This day in 'Musical' history

Nov 8th:
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1994
Sonny Bono, half of Sonny and Cher and former mayor of Palm Springs, Calfornia, is elected to the US House of Representatives, representing the 44th district in California.

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1995
Sony gets control of the publishing rights to many Beatles songs when Michael Jackson merges his ATV Music Publishing with Sony Music Publishing in a deal estimated at $600 million.
Jackson purchased the Beatles catalog in 1985 for $47.5 million.
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2012 - Jermaine Jackson
Reports surfaced that Jermaine Jackson had filed legal papers at Los Angeles County Superior Court asking to have the spelling of his surname altered to Jacksun for "artistic reasons."
The request would be granted in February, 2013.
 

Nov 9th:
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1955 - The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers made their first studio recordings cutting four tracks in 22 minutes, at Nashville's Old Tulane Hotel studios.
Family friend Chet Atkins engineered a chance for The Everly Brothers to record for Columbia Records in early 1956.
However, their first and only single for the label, 'Keep A' Lovin' Me', was a flop, and they were quickly dropped from Columbia.

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1958 - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog', exceeded three million copies sold in the USA, becoming only the third single to do so.
  • Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' &
  • 'Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer' by Gene Autry
being the other two.

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1959 - Sam Cooke,
Considered one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the "King of Soul" for his distinctive vocals, pioneering contributions to the genre, and significance in popular music.
He is guaranteed $100,000 by RCA if he chooses to leave his current home, Keen Records.

During his eight-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Pop Singles chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top Ten of Billboard's Black Singles chart.

 
Nov 9th:
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1967 - Rolling Stone Magazine
The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published in San Francisco. It featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover,
dressed in army fatigues while acting in his recent film, How I Won the War and the first issue had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint.



The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources: the Muddy Waters song, the first rock ‘n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones along with items about David Crosby, The Who and Country Joe McDonald (of Country Joe & the Fish).

In its early years of publication, Rolling Stone is known primarily for its reporting on music and related issues, especially politics.

In the debut issue, founder Jann Wenner writes in the Editor's Note that Rolling Stone is intended to be a combination of a newspaper and a magazine. Indeed, the first three editions resemble a newspaper more than the glossy magazine it eventually becomes.

The magazine's name is at least partly inspired by the Bob Dylan hit "Like a Rolling Stone" - earlier in the year, co-founder Ralph Gleason published an essay titled "Like A Rolling Stone" in The American Scholar. Jann Wenner cites other influences in the introduction, explaining: "Muddy Waters used the name for a song he wrote.
The Rolling Stones took their name from Muddy's song. 'Like a Rolling Stone' was the title of Bob Dylan's first rock and roll record."

John Lennon is the first cover subject.
- The still shot from the movie set of How I Won the War shows the Beatle in his familiar round glasses and a mesh-covered helmet, setting the tone for the mix of music and politics that become the magazine's hallmark.
- - The first issue costs 35 cents and becomes a collector's item, selling for upwards of $400 decades later.

Among the stories in this first issue are an investigative report on how the proceeds from the Monterey Pop Festival were spent, as well as reviews of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant and Traffic's Hole in My Shoe.

The magazine becomes so popular that by 1972 making the cover is seen as the pinnacle of success, which Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show explain in their 1972 hit The Cover of "Rolling Stone
"We take all kinds of pillsTo give us all kind of thrillsBut the thrill we've never knownIs the thrill that'll getchaWhen you get your pictureOn the cover of the Rolling Stone


When the editors realize they are aging out of their demographic, they bring in young writers to keep it fresh.

One of these is the journalism prodigy Cameron Crowe, who begins writing for the magazine in 1973 at age 16, covering the likes of Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers and Jackson Browne.
  • These experiences form the basis for his 2000 film Almost Famous
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Nov 10th:
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1975

- David Bowie
David Bowie was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Space Oddity' the track was first released in 1969 to tie in with the Apollo 11 moon landing. Rick Wakeman (former keyboard player with Yes) provided synthesizer backing.
Bowie would later revisit his Major Tom character in the songs 'Ashes to Ashes', 'Hallo Spaceboy' and 'Blackstar'.
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- Patti Smith
Patti Smith released her debut studio album Horses.
Produced by John Cale, Horses has since been viewed by critics as one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of the American punk rock movement, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Horses has also been cited as a key influence on a number of acts, including Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, R.E.M. and PJ Harvey.
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- Queen:
Queen shoot the video for "Bohemian Rhapsody," which according to director Bruce Gowers, takes about four hours.
It airs repeatedly on the British show Top Of The Pops and helps the song become one of the most popular in UK history.

