This day in 'Musical' history

Nov 18th
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1956 - Fats Domino
Fats Domino appeared on the US TV Ed Sullivan Show performing 'Blueberry Hill.'
Before the song became a rock and roll standard it had been recorded by various artists including Louis Armstrong, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Gene Autry and Jimmy Dorsey.
The version by Fats Domino was ranked No.82 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.


1964
The ABC show Shindig!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shindig!

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1970 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin III was at No.1 on the UK & US album charts. The original cover and interior gatefold art consisted of a surreal collection of random images.
Behind the front cover was a rotatable laminated card disc, covered with more images, including photos of the band members, which showed through holes in the cover.
The distinctive cover was based on a suggestion of Jimmy Page's that it should resemble an old-fashioned gardening seed chart.
Designed by Richard Drew aka Zacron, the sleeve photographs were taken by fellow Leeds Polytechnic lecturer Martin Salisbury.
 

Nov 18th:
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1970
After 13 years of marriage, Jerry Lee Lewis divorces Myra Gale Brown, the daughter of his bass-player cousin who was just 13 when they wed. She later claims that they spent just three nights together during their marriage. Lewis takes up abstinence and sobriety, but abandons that lifestyle after a few months.
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1972 - Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Catch Bull At Four'.
The title was taken from one of the Ten Bulls of Zen a series of short poems and accompanying pictures that are intended to illustrate the stages of a Buddhist practitioner's progression towards enlightenment.
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1974 - Genesis
Genesis released the double concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway their sixth studio album and the last album by the group to feature the involvement of lead singer Peter Gabriel.

 
Nov 18th
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1975
Bruce Springsteen begins his first UK tour at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, where he learns that his record company has gone overboard with the hype, distributing posters that say: "At last London is ready for Bruce Springsteen."

His his live debut has a set list which includes:
  • Thunder Road,
  • 10th Avenue Freeze-out,
  • Born To Run
  • The 'E' Street Shuffle,
  • Jungleland,
  • 4th of July, Asbury Park,
  • Detroit Medley,
  • For You and
  • Quarter To Three.
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1978 - Billy Joel
Billy Joel went to No.1 on the US album chart with his sixth studio album, '52nd Street'. His first US No.1 album was also the first commercial album to be released on compact disc (by Sony Music Entertainment) and won Joel the 1979 Grammy for Album of the Year.
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1979
Chuck Berry is released from Lompoc Prison in California after serving a four-month sentence for tax evasion.
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1983 - R.E.M.
R.E.M. made their first appearance outside the US when they appeared on Channel 4 UK TV show The Tube.
The following night they made their live UK debut when the played at Dingwalls, London.
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Nov 18th
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1993
Nirvana records an MTV Unplugged concert in New York. The show is shot in one take - imperfections and all - and is aired one month later.
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Nirvana's Unplugged performance stands in stark contrast to the band's usual stage show, but the energy is no less palpable.
Backed by guitarist Pat Smear and cellist Lori Goldston, the band delivers haunting renditions of some of their more plaintive songs, "Something in the Way" and "All Apologies," and Kurt Cobain's solo performance of "Pennyroyal Tea" is a sober, stirring confessional.

The concert includes covers of songs by David Bowie ("The Man Who Sold The World") and The Vaselines ("Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam"), and Cris and Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets join the band on stage as Cobain sings three of their songs.

The performance is capped by a blistering cover of Leadbelly's classic "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance airs on December 16, less than four months before Cobain is found dead in his Seattle home, victim of an apparent suicide.


On November 1, 1994, nearly a year after the original MTV performance, the album MTV Unplugged in New York is finally released.
  • It debuts at #1 on the US Albums chart.
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1994
The Rolling Stones become the first major act to stream a live concert on the Internet, webcasting 20 minutes of their show at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
It's really for publicity to promote their upcoming pay-per-view concert, as very few computers can receive the webcast.
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1997
In Bristol, England, Gary Glitter is detained and questioned by police after a computer store repairing the glam star's computer finds it loaded with child pornography.
after a computer he had taken in for repair was found to contain thousands of indecent images of children. The arrest was a major turning point in his life, marking the beginning of his legal troubles, and the end of his career.

