November 30

Births

1915: Brownie McGhee (Blues Singer)

1929: Dick Clark (DJ)

1944: Rob Grill (Lead Singer for The Grass Roots)

1945: Roger Glover (Bass for Deep Purple)

1953: Shuggie Otis (Singer / Songwriter)

1955: Billy Idol (William Broad) (Singer in Generation X & Solo)

1957: John Ashton (Guitar for The Psychedelic Furs)

1973: John Moyer (Bass for Disturbed)

1975: Mindy McCready (Country Singer)

1978: Clay Aiken (Singer)

Events

1940: Desi Arnaz marries Lucille Ball.

1954: Nat "King" Cole begins a six-night run at Harlem's Apollo theater.

1959: In a Billboard article, DJ Alan Freed claims that his career has gone "down the drain" due to the recent "payola" scandal.

1963: The Beatles second album 'With The Beatles' became the first million selling album by a group in the UK.

1969: NBC airs Simon and Garfunkel's Songs Of America special, even after sponsor AT&T backs out over the show's plan to show footage of the Bobby Kennedy funeral and the Vietnam war.

1977: David Bowie appears on Bing Crosby's 42nd (and last) Christmas special on CBS. The two sing a medley of "Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace On Earth."

1988: LL Cool J performed the first rap concert held in Africa.

1991: Milli Vanilli singer Rob Pilatus attempted suicide while staying at The Mondrain Hotel, Los Angeles by taking an overdose of sleeping pills and slashing his wrists.

1994: Tupac Shakur was shot five times during a robbery outside a New York City recording studio.

1996: While playing at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis, Tiny Tim had a heart attack and died.

1997: Chumbawamba's Danbert Nobacon was arrested by Italian police for wearing a skirt and was detained in police cells overnight.

2003: A block of East 2nd Street in New York City was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place. It is the block where Joey once lived with band mate Dee Dee Ramone, and is near the music club CBGB, where the Ramones played their first gigs.

2005: Police were investigating claims that Michael Jackson was trafficking drugs to feed his 40 pills-a-day habit. The singer was suspected of flying antidepressants and painkillers from the US to his current home in Bahrain.

November 29

Births

1917: Merle Travis (Country Singer)

1933: John Mayall (Blues Artist)

1940: Chuck Mangione (Jazz Musician)

1940: Denny Doherty (Singer / Songwriter in The Mamas and The Papas)

1942: Felix Cavaliere (Vocals & Keyboards in The Rascals)

1947: Ronnie Montrose (Guitarist)

1951: Barry Goudreau (Guitar for Boston)

1968: Jonathan Knight (New Kids On The Block)

1974: Apl.De.Ap (Allen Pineda Lindo, Jr) (Black Eyed Peas)

1979: The Game (Jayceon Terrell Taylor) (Rapper)

Events

1959: Bobby Darin wins the 1959 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for his song "Mack the Knife," along with the Best New Artist award.

1965: Denver, CO, declares today "Rolling Stones Day."

1966: Elvis hears Tom Jones' version of "Green Green Grass Of Home" on the radio just outside Little Rock, and calls the radio station to hear it several times. Elvis would eventually cover the song.

1968: For his cannabis possession charge, John Lennon is fined $360 in a London court. The judge believes John's explanation that he no longer uses marijuana and had merely forgotten about the stash. Wife Yoko Ono is entirely cleared of charges. Lennon is the first Beatle to be charged with such a crime.

1976: Jerry Lee Lewis shot his bass player, Norman "Butch" Owens, twice in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle. Lewis was charged with shooting a firearm within the city limits.

1979: The original four members of KISS play for the last time together before their first "breakup” until 1996 when they reunited for a makeup tour.

1979: Keith Richards' common-law wife, Anita Pallenburg, is cleared of murder in the shooting death of a male companion found dead in her home in New York state.

1995: Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar married model Kari Karte in San Francisco.

1997: Whitney Houston pulled out of a concert sponsored by the Moonies two hours before she was due on stage after finding out the event was a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie couple's. The religious group said they had no intention of suing providing the singer returned the $1m fee she had received.

2000: Chuck Berry's longtime piano player, Johnnie Johnson, sues Chuck, alledging that he wrote the music for 52 of Berry's classics. The suit was thrown out by a judge who ruled that the statute of limitations had run out on any claims.

2000: U2's Larry Mullen came to the rescue of motorcyclist who had been involved in an accident. Larry was driving home when he saw the motorcyclist who had crashed and stopped to call for help on his phone and then waited for the ambulance to arrive.

