November 4

Births

1940: Delbert McClinton (Blues artist)

1954: Chris Difford (Guitar & Vocals for Squeeze)

1956: Jordan Rudess (Keyboards for Dream Theater)

1956: Jimmy Honeyman-Scott (Guitar for Pretenders)

1966: Kool Rock- Ski (Damon Wimbley) (Rapper in The Fat Boys)

1969: Sean John Combs (Puff Daddy & P. Diddy, Diddy) (Rapper)

Events

1961: A young Bob Dylan appears at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time. Unfortunately, only about 50 people attend, most of them friends of the singer.

1976: A bomb threat delays the start of Bruce Springsteen's concert at the Palladium in New York; Springsteen jokes that the threat was made by former manager Mike Appel, who's currently suing him.

1977: The Last Waltz, director Martin Scorsese's acclaimed documentary of the Band's star-studded last concert, premieres in New York City, featuring Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, the Staple Singers, Dr. John, and more.

1978: Former Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young bassist Greg Reeves sues the group for a million dollars in alleged unpaid royalties from sales of the hit 1970 album Deja Vu.

1978: Boston played their first show in the city of Boston.

1978: Van Morrison is the musical guest on tonight's episode of NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live, performing "Wavelength" and "Kingdom Hall."

1980: An ailing Bob Marley is baptized a "Christian Rastafarian" at Kingston, Jamaica's Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

1986: Country Singer Tammy Wynette enters the Betty Ford Clinic with an addiction to painkillers.

1991: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its 7th annual inductees, including Jimi Hendrix, Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave, the Yardbirds, the Isley Brothers, Johnny Cash, and Bobby "Blue" Bland.

1992: Elton John and Bernie Taupin sign a $39 million songwriting deal with publishing giant Warner/Chappell, the largest such deal up to that time.

1993: Depeche Mode's Martin Gore was arrested at the Denver Westin Hotel after refusing to turn down the volume of his music in his room.

1994: MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith died from a heart failure at age 45.

1998: Michael Jackson announces that wife Debbie Rowe is pregnant with his first child, denying tabloid reports that Rowe was paid to be artificially impregnated and carry the child to term.

1998: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was arrested after an alleged drunken brawl with photographer Mel Bouzac at a London pub. Bouzac had been tipped off that Liam was in the pub wearing a Russian hat and attempted to take photos.

November 3

Births

1933: John Barry (Composer)

1945: Nick Simper (Bass for Deep purple)

1948: Lulu (Lulu Kennedy-Cairns) (Pop Singer)

1954: Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) (Singer)

1960: Ian McNabb (Guitar & Vocals for Icicle Works)

1971: Sticky Fingaz (Kirk Jones) (Rapper in Onxy)

1973: No. 7 (Mick Thomson) (Guitar for Slipknot)

1978: Tim McIlrath (Lead Vocals for Rise Against)

Events

1957: CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show accidentally cuts off Sam Cooke mid-song when "You Send Me" isn't given enough time at the end of tonight's show. Sullivan invites the singer back the next month to make up for it.

1960: Merle Haggard is released from San Quentin Prison and allowed to complete the more than two years remaining on his sentence on parole.

1964: Mayor Ralph Locker of Cleveland, OH, bans the Rolling Stones from playing the city ever again after a teenager falls from a balcony during the group's concert. Locker is quoted as commenting, "Such groups do not add to the community's culture or entertainment."

1967: The Beatles complete filming on their movie Magical Mystery Tour.

1972: Carly Simon and James Taylor, icons of the Seventies singer-songwriter movement and the highest-paid couple in entertainment, are married at Simon's apartment in Manhattan. Later, at a celebratory concert at Radio City Music Hall, Taylor quips: "I don't know whether to be more nervous about the concert or the marriage." The union lasts eleven years.

1977: Elton John announces his retirement during a concert at London's Empire Pool. He would return to the music business within a year and a half.

