November 30

Births

1915: Brownie McGhee (Blues Singer)

1929: Dick Clark (DJ)

1943: Rob Grill (Lead Singer for The Grass Roots)

1945: Roger Glover (Bass for Deep Purple)

1953: Shuggie Otis (Singer / Songwriter)

1953: June Pointer (Singer in The Pointer Sisters & Solo)

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

1957: John Ashton (Guitar for The Psychedelic Furs)

1958: Stacey Q (Stacey Lynn Swain) (Pop Singer)

1959: Cherie Currie (Singer for The Runaways)

1968: Des’ree (Desirée Annette Weeks) (R&B Singer)

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. The album stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that The Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks.

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.

1969: The Monkees made what would be their last live appearance for 15 years when they played at The Oakland Coliseum, California.

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."

1982: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album was released. It spent 190 weeks on the album charts became the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 50 million copies.

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)

1958: Michael Dempsey (Bass for The Cure)

1968: Jonathan Knight (New Kids On The Block)

1970: Ed O.G. (Edward Anderson) (Rapper)

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.

1960: Paul McCartney and Pete Best were deported from West Germany after being arrested on suspicion of arson after the hotel room they were staying in mysteriously caught fire. They were released and deported the next day.

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. (Producer / Founder of Motown Records)

1943: Randy Newman (Singer / Songwriter)

1949: Paul Shaffer (Dave Letterman Band Leader)

1962: Matt Cameron (Drums for Pearl Jam & Soundgarden)

1974: apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda) (Singer in The Black Eyed Peas)

1974: Styles P (David Styles) (Rapper in The Lox & Solo)

1979: Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki) (Rapper)

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

Events

1925: "The WSM Barn Dance" begins broadcasting in Nashville, with a one-hour performance by Uncle Jimmy Thompson. It's later renamed the Grand Ole Opry.

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 27

Births

1935: Al Jackson (Drums for Booker T. and the MGs)

1941: Eddie Rabbitt (Singer / Songwriter)

1942: Jimi Hendrix (Guitarist & Singer)

1962: Charlie Benante (Drums for Anthrax & S.O.D.)

1962: Mike Bordin (Drums for Faith No More)

1970: Scoob (William "Willie" Hines) (Rapper in Das EFX)

1973: Twista (a.k.a Tung Twista, born Carl Terrell Mitchell) (Rapper)

Events

1965: Author Ken Kesey and his band of "Merry Pranksters" hold the first "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in San Francisco.

1970: George Harrison released All Things Must Pass. The triple album included a number of songs that were left over from Beatle sessions, the set would go on to be certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, making it the best selling album by a solo Beatle.

1981: The British Phonographic Industry, backed by musicians like Elton John, Cliff Richard, and 10cc, places advertisements in the British press claiming "Home taping is wiping out music."

1995: The Beatles' Anthology I sets a first-week sales record of 1.2 million copies.

1997: A disturbed rock fan brought the funeral of INXS singer Michael Hutchence to a standstill when he tried to launch himself from a 20 ft high balcony with a cord around his neck. He was removed by police and taken away to a psychiatric unit.