2001: George Harrison passes away at age 58 after a long battle with lung cancer while resting at the home of a friend home in Los Angeles. His family's official statement read, in part: "He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God, fearless of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends. He often said, 'Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.'"

2007: Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, a convicted sex offender, was arrested for failing to properly register a new permanent address. The 59-year-old had pleaded guilty in 1993 to charges of attempted capital sexual battery by an adult on a victim younger than 12 and being principal to lewd and lascivious behavior on a child younger than 16. He was sentenced to eight years of probation.

2009: Susan Boyle's album became the best-selling debut in UK chart history when it went to No.1 on the UK chart. The 48 year-old runner-up in ITV's Britain's Got Talent, sold 410,000 copies of ‘I Dreamed a Dream’. Boyle also topped the US charts, setting a first-week sales record for a female debut album with 701,000 copies sold in its first week.

November 28

Births

1929: Berry Gordy, Jr. (Founder of Motown Records)

1943: Randy Newman (Singer / Songwriter)

1949: Paul Shaffer (Dave Letterman Band Leader)

1962: Matt Cameron (Drums for Soundgarden)

1968: Dawn Robinson (Singer for En Vogue)

1979: Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki) (Rapper)

1984: Trey Songz (R&B / Hip-Hop Artist)

Events

1964: Willie Nelson makes his Grand Ole Opry debut.

1968: John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear at the Marylebone Magistrates' Court, London, to answer charges of cannabis resin possession. John pleads guilty and is fined $300.

1974: John Lennon appears onstage with Elton John at Madison Square Garden, honoring a promise he made that he'd appear if their duet, "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night," hit #1. The duo sing their hit as well as the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There." Backstage, wife Yoko Ono meets John, ending John's 18-month separation from her, known as the "Lost Weekend." This was to be John's last appearance on stage, anywhere.

1979: Ringo Starr's home in Los Angeles home burns down.

1987: REM had their first entry in the Top 10 on the US singles chart with ‘The One I Love.’

1990: In Los Angeles, law enforcement officials announced that there was not enough evidence to prosecute Axl Rose for assault on his neighbor. The charge was the Rose had hit her over the head with a wine bottle.

1991: Nirvana recorded a performance for BBC TV music show Top Of The Pops in London. When asked to lip-sync ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ to a pre-recorded tape Kurt Cobain protests by singing in a low-pitched funny voice with the rest of the band not even trying to mime in-time to the track.

1992: HBO airs Neil Diamond's Christmas Special.

1992: Whitney Houston started a record-breaking fourteen-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Will Always Love You', taken from the 'Bodyguard' soundtrack. The song was written by Dolly Parton.

1993: Steppenwolf drummer Jerry Edmonton was killed in a car crash not far from his Santa Barbara, California home, he was 47.

2001: Aretha Franklin sues a tabloid for $50 million after it claimed the singer had a drinking problem.

2006: US actress Pamela Anderson filed for divorce from rapper Kid Rock after just four months of marriage. In a statement on her website the 39-year-old confirmed she had split from Rock.

2007: Kanye West and stuntman Evel Knievel settled a copyright dispute over West's use of the name "Evel Kanyevel" in a music video. The 69-year-old daredevil had claimed his image was tarnished by the video’s "vulgar, sexual nature." The clip for Touch The Sky, showed the rap star cavorting with Pamela Anderson and trying to jump a rocket-powered motorcycle over a canyon.

November 25

Births

1941: Percy Sledge (R&B Singer)

1960: Amy Grant (Pop and Christian Singer)

1967: Rodney Sheppard (Guitar for Sugar Ray)

1971: Christina Applegate (Just because)

Events

1957: Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps make their US television debut, performing "Lotta Loving" and "Dance to the Bop" on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show.

1961: The Everly Brothers join the 8th Battalion of the US Marine Corps Reserve, arriving at California's Camp Pendleton.

1965: London's famed department store, Harrods, opens for the Beatles for two hours after closing time in order to allow the members of the group to do their Christmas shopping.

1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its stage debut in front of a celebrity-filled audience at London's Bag O'Nails club.

1968: CBS-TV airs the Frank Sinatra special Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing, featuring Diahann Carroll and The 5th Dimension.

1968: Cream play their last concert at London's Royal Albert Hall to a fanatic crowd of over 10,000 who chant "God save the Cream" as the group leaves the stage.