1983: RCA records signed Latin teen sensations Menudo for $30m. The line up of five young boys all had to sign a contract agreeing to leave the group when they reached 16, (when too old for the group). Ricky Martin was once a member.

1990: After being featured prominently in the smash hit film Ghost, the Righteous Brothers' version of "Unchained Melody" returns to the top of the charts after 25 years.

1990: 'Ice Ice Baby', by Vanilla Ice became the first rap record to top the US singles chart. The track was initially released as the B-side to the rapper's cover of 'Play That Funky Music', and became the A-side after US DJ's started playing the track.

1991: Legendary rock promoter Bill Graham's funeral in San Francisco is attended by over 300,000 people, though the many musical acts that perform -- the Grateful Dead, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, Santana, Journey and Joan Baez -- may have helped the turnout.

1995: Hootie and the Blowfish reach an out-of-court settlement with Bob Dylan for an undisclosed amount after courts rule group lifted lyrics from Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue" for their recent hit "Only Wanna Be With You."

1997: In Santa Monica, CA, Billy Preston is sentenced to three years in prison for cocaine possession and violating parole.

1997: Metallica came to a out of court agreement with a fan who claimed he lost his sense of smell after being dropped on his head by fans at one of their shows four years earlier.

2004: Eric Clapton is made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace.

2006: A man who had been stalking US singer, actress Hilary Duff was arrested for threatening to kill her. According to legal papers, Maksim Miakovsky had gone to the U.S. "for the sole purpose of meeting and becoming romantically involved with Ms. Duff". He was later sentenced to 117 days in jail and five years probation after pleading no contest to the charges.

November 2

Births

1944: Keith Emerson (Keyboards for The Nice & Emerson, Lake and Palmer)

1945: J.D. Souther (Singer / Songwriter)

1952: Maxine Nightingale (R&B Singer)

1957: Carter Beauford (Drummer for Dave Matthews Band)

1961: K.D. Lang (Kathryn Dawn Lang) (Singer/Songwriter)

1963: Bobby Dall (Bass for Poison)

1969: Reginald Arvizu (Bass for Korn)

1971: John Hampson (Vocals & Guitar for Nine days)

1974: Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr) (Rapper)

1975: Chris Walla (Guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie)

1980: Thomas Bredahl (Guitar for Volbeat)

Events

1956: A riot breaks out at Fats Domino's show in Fayetteville, NC, with police resorting to tear gas to break up the unruly crowd. Fats jumps out of a window to avoid the melee. He and two other band members are slightly injured.

1963: Dion angrily walks off the set of the British ITV television program Ready Steady Go! in the middle of performing his hit "Donna The Prima Donna," claiming the go-go dancers surrounding him during the song are distracting.

1966: Paul Revere and the Raiders appear on tonight's "Dizzoner the Penguin" episode of ABC-TV's Batman.

1966: Blues singer Mississippi John Hurt died from a heart attack at age 73.

1973: CBS airs the Barbra Streisand television special Barbra Streisand And Other Musical Instruments, featuring special guest Ray Charles.

1974: George Harrison begins the first-ever solo tour by a Beatle when he performs the first night of his "Dark Horse" tour in Vancouver, BC. The tour, which is plagued by Harrison's laryngitis, is a disaster.

1979: The Who's musical film Quadrophenia, featuring a small part played by Sting, opens in US theaters.

1978: David Cassidy's infamous flop cop TV drama David Cassidy: Man Undercover debuts on NBC, the first of only ten episodes.

1984: Marvin Gay Sr., father of singer Marvin Gaye (who added the e when he joined Motown) is found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his son, but courts rule the action was taken in self-defense, and the elder Gay is given five years' probation.

1985: With his new single, "Part-Time Lover," topping the charts, Stevie Wonder becomes the artist with the longest period between Number Ones: 22 years. (This song also sets a record by going to #1 on five different Billboard charts.)

