21 NOVEMBER
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1992 Adam Sandler sings "The Thanksgiving Song" on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.More
1991 An animated Aerosmith perform "Walk This Way" on the "Flaming Moe's" episode of The Simpsons. The band is one of the first musical guests on the show.
1987 "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol replaces "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany at #1 in the US. Both songs were originally recorded in the '60s by Tommy James & the Shondells.More
1981 The Queen/David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure" goes to #1 in the UK, Queen's first chart-topper there since "Bohemian Rhapsody."
1981 "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John hits #1 in the US. The sweaty aerobics anthem stays at the top spot for 10 weeks, making it the biggest hit of 1981.More
21 NOVEMBER
In Music History
2017 David Cassidy dies at age 67 after suffering liver and kidney failure. The Partridge Family star made headlines earlier in the year when he was diagnosed with dementia.
2014 David Guetta releases Listen, his sixth studio album.
2008 Bruce Springsteen's title track from his forthcoming Working On A Dream album hits radio.
2006 Black Eyed Peas take home three awards at the 2006 American Music Awards, held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium and broadcast live on ABC. The Peas, which accept the awards via satellite from Costa Rica, are named favorite group in the soul/R&B and rap/hip-hop categories, and pick up honors for favorite album (Monkey Business) in the rap/hip-hop genre.
2003 The acoustic guitar on which George Harrison learned how to play is sold at a London auction for 276,000 pounds. The original price of the guitar: three and one-half pounds.
2003 Pop singer-songwriter Teddy Randazzo, who penned hits for Little Anthony & the Imperials, dies at age 68.
2002 Hadda Brooks, known for the '40s R&B hit "Out of the Blue," dies following open-heart surgery at age 86.
2001 Jonathan King is sentenced to seven years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on teenage boys between 1982 and 1987.
1999 Singer/actor Alvin Cash (of The Crawlers) dies of ulcer complications at age 60.
1997 Coolio and seven members of his band 40 Thevz are arrested and charged with theft and assault in a boutique in the town of Boblingen, Germany. The eight are charged with assaulting a female clerk in a clothing store and stealing clothing worth $2,000.
1995 Bruce Springsteen releases The Ghost Of Tom Joad.
1995 The Beatles release Anthology I (including the previously unreleased track "Free As A Bird," and sell 450,000 copies the first day).
1995 Matthew Ashman (Bow Wow Wow guitarist) dies of complications from diabetes at age 35.
1995 Peter Grant (manager for The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, and Bad Company) dies of a heart attack at age 60.
1995 DC Talk release Jesus Freak, an album that breaks new ground in contemporary Christian music by blending alternative rock and hip-hop. It sells over 2 million copies and influences artists like Lecrae who keep pushing the boundaries.
Black & Blue Debuts At #1
2000Backstreet Boys release their fourth album, Black & Blue. Catering to the screaming teenage girl demographic, they promote it with an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live. The album is one of biggest debuts in history, with initial shipments of about 6 million.
Black & Blue is the hotly anticipated follow-up to their smash album Millennium that introduced their signature hit, "I Want It That Way." Dipping into notes of hip-hop and R&B, the latest collection of crooning make-up and break-up songs debuts at #1 in America and peppers the pop chart with three new singles. "Shape Of My Heart," yet another BSB ballad written and produced by Swedish pop music maven Max Martin, is the album's star single, notching the #9 slot on the Hot 100. It also earns a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The music video is even more successful on TRL, where it dominates the clip countdown for 61 days. The harmonizing quintet is at the forefront of the pop music scene in America, where just a few years earlier they couldn't even get on the radio. The Boys started their reign in Europe with a debut album crafted by Max Martin but didn't break into the US market until "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" in 1997 – the same year the Spice Girls invaded the country with their British-flavored brand of girl power and infected teen girls with dance-pop fever. Black & Blue is an accurate description of the band members, who are overwhelmed with their superstar status around the globe. In particular, AJ McLean spirals further into alcohol abuse and depression, leading his mates to stage an intervention at the start of their promotional tour. McLean hits rehab, but the band doesn't release another album of new material for five years: Never Gone.
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