11 NOVEMBER
In Music History
1979 Film score composer and conductor Dimitri Tiomkin - known for western scores like Duel in the Sun, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and The Alamo - dies in London, England, at age 85.
1978 Awolnation lead singer Aaron Bruno is born outside of Los Angeles.
1978 Donna Summer's disco version of "MacArthur Park," a #2 hit for Richard Harris in 1968, goes to #1 in America.
1977 Wings release "Mull Of Kintyre."
1976 Linda Ronstadt makes her UK live debut, performing at the Odeon in Hammersmith, London.
1974 Stephen Garrett, a songwriter/producer known as Static Major, is born in Louisville, Kentucky. His hits include "Lollipop" by Lil Wayne and "Are You That Somebody?" by Aaliyah.
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.
1970 Gene Chandler receives a gold record for "Duke Of Earl."
1970 Elvis Presley's concert film That's The Way It Is opens to generally favorable reviews.
1969 En route to a to a Rolling Stones concert, Jim Morrison of The Doors is arrested by the FBI for drunk and disorderly behavior and interfering with the flight of an aircraft in Phoenix, Arizona, after a flight attendant on his trip from Los Angeles accuses him of attacking and sexually harassing her. Morrison and his flight companion, American actor Tom Baker, spend the night in the local jail but are released the next day on $2,500 bail. The charges are later dropped.
1967 Van Morrison makes his only appearance on American Bandstand, lip-synching his big hit "Brown Eyed Girl."
1965 The Beatles pull an all-nigher at Abbey Road Studios to complete work on their Rubber Soul album. They finish up the songs "You Won't See Me," "Girl," "Wait," and "I'm Looking Through You."
1964 Tom Jones records "It's Not Unusual."
1961 Joan Baez plays her first major headlining concert, opening at New York's Town Hall in a sold-out, critically acclaimed show.
1958 Hank Ballard and the Midnighters record "The Twist," which later becomes a huge hit for Chubby Checker.
Michael Jackson Crowns Himself King Of Pop
1991Per Michael Jackson's wishes, one week before his controversial "Black Or White" music video airs, a memo circulates at MTV instructing the network's on-air personnel to refer to Jackson as the King of Pop at least twice a week during the next two weeks.
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2008 Eighteen-year-old Taylor Swift releases her second album, Fearless, which goes on to sell over 10 million copies in America. Standout tracks include "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me."
1994 Christie's auction house in New York City holds their first-ever auction of rock memorabilia, including The Beach Boys' guitars, a stage outfit worn by Jimi Hendrix, and John Lennon's famous Army fatigues.
1986 David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright announce they are working on a new Pink Floyd album despite a lawsuit from original member Roger Waters trying to retire the group. The album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, is issued the following year; soon after, the lawsuit is settled.
1982 Prince begins his 1999 tour with a show in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The opening acts are two groups he put together in Minneapolis: The Time and Vanity 6.
1972 Berry Oakley (bassist for The Allman Brothers Band) dies at age 24 after a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia, just three blocks from the site of Duane Allman's fatal motorcycle crash a year earlier.
1970 Bob Dylan publishes his first novel, a poorly received stream-of-consciousness work called Tarantula.
1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release the album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins with a cover photo of the pair naked. Many record stores stock it in a brown paper wrapper.More
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