 
Nov 10th:
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2002
... guest star on The Simpsons in an episode where they run a rock and roll fantasy camp.
The first rule of the camp: There are no rules! Second rule: No outside food.

Despite his disrespectful antics (he heckles Tom Petty during a songwriting lesson), Homer gets an all-access pass after the camp to a Rolling Stones concert, where he makes quite a scene before getting chased off the stage with a flaming devil head.
The episode is titled How I Spent My Strummer Vacation, a reference to Joe Strummer of The Clash.
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2007
For the first time, country(ish) artists occupy the top three spots on the US albums chart:

1) Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride
2) Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
3) Gary Allan - Living Hard
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2013
At the MTV Europe Awards, Miley Cyrus smokes a joint while accepting her Best Video award for "Wrecking Ball."

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The ceremony is held in Amsterdam, so it's legal.


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Nov 11th:
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1944
Frank Sinatra, boy singer for the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey big bands, signs with Columbia as a solo recording artist.

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1954 - Bill Haley
Bill Haley scored his first US Top ten single with 'Shake Rattle And Roll'. He had dropped his cowboy image about a year and a half earlier, while renaming The Saddlemen to Bill Haley and His Comets.
- The song became the theme song for the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League. ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ was originally made popular by Big Joe Turner.



1957
Shirley Bassey is held hostage at gunpoint in a London hotel by a deranged man who enters as she is approving dresses for her tour.
An early boyfriend held her hostage at gunpoint in a London hotel room before shooting himself in the foot as he was arrested.
The incident appeared to take no more out of Bassey than swatting a fly.
After a three-hour standoff with police, he releases the singer.
 
Nov 11th:
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1971
Alice Cooper releases "I'm Eighteen," the shock rocker's first hit.
The song connects with young people in America who could be drafted to fight in Vietnam but are too young to drink or vote.

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1999
A teenaged Britney Spears wins
... at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Dublin.

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Nov 12th:
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1956 - Johnnie Ray
Johnnie Ray was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Just Walking In The Rain.'
It stayed at No.1 for seven weeks making it this years Christmas No.1. Written in 1952 by Johnny Bragg and Robert Riley, two prisoners at Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, after a comment made by Bragg as the pair crossed the courtyard while it was raining.



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1965

- Marc Bolan
After changing his name from Toby Tyler to Marc Bolan, the future T. Rex star performed his first single 'The Wizard' on the UK TV show Ready Steady Go!


- Velvet Underground
Velvet Underground made their live debut when the played at Summit High School, New Jersey, the band were paid $75 for the gig.

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NOV 12th
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1966 -
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd appeared at the Corn Exchange, Bedford, England.

The set list for these early Floyd shows included: 'Let's Roll Another One', 'Gimme A Break', 'Interstellar Overdrive', 'Astronomy Domine' and 'Stoned Alone'. 'Stoned Alone' was also known as 'I Get Stoned', and was possibly the first song Syd Barrett wrote for Pink Floyd.

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1968 -
Jimi Hendrix's third album, Electric Ladyland, shows the famous guitarist on the cover along with a collection of naked women.

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  • You can only get it in England - though UK book and record chain W.H. Smiths refused to display it
The album was then made available as two albums with changed artwork after the complaints.
the American version is released with an alternate cover.

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NOV 12th
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1973
- In Leeds, England, Queen begin their first tour.
They're the opening act for Mott the Hoople.
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1977
The Sex Pistols went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut LP Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols. the punk group's only No.1 album.
The album was met by a hail of controversy upon its release.
The first problems involved the allegedly 'obscene' name of the album, resulting in the prosecution of the manager of the Nottingham Virgin record shop for having displayed it in a window.
More outrage was sparked by the lyrics of the songs 'God Save the Queen' and 'Anarchy in the UK.'
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1987
Sly Stone arrives one hour late for a major comeback concert in Santa Monica, California, only to be arrested at the gig for failure to pay child support.
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1988
U2 started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their sixth studio album 'Rattle And Hum' which went on to sell over 14 million copies.
 
Nov 12th:
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1999
Glam legend Gary Glitter is acquitted in England's Bristol Crown Court of sexual assault on a minor stemming from an incident with a fan in the '80s; however, that same day, Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) is sentenced to four months in jail for four counts of possessing child pornography found in 1997.
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2000
LeAnn Rimes sued Curb Records to void a contract signed by her parents on her behalf in 1995. In the suit the 18 year-old singer asked Curb to relinquish its rights and publishing interests in Rimes' past work, as well as future profits.
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2004
The funeral of longtime (and highly influential) British DJ John Peel is held in Suffolk, England, with attendees including ...
- and members of
Peel died of a heart attack on October 25.
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2021
Britney Spears' conservatorship, in place since 2008, finally comes to an end when a judge terminates it. "Best day ever... praise the Lord," she posts on social media.
 