Details of the 1997 Bristol arrest
  • Location: Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, took his home computer to a PC World in Bristol for repair.
  • Discovery: Technicians repairing the device found the illegal material and notified the police.
  • Initial release: After being questioned, he was released on bail while police conducted further investigations.
  • Follow-up investigation: Police subsequently searched his London flat and his country home in Wedmore, Somerset, where they seized more indecent photographs and videos of children.
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Nov 18th:
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2001
Britney Spears scored her second US No.1 album with 'Britney.'
  • The album's success made her the first female artist in music history to have her first three studio albums to debut at the No.1 spot.
This record however would later be broken by Spears herself with her 4th studio album In the Zone which charted in the same position.
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2005
A Belgian songwriter won a plagiarism case against Madonna over her 1998 hit single ‘Frozen.’
Salvatore Acquaviva claimed that the song copied one of his recordings, the judge agreed that Madonna's single used four bars of his song ‘Ma Vie Fout L'camp’, which roughly translates as ‘My Life's Getting Nowhere.’
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2007
22-year-old X Factor winner Leona Lewis set a British record for the fastest-selling debut album with Spirit.

The singer sold more than 375,000 copies in seven days, 12,000 more than the Arctic Monkeys' 2006 release Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
Oasis still had the overall record for the fastest selling British album, selling 813,000 copies in 1997.
 
Nov 19th:
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1954
While driving from Vegas to Los Angeles, Sammy Davis, Jr. crashes into another car on Route 66 in San Bernardino, California, and three days later, permanently loses use of his left eye.
While in the hospital, friend Eddie Cantor tells Davis about the twin struggles of the Jewish and African-Americans, leading Davis to convert to Judaism. (The accident, paradoxically, increased his popularity.)
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1964 - The Supremes
The Supremes became the first all girl group to have a UK No.1 single when 'Baby Love' went to the top of the charts.
Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, it was also the second of five Supremes songs in a row to go to No.1 in the United States.
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1965
At the Glad Rags Ball in London,
The Kinks, The Who, Georgie Fame & The Blue Fames, The Hollies, Wilson Pickett and The Golden Apples Of The Sun all appear at the Glad Rag Ball, Empire Pool, London.
Tickets 30 shillings, ($4.20).
The Who's lead singer, Roger Daltrey, storms off stage in the middle of a set plagued with PA problems.
Rumours of a Who breakup spread quickly throughout London with most of them naming Boz Burrell (of King Crimson and Bad Company) as Daltrey's possible replacement.
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1968
Onstage with The Supremes at the Royal Command Variety Performance in London, Diana Ross interrupts the show with a plea for greater interracial understanding.
She receives a two-minute ovation from the audience, which includes members of the royal family.
Queen Elizabeth II herself stands after Ross' moving performance of West Side Story's "Somewhere."
 
Nov 19th:
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1979
Frank Zappa's one and only rock opera, Joe's Garage, is released.
The opera mixes styles of blues, jazz, doo-wop, lounge, orchestral, rock, pop and reggae. It draws controversy for profane lyrics but is hailed as a cultural milestone and landmark album.
The work also looks forward to Zappa's later crusade against the PMRC with its themes of government censorship, and introduces a few memes into the Zappa lexicon, including "The Central Scrutinizer," "a little green rosetta," and of course, the term "roto-plooker."

Joe's Garage - Wikipedia

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1983 - Tom Evans

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English musician and songwriter Tom Evans from Badfinger, took his own life after a bitter argument with Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland about the royalties for 'Without You'.
(Evans co-wrote 'Without You' a hit for both Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey).
  • Family members said the singer, songwriter was never able to get over his former bandmate's Pete Ham's suicide.
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1992
Linda Ronstadt appears on the famous "Mr. Plow" episode of The Simpsons, where she appears in a commercial for Homer's rival, Plow King (Barney Gumble)


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Nov 19th:
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2002
The game show Weakest Link welcomes a diverse group of "Music Makers" to compete on tonight's episode, including
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2002 - Michael Jackson
Safety experts blasted Michael Jackson after dangling his baby from a third-floor hotel balcony.
Jacko was in Berlin for an awards ceremony and was showing his nine-month old baby to his fans outside the hotel.

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Nov 20th:
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1955 - Bill Haley
The song that changed popular music history 'Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley & His Comets went to No.1 on the UK singles chart.
The song was used under the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle.
The song entered the charts a further six times until 1974.
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1955
After agreeing to perform Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit "Sixteen Tons" on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show, Bo Diddley instead plays the song he was actually there to promote, his own hit "Bo Diddley."
- A furious Sullivan blackballs Bo from ever appearing on the show again.
-- The singer has claimed he was never paid for the performance.

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1955
In the music equivalent to the Babe Ruth trade, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips sells Elvis Presley's contract to RCA for $35,000.
It wasn't all bad for Phillips: Presley had just one year left on his contract, and Phillips invested the money in a local hotel chain called the Holiday Inn, which made him a bigger fortune than anything he did in music.
 
