new world record was set for continuous guitar string plucking by Steve Anderson who played for 114 hours 17 minutes.

1979
The Rose, starring Bette Midler as a rock singer who hits the big time, opens in theaters.
The film is based on the life of Janis Joplin, but filmmakers can't secure the rights to use her image or story.
Midler gets an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for the role.

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1981
"Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates hits #1, thanks to a detective-themed video that gets lots of airplay on MTV, which debuted three months earlier.


1987 - Tiffany
Tiffany became the youngest act to score a US No.1 since Michael Jackson ('Ben', in 1972) with 'I Think we're Alone Now'.
The song written by Ritchie Cordell was initially a 1967 hit for Tommy James & the Shondells.

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Nov 7th:
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1967 - Elton John
Reg Dwight (Elton John) and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin signed to DJM publishing, their signatures had to be witnessed by their parents because they were both under 21 years of age.
- Taupin answered an advertisement for a lyric writer placed in the New Musical Express, the pair have since collaborated on over 30 albums.


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1969 - The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones kicked off their 6th North American tour at Fort Collins state University, Colorado.
Also on the bill was
 
Nov 8th:
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1961
The Beach Boys release their first single, "Surfin'."



1962
A bullet is fired at Motown's tour bus while traveling through Savannah, Georgia, but fortunately none of the (all African-American) stars are hurt.
The entertainers are on a two-month long, package tour featuring
  • The Miracles,
  • The Supremes,
  • Mary Wells,
  • Marvin Gaye,
  • The Contours,
  • The Marvelettes,
  • Martha And The Vandellas and
  • 'Little' Stevie Wonder.

1963
Dick Clark begins his latest "Caravan of Stars" tour in Teaneck, New Jersey, featuring


1964
Judy Garland and daughter Liza Minnelli perform together at the London Palladium, a performance recorded for American television and the LP Live At The London Palladium.

 

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