1994: Ruth Tyrangiel, former girlfriend of Bob Dylan, sues for $5 million palimony, claiming the singer reneged on his promise to marry her after she helped with his business affairs and also with his songwriting.

1994: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's David Crosby is hospitalized after suffering liver failure; he's fortunate enough to find a donor for a transplant.

1995: The syndicated R&B dance show Soul Train celebrates its 25th year on the air with guest appearances by Al Green, Diana Ross, Bill Withers, and Patti Labelle.

2002: Armed police arrested an international gang who were planning to kidnap former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her two young children. The gang had planned to ransom Victoria for $10M.

2003: Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs ran in the New York City Marathon. He finished in 4 hours, 14 minutes and 54 seconds. He raised $2 million dollars for children.

2007: Led Zeppelin's latest reunion concert is postponed when guitarist Jimmy Page breaks his pinky finger.

November 1

Births

1937: Bill Anderson (Country Singer)

1946: Ric Grech (Bass for Blind Faith & Traffic)

1949: David Foster (Producer)

1950: Dan Peek (Guitar and vocals for America)

1957: Lyle Lovett (Country Artist)

1959: Eddie Macdonald (Bass for The Alarm)

1962: Anthony Kiedis (Singer for Red Hot Chili Peppers)

1962: Mags Furuholmen (Guitar & Keyboards for A-Ha)

1963: Rick Allen (Drums for Def Leppard)

1963: Big Kenny (Kenny Alphin) (Guitar & Vocals in Big & Rich)

1966: Willie D (William James Dennis) (Rapper in Geto Boys)

1967: Sophie B. Hawkins (Singer)

1969: Darren Partington (Keyboards for 808 State)

1972: Jenny McCarthy (Just because)

1975: Bo Bice (Singer)

1981: LaTavia Roberson (Original member of Destiny's Child)

Events

1955: Macon, GA R&B favorites The Famous Flames enter local radio station WIBB to record a demo of their first song, "Please, Please, Please." The primitive scorcher, featuring lead singer James Brown pleading into a single microphone while standing on a Coca-Cola carton, would be rejected by several record labels before finally being picked up by Federal Records in Cincinnati.

1959: Ray Charles leaves his old label, Atlantic, for ABC-Paramount Records.

1959: Elvis Presley's current stint in the Army means that for the first time in nearly five years, no Elvis single resides on the Billboard charts.

1964: Yet another British Invasion band makes its US television debut on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show: The Dave Clark Five, whose clean-cut image visibly relieves the host, who is still suffering from the Stones riot of a few days' earlier. After the band plays "Glad All Over," Ed goes out of his way to tag them as "nice, neat boys."

1965: The Rolling Stones' concert in Rochester, NY, ends abruptly when 3,000 rabid fans storm the stage after just seven minutes. After three more attempts to resume the show, it's canceled by police, with only six songs having been played.

1968: George Harrison released his first solo album, 'Wonderwall Music' on the Apple label. The songs, which were mostly Harrison instrumentals, featured Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and an unaccredited banjo contribution by Peter Tork of The Monkees.

1970: ABBA, then known as the Festfolk Quartet, play their first-ever concert at a Gothenburg, Sweden restaurant.

1975: Due to lead singer Karen Carpenter's struggle with anorexia, the Carpenters are forced to cancel their upcoming European tour.

1979: Bob Dylan debuts the songs from his new album, a Christian polemic called Slow Train Coming, on the first night of his new tour in San Francisco, CA. A shocked audience boos the new material throughout the set.

1980: Bruce Springsteen scored his first No.1 US album with 'The River', featuring the US No.5 single 'Hungry Heart.'

1991: After having a cancerous lung removed, former Temptation Eddie Kendricks is released from an Atlanta hospital.

1993: Flavor Flav (William Drayton) from Public Enemy was arrested charged with attempted murder of his neighbor. Flav claimed he had sex with his girlfriend.