1969: As a protest against Britain's military involvement in foreign conflicts, John Lennon returns his MBE (Member of the British Empire) medal, with an attached letter that reads, puckishly, "Your Majesty, I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts. With love, John Lennon of Bag."

1971: Rolling Stone quotes the surviving members of the Doors as saying they intend to continue on as a trio despite the loss of lead singer Jim Morrison.

1972: Hollies lead singer Allan Clarke announces that he's leaving the group. (It doesn't take.)

1974: Singer Nick Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a type of antidepressant at age 26.

1975: Deep in debt, Elvis Presley takes out a $350,000 loan from the National Bank of Commerce in Memphis, TN. His Graceland estate is put up as collateral.

1976: The Band and what seems like several dozen of the music industry's biggest stars perform at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom for what is announced as the group's last performance. The show is filmed and will go on to be released as Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biopic The Last Waltz.

1984: The cream of the British pop world gathered at S.A.R.M. Studios, London to record the historic ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ The single, which was written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, featured Paul Young, Bono, Boy George, Sting and George Michael. It went on to sell over three million copies in the UK, becoming the bestselling record ever, and raised over £8 million ($13.6 million) worldwide.

1985: Bobby Brown announced that he was leaving New Edition for a solo career.

1988: Having successfully completed their stint in an Arizona rehab clinic, Ringo Starr returns to England with his second wife, actress Barbara Bach.

1995: Radiohead singer Thom Yorke blacked out halfway through a show in Munich, Germany, suffering from exhaustion.

1997: The original Zombies lineup -- Rod Argent on organ, Colin Blunstone on vocals, Paul Atkinson on guitar, Chris White on bass, and Hugh Grundy on drums -- reunites onstage for the first time in 30 years at London's Jazz Cafe, performing two songs only: "She's Not There" and "Time Of The Season" to promote their new box set Zombie Heaven.

2000: An unidentified thief burgles Alice Cooper's home in Paradise Valley, CA, stealing $6,000 of his daughter's clothes and electronics as well as four of Alice's gold records.

2003: Glen Campbell was arrested in Phoenix Arizona with a blood alcohol level of .20 after his BMW struck a Toyota Camry. He was charged with 'extreme' drunk driving, hit and run, and assaulting a police officer. A police officer reported that while in custody, Campbell hummed his hit 'Rhinestone Cowboy' repeatedly.

2003: Meat Loaf underwent heart surgery in a London hospital after being diagnosed with a condition that causes an irregular heartbeat. The 52-year-old singer had collapsed on November 17th as he performed at London's Wembley Arena.

2007: Kevin Dubrow, the frontman with metal band Quiet Riot, was found dead in his Las Vegas home at the age of 52 of a cocaine overdose.  It was reported that he had died 6 days before being found.

2008: Country singer Zac Brown has Lasik eye surgery in Atlanta.

November 23

Births

1939: Betty Everett (R&B Singer)

1954: Bruce Hornsby (Pianist & Singer / Songwriter)

1987: Snooki (Nicole Polizzi)

1992: Miley Ray Cyrus (Singer)

Events

1899: The Palais Royal Hotel in San Francisco installs the first coin-operated machine destined to be known as a "jukebox," in this case a crude slot-machine apparatus connected to an actual Edison phonograph. At a nickel a song, it took in one thousand dollars in six months' time.

1950: Hank Williams writes "Cold, Cold Heart".

1956: A sheet metal worker in Toledo, OH is arrested for punching Elvis Presley in a bar after the man discovers Elvis' picture in his wife's wallet. He was fined $19.60 but ended up being jailed because he was unable to pay the fine.

1960: Elvis' fifth film, G.I. Blues, is released in US theaters, just six years to the day before his 22nd, Spinout!

1964: The Rolling Stones are banned from the BBC for, of all things, unprofessionalism, the band having arrived late twice to perform on the radio shows Saturday Club and Top Gear.

1968: Led Zeppelin signs to the Atlantic label after being guided there by Dusty Springfield.

1972: Bob Dylan goes to Durango, CO, to begin work on his role in Sam Peckinpah's next movie, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid.

1974: UK pop-rock band Spooky Tooth call it quits. Though only a cult hit in the US (and virtually unknown at home), their members will all go on to fame: Gary Wright with "Dream Weaver," Mick Jones as the guitarist for Foreigner, Henry McCullough as one of the guitarists for Wings (he does the solo on "My Love"), and Chris Stainton as an Eric Clapton sideman.

