November 16

Births

1938: Troy Seals (Singer for Seals & Croft)

1958: Harry Rushakoff (Drummer for Concrete Blonde)

1962: Gary 'Mani' Mounfield (Bass for The Stone Roses)

1962: Josh Silver (Keyboards for Type O Negative)

1964: Diana Krall (Singer / Songwriter & Pianist)

1966: Dave Kushner (Rhythm Guitar for Velvet Revolver)

1969: Bryan Abrams (Singer in Color Me Badd)

Events

1955: Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry, Cry, Cry".

1965: CBS-TV airs the Frank Sinatra documentary Sinatra: An American Original, hosted by Walter Cronkite.

1968: Led Zeppelin played their first ever show in the north of England when they appeared at Manchester College of Science & Technology.

1974: John Lennon was at No.1 in the US singles chart with 'Whatever Gets You Through The Night.' Elton John played on the session and made a deal with Lennon that if the song reached No.1, Lennon would have to appear on stage live with Elton. Lennon kept his side of the deal and appeared live with Elton. They played three songs together: ‘I Saw Her Standing There,’ ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ and ‘Whatever Gets You Through the Night.’ Backstage after the concert, Lennon got back with Yoko Ono after a temporary split.

1976: Resident genius of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, comes out of an eight-year seclusion to give an interview to BBC 2's music show Old Grey Whistle Test.

1978: A musical tribute to the songs of the Beatles starring the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and dozens of others, the infamous fantasy film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band opens in Us theaters. A notorious flop that was widely panned by critics, the musical does quite a bit