November 10

Births

1947: Glen Buxton (Guitar for Alice Cooper)

1947: Greg Lake (Vocals & Bass for King Crimson & Emerson, Lake and Palmer)

1966: Steve Mackey (Bass for Pulp)

1967: Mushroom (Andrew Vowles) (Massive Attack)

1968: Chris Cagle (Country Artist)

1970: Warren G (Warren Griffin) (Rapper)

1972: DJ Ashba (Lead Guitar for Guns ‘N’ Roses)

1975: Jim Adkins (Lead Singer and Guitarist with Jimmy Eat World)

1978: Eve (Eve Jihan Jeffers) Rapper

1979: Chris Joannou (Bass for Silverchair)

1983: Miranda Lambert (Country Artist)

Events

1955: In his Nashville hotel room, songwriter Mae Axton plays Elvis Presley a demo of a song she's co-written called "Heartbreak Hotel."

1958: Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls, then a member of Cooke's backup band, are badly injured in a car crash in Marion, AR, while touring with the gospel group the Pilgrim Travellers. Rawls is hurt so badly he is actually pronounced dead at the scene; chauffeur Edward Cunningham, however, is the only actual casualty.

1966: British newspapers break the news that the Beatles will indeed refuse all future offers to tour.

1967: The Beatles film three separate videos for their new single, "Hello Goodbye," at London's Saville Theatre. The three are eventually edited together to form one video, but the BBC, which has just given in to a Musician's Union ban on lip-syncing, refuses to air the clip.

1970: Martha Reeves of the Vandellas gives birth to her first and only son, Eric.

1984: Former Rufus singer Chaka Khan was at No.1 on the singles chart with 'I Feel For You.' Written by Prince, the song featured Stevie Wonder on harmonica and the Rap was by Grandmaster Melle Mel. The repetition of Khan's name by rapper Melle Mel at the beginning of the song was originally a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep it.

1990: Vanilla Ice started a 16-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'To The Extreme.'

1994: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform an all-acoustic version of "Stairway To Heaven" while visiting a Japanese talk show.

1997: American session guitarist Tommy Tedesco died of lung cancer aged 67. Described by "Guitar Player" magazine as the most recorded guitarist in history recording with The Beach Boys, Everly Brothers, The Supremes, The Monkees, The Association, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, Sam Cooke, Cher, and Nancy and Frank Sinatra. And played on many TV themes including Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, M*A*S*H and Batman.

2002: On tonight's "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" episode of FOX-TV's The Simpsons, guest stars Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, and Brian Setzer operate a rock and roll fantasy camp.

2003: David Bowie is forced to cancel the remainder of his concert in Nice, France, when laryngitis causes his voice to go out completely in the middle of "Ziggy Stardust."

2006: Grammy-nominated R&B star Gerald Levert died of a heart attack aged 40. The singer who was the son of O'Jays vocalist Eddie Levert, first found fame with the R&B trio LeVert, and scored a UK top 10 single with Casanova in 1987.