1976: Jerry Lee Lewis visits Elvis Presley's Memphis home, Graceland, very early in the morning and is told that Elvis is asleep. He drives off in a huff but returns after sunrise, invited there by The King himself. Unfortunately, one of Elvis' security guards hasn't been told, and when Jerry Lee is refused permission to enter, he allegedly brandishes a gun and claims he's come to kill Presley. Lewis, who later claimed he was making a sarcastic joke, is promptly arrested.

1985: American blues artist Big Joe Turner died of a heart attack aged 75. Wrote 'Shake Rattle and Roll', (a hit for Bill Haley and His Comets) and 'Sweet Sixteen.'

1987: Sly Stone was charged with possession of cocaine in Santa Monica.

1994: Michael Jackson is cleared in a paternity suit after DNA results proved he was NOT the father.

1995: American soul singer and saxophonist Junior Walker died of cancer aged 64.

1996: Trace Adkins makes his debut on the Grand Ole Opry. After singing "Every Light In The House," he drops to one knee, calls out girlfriend Rhonda Forlaw and asks her to marry him. She says yes.

1998: The world's first portable mp3 player goes on sale, despite strenuous objections from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The Diamond Rio PMP300, which cost $200, could play about a dozen songs.

2000: Faith Hill stars in her first TV special, "Faith!," on Thanksgiving on CBS.

2002: Otis Redding's widow and former manager sue Scott Freeman, author of a 2001 biography of the late soul singer that mentioned rumors to the effect that Redding's then-manager caused his plane to crash in 1967, with a little help from the mob, in order to collect on his life insurance.

2005: Dan McTeague a Toronto MP tried to have 50 Cent barred from entering Canada to perform a series of concerts later this year. McTeague had sent a letter to Immigration Minister Joe Volpe claiming that the controversial rapper shouldn't be permitted to cross the border because he promotes gun violence. 

November 22

Births

1946: Aston "Family Man" Barrett (Bass for Bob Marley and the Wailers)

1947: Rod Price (Guitar for Foghat)

1950: "Miami" Steve "Little Steven" Van Zandt (Guitar for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)

1950: Tina Weymouth (Bass for The Talking Heads & The Tom Tom Club)

1978: Karen O (Singer for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Events

1946: Gene Autry rides in the Santa Claus Lane parade in Hollywood, as do Roy Rogers, Jack Benny and Red Skelton. When Autry hears children shouting, "Here comes Santa Claus," he's inspired to write "Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)".

1957: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel make their first appearance on ABC-TV's dance show American Bandstand -- in their earlier incarnation as Tom and Jerry, playing their minor hit "Hey Little Schoolgirl."

1965: Bob Dylan marries his first wife, Sara Lowndes, in Nassau County, NY; as she is already pregnant with his first child, the marriage is kept a secret for the next two months. The couple would divorce in 1977.

1968: In Ireland, singer Marianne Faithfull, heavily addicted to cocaine, miscarries what was to be her second child, fathered by boyfriend Mick Jagger.

1976: Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested for drunk driving in Memphis after driving his Rolls Royce into a ditch.

1981: During Muddy Waters' gig at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago, the legendary bluesman is joined onstage by the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood, currently touring through the Midwest.

1987: Jesus and Mary Chain singer Jim Reid was arrested in Canada after being accused of assaulting members of the audience with his microphone stand, he was released on $2,000 bail.

1990: The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman announces the dissolution of his year-and-a-half-long marriage to model Mandy Smith. It was the third marriage for Wyman and the first for Smith, who was 34 years his junior. (The duo had begun dating when she was 13!) In an even more stunning development, Wyman's 30-year-old son soon married Mandy's mother, who was 16 years older than him, which, if Bill had remained married, would have made him his own grandfather.

1991: Alice Cooper came to the rescue of two fans; Patrick and Dee Ann Kelly, whose California home was about to be re-possessed. Patrick had painted Coopers face on the house to help sell the property. Mr Cooper signed autographs to help raise money for the couple.

1997: INXS singer Michael Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney. He was 37. Hutchence body was found at 11.50am naked behind the door to his room. He had apparently hanged himself with his own belt and the buckle broke away and his body was found kneeling on the floor and facing the door. It had been suggested that his death resulted from an act of auto eroticism, no forensic or other evidence to substantiate that suggestion was found.

2002: Ex-Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger announce they will reform the band for the first time in 27 years, replacing original drummer John Densmore (suffering from hearing loss) with the Police's Stuart Copeland and replacing original frontman Jim Morrison with soundalike Ian Astbury of the Cult.