Nov 20th:
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1959
Alan Freed, who is an influential DJ on the radio station WABC and host of the TV show Alan Freed's Big Beat Party, is fired from both outlets when he refuses to sign a statement saying he took payola, which was the practice of record companies paying for airplay.
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1961
Billboard reports on the stunning popularity of the "Twist" craze:
Three separate films, starring Chubby Checker, Joey Dee and the Starlighters, and Dion, are scheduled for production, and New York television station WOR is airing hourly twist lessons of between one and five minutes, also featuring Checker.

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1965 - The Supremes
The Supremes had their sixth US No.1 single with the Motown production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland's, 'I Hear A Symphony'.
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1966 - The Supremes
The Supremes were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'You Keep Me Hanging On', the group's seventh US No.1 spent two weeks at the top of the charts was also a No.8 hit in the UK.
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1970
The Kinks' Ray Davies flies to London to re-record a section of the lead vocals for the group's latest single, "Apeman."
  • Radio stations are objecting to the line "The air pollution is foggin' up my eyes," claiming "foggin'" sounds too much like another f-word.
 
Nov 20th:
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1992
L7 lead singer Donita Sparks takes off her knickers during the band's live performance of "Pretend We're Dead" on the British TV show The Word.



The hard-rocking, unpredictable group is known for such antics: Sparks threw a tampon into the crowd a few months earlier at the Reading Festival.
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1998
A three-day World Conference on Music and Censorship begins in Copenhagen with aims to establish a support organization for musicians, similar to writers' free speech body PEN.
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2007
The debut album from Amy Winehouse, Frank, is finally released in the US eight months after her second album, and three years after its British release.
Although critically acclaimed and massively influential in her native UK, it fails to set the American charts on fire, reaching its peak of #33 only after the singer's untimely death in 2011.
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2016
Ariana Grande wins Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards.
Justin Bieber is also a big winner, taking home four trophies.
Green Day takes a swipe at Donald Trump, who was elected president two weeks earlier, in their performance of "Bang Bang," going into a chant of "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA."
 
On November 20, 1971, the Don McLean song "American Pie" was released as a double A-side single, marking its initial public debut. The song's release in November 1971 was pivotal for its career, leading to international superstardom. It was the number one hit song on the Billboard chart for 1972.
 
Nov 21st:
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1980
The morning after throwing a farewell party for his band the Eagles at his Los Angeles home, Don Henley is arrested after calling 911 to get treatment for a 16-year-old prostitute who was apparently having a seizure.

The party was a gathering for crew members and associates of the Eagles, which were breaking up.
As reported in GQ, Henley called a madam who arranged for the girl, who turned out to be 16 (Henley claims he did not know her age and did not have sex with her).

When she showed signs of a seizure the next morning, Henley made the call and medical personnel arrived to find her naked.

Hours later, police arrive to arrest Henley, who pleads no contest to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor that lands him a fine and two years' probation.

Henley claims he took the fall for the roadies who supplied the drugs. "I took complete blame for everything," he tells GQ. "I was stupid; I could have flushed everything down the toilet. I didn't want this girl dying in my house."
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1987
Nina Simone, who hasn't charted in the UK since 1969, hits #5 with the re-release of her 1958 song "My Baby Just Cares For Me" thanks to its use in TV commercials for Chanel No. 5 perfume.

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1995 - Peter Grant
Legendary manager of Led Zeppelin Peter Grant died from a heart attack aged 60.
Known as being one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history, Grant secured 90% of concert gate money and intimidated record store owners who dealt in bootlegs.
The former wrestler, also worked as a film extra and bodyguard.
During the early 60’s Grant worked as a tour manager for...
 
Nov 21st:
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2001
Jonathan King is sentenced to seven years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on teenage boys between 1982 and 1987.

BBC News | UK | Pop mogul jailed for sex abuse
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2003 - Phil Spector
Record producer Phil Spector appeared before a California court and was formally charged with murder.
B-movie actress Lana Clarkson had been found at his mansion in February of this year with a fatal gunshot wound to her face.
Spector pleaded not guilty to her murder during a brief hearing in Alhambra, near Los Angeles and was released on $1m bail.
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2009 - Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty was arrested on suspicion of possessing a controlled drug, moments after escaping a prison sentence at a court-hearing.
The Babyshambles singer allegedly dropped a wrap of ‘little blue crystals’ when he was being frisked by security as he entered the court.
 

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