Nov 13th:
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1976
Rod Stewart's "Tonight's The Night," with some French cooing by his girlfriend Britt Ekland, hits #1 in America for the first of eight weeks.
Stewart is in ladies' man mode as he sings:Don't say a word my virgin childJust let your inhibitions run wild

Ekland, a Swedish actress who is Stewart's live-in girlfriend, is the object of his affection, but she's certainly not a "virgin child" - she was previously married to the actor Peter Sellers

She appears in the video, where Stewart works his mojo, serenading her with his guitar in front of a glowing fire.
Unable to resist his charms, she follows him upstairs, where the secret unfolds.

The following year, the couple break up after Stewart takes up with another blond actress, Liz Treadwell.
Ekland files a paternity lawsuit, claiming Stewart promised her everlasting love but didn't deliver.
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1990
Patricia Boughton filed a lawsuit against Rod Stewart claiming that a football he kicked into the crowd during a concert at Pine Knob Music Theatre had ruptured a tendon in her middle finger.

And as a result the injury had made sex between her and her husband difficult.

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2019
Rod Stewart was featured on the cover of Britain’s Railway Modeller magazine.

The singer had put the finishing touches to a 25-year project building a railway city, which was modelled on both New York and Chicago around 1945.
The model railway which spans 1,500 square feet was housed in the attic of his Los Angeles home.

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Nov 14th:
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1961
Before a show in Indianapolis, Ray Charles is arrested when marijuana and heroin are found in his hotel room.
A closer search found a cold cream jar filled with marijuana they knew would be there.
They charged Ray with a violation of the 1935 Indiana Narcotics act and for being a “common addict,” a charge designed more to humiliate Ray than to punish him.
Charges are dropped on a technicality, but his drug problems were far from over.
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1964
At the start of her first UK tour, Dusty Springfield causes a furor when she tells a local magazine: "I wish I'd been born colored.
When it comes to singing and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me. --- Then I see how some of them are treated and I thank God I'm white."


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1967 - Jimi Hendrix
  • Pink Floyd were added to a 16-date UK tour with Jimi Hendrix,
  • The Move,
  • The Nice,
  • Amen Corner,
  • The Outer Limits and
  • The Eire Apparent.
It kicked off at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The headlining Hendrix was allotted exactly 40 minutes; The Move, who preceded him onstage, had just half an hour, and Pink Floyd, who appeared between after The Outer Limits, were allowed between 15 and 20 minutes per show.
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Nov 14th:
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1991
Michael Jackson's "Black Or White" music video, directed by John Landis, debuts simultaneously on MTV, BET and Fox - a strategic move that marks his ascension to the pop throne.
The 11-minute clip, however, lands Jackson in hot water with viewers who complain about his excessive crotch-grabbing and gratuitous displays of violence.

A panther slinks off to an abandoned street and morphs into Jackson, who launches into a complex choreography sans music.
He enthusiastically rubs his crotch, zips up his zipper, and goes on a screaming rampage, busting windows and demolishing a nearby car. Appalled critics blast Jackson in the press in the following days."
It was not so much what Michael was doing but the juxtaposition of simulated masturbation with the violence," Landis explains of the controversial ending.

"And of course, the fact that it was Michael."Jackson agrees to excise the last four minutes of the clip, stating, "It upsets me to think that 'Black or White' could influence any child or adult to destructive behavior, either sexual or violent. I've always tried to be a good role model and therefore have made these changes to avoid any possibility of adversely affecting any individual's behavior. I deeply regret any pain or hurt that the final segment of 'Black or White' has caused children, their parents or any other viewers."

But the controversy only makes the clip more popular, and it becomes the most requested and most played video on MTV (and the single is a #1 hit). The King of Pop adjusts his crown and ascends the throne.



1996 - Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson married Debbie Rowe at the Sheraton on the Park Hotel in Sydney, Australia.
The couple had met when he was diagnosed with vitiligo in the mid-1980s, and she was working as his dermatologist's assistant.

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The night before the wedding, Jackson had called Presley, who gave him and Rowe her blessing. In front of 15 friends, the pair exchanged vows at the hotel.

The couple divorced on October 8, 1999, with Rowe giving full custody rights of the children to Jackson with Rowe receiving an $8-million settlement.
 