2003: Wynonna Judd is married for the second time, to her long-time bodyguard, D.R. Roach, in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, with Naomi and Ashley Judd attending.

2004: Ozzy Osbourne struggled with a burglar who escaped with jewelry worth about $4M from his Buckinghamshire mansion. Osbourne told reporters that he had the masked raider in a headlock as he tried to stop him. The burglar broke free and jumped 30 ft from a first floor window.

2005: Sixteen pages of poetry written by University of Minnesota student Robert Zimmerman -- using his new name, Bob Dylan, for the first time -- are auctioned off for $78,000 in New York.

2006: After decades of living in California, Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood is finally naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

2005: A gig by former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown was abandoned after 20 minutes because the floor at the venue began to sag. 2,000 people were told to leave Newcastle's Carling Academy, which had only been open for a month. Organizers said it was simply a safety precaution after joists under the main dance floor came out of their springs.

November 21

Births

1904: Coleman Hawkins (Jazz Sax Player)

1940: Dr. John (Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr.) (Singer / Songwriter)

1965: Bjork Gudmundsdottir (Singer for The Sugarcubes and Solo)

1968: Alex James (Bass for Blur)

Events

1877: Thomas A. Edison unveils his new "talking machine," later dubbed the phonograph, to a gathering of friends and colleagues.

1960: Ray Charles has four singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart today: "Georgia on My Mind" at #5, "Ruby" at #51, "Hard Hearted Hannah" at #66, and "Come Rain Or Come Shine" at #95.

1962: Elvis Presley's 11th film, Girls! Girls! Girls!, opens in US theaters.

1968: With girlfriend Yoko Ono about to miscarry their first son, John Ono Lennon II, John Lennon asks for a tape recorder to be brought to the hospital so that he can record the baby's dying heartbeat. Later that day, Yoko miscarries; the baby is buried in a secret location and the recording appears on the duo's album Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions as a track called "Baby's Heartbeat," followed by "Two Minutes Silence" for his death.

1970: The Partridge Family started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Think I Love You'. The song was featured in the first episode of the Partridge Family TV series, made by the same company that made The Monkees.

1974: Wilson Pickett is arrested in New York for illegal possession of a firearm after pulling a gun on someone during an argument.

1974: After years of estrangement, Marty Balin is convinced to reunite with the Jefferson Airplane -- now named Jefferson Starship -- onstage at the Winterland ballroom in San Francisco, paving the way for his official reinvolvement with the band on Red Octopus.

1975: Elton John is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in conjunction with an "Elton John Week" being declared in Los Angeles.

1980: The Eagles' Don Henley is arrested in Los Angeles and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor when paramedics are called to his home to save a sixteen-year-old girl overdosing on cocaine and Quaaludes. He is fined $2,000 and given two years' probation.

1982: Joni Mitchell marries her bass player, Larry Klein, at manager Elliot Roberts' home in Malibu, CA.

1990: After a decade-long relationship, Mick Jagger marries model/actress Jerry Hall in a six-hour ceremony on the island of Bali. Eight years later, almost to the day, their marriage would be annulled after a judge rules the couple were never registered with authorities (and after Hall learns that Jagger is the father of someone else's child).

1991: Aerosmith guest stars on tonight's "Flaming Moe" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.

1995: Matthew Ashman, former Adam And The Ants and Bow Wow Wow guitarist died aged 35 from complications caused by diabetes.

1995: 2pac Shakur and Tha Dogg Pound gave out 2,000 turkeys in Los Angeles, CA.

1995: Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong was arrested and fined $141 for dropping his pants at a concert in Milwaukee, WI.

1997: Coolio and seven members of his band 40 Thevz were arrested and charged with theft and assault in a boutique in the town of Boblingen, Germany. The eight were charged with assaulting a female clerk in a clothing store and stealing clothing worth $2,000.

2003: The acoustic guitar on which George Harrison learned how to play is sold at a London auction for $500,000. The original price of the guitar: $7.00.

2003: In Santa Barbara, CA, Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation. Jackson immediately posted the $3 million bail and then flew back to Las Vegas where he had been filming a video. He was given an arraignment date of January 9, 2004.

2003: The Los Angeles Times reports that Phil Spector's chauffeur heard him say, "I think I killed somebody," after the shooting death of b-movie actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, CA home.

2007, The Red Hot Chili Peppers were suing The Showtime network over the name of its TV show ‘Californication’ saying the title was "immediately associated in the mind of the consumer" with its 1999 album and single release.