Nov 15th:
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1969
Hamburg, Germany's famous rock and roll venue, the Star Club, announces it will permanently close its doors at the end of the month.
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1969 - Carpenters
The Carpenters released their debut album, Offering, (later re-named as Ticket To Ride) on A&M Records.
It was a commercial failure and produced only one minor hit single, a ballad version of The Beatles song 'Ticket to Ride'.

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Nov 15th:
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1971
In this week's Disc and Music Echo's Progressive album chart:
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1986
Pop history was made when the Top 5 UK singles were all by female vocalists;
  • Corinne Drewery from Swing Out Sister,
  • Mel and Kim,
  • Susannah Hoffs from The Bangles,
  • Kim Wilde and
  • Terri Nunn from Berlin
    ... who were at No.1 with 'Take My Breath Away.'
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1992
The "Rock Of Ages" episode of Married With Children features guest stars
Along with Al Bundy (who plays the sandwich), they form Old Aid and perform "We Are The Old."
Sample lyrics: We are the old We've got arthritis Our gums are weak From gingivitis
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2000
Winners at The MTV Europe Awards included
  • All Saints for best pop act,
  • Ricky Martin won best male artist,
  • Madonna won best female artist,
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers won best rock band,
  • Blink 182 won best new act &
  • Jennifer Lopez won best R&B act.
 
Nov 16th
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1969 - Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin was arrested during a gig in Tampa, Florida, after badmouthing a policeman and using vulgar and indecent language.


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Joplin became upset after police moved into the hall forcing fans to move back to their seats.
When he uses a bullhorn to yell at audience members who have left their seats. "Don't F--k with those people!," she screams.
  • "What are you so uptight about?
  • Did you buy a $5 ticket?"
The cop tells Joplin that she needs to tell the crowd to remain seated, and she replies,
  • "I'm not telling them s--t."
After more stage ranting where Joplin confronts a detective calling him 'a son of a bitch' and threatens to kick his face in, she is arrested after the show, charged with using "vulgar and indecent language."

After posting a $504 bail, the charges are later dropped and she pays a $200 fine.
 
Nov 16th
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1960
Patsy Cline recorded 'I Fall to Pieces' which the following year became Cline's first No.1 hit on the Country charts, and her second hit single to cross over onto the Pop charts. It was the first of a string of songs that would be written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard.
The song was ranked at No.7 on CMT's television special of the 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.
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1968
Led Zeppelin played their first ever show in the North of England when they appeared at Manchester College of Science & Technology.
--- Zeppelin were paid £225 for the gig.
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Nov 16th
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1971
Frank Zappa appeared on this week's UK TV music show the 'Old Grey Whistle Test', playing live and showing clips from his '200 Motels' film.
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1973
David Bowie is the host of a special edition of the NBC show Midnight Special.
His show is called 1980 Floor Show, and features Bowie doing a duet of "I Got You Babe" with Marianne Faithfull, who wears a nun's habit with an open back.

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1975
The variety show Donny & Marie, starring Donny and Marie Osmond, debuts on ABC.

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Nov 16th:
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2002
Texan multi-billionaire David Bonderman hired The Rolling Stones to play at his 60th birthday party held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
  • The bands fee was £4.4m

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2005
Pink Floyd,
The Kinks and
Eurythmics
.... are among the honorees inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.

The second annual show, which takes place in a ceremony at London's Alexandra Palace, features some momentous reunions, including the gathering of the original Kinks and a performance by the classic line-up of Black Sabbath, featuring Ozzy Osbourne.
 
Nov 17th:
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1957 - Harry Belafonte
  • Harry Belafonte was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mary's Boy Child,'
It was the first single to sell over 1 million copies in the UK.
It stayed at No.1 for seven weeks making it this years Christmas No.1. The first Christmas song to hit No.1 in two different versions - the other was Boney M's version in 1978.
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1970
Elton John plays live in a recording studio, accompanied by just two musicians: Dee Murray on bass and Nigel Olsson on drums.
Broadcast on WABC-FM (which would later become WPLJ), it's the first live FM broadcast from a music studio.
The recording is later released as 17-11-70, Elton's first live album.

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Nov 17th:
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2000
Elton John told a London High Court that his former lover and manager John Reid betrayed him over touring costs.
The singer said Reid, had been "caught with his hands in the till".

Elton was suing Andrew Haydon, former managing director of John Reid Enterprises, his management company alleging Haydon was negligent in allowing JREL to charge him "several millions" in overseas tour expenses.


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2006
Icelandic rock act the Sugarcubes take the stage in Reykjavik for the first time in 14 years.

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The group, whose most famous alumnus is Björk, reassembles to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its debut single, "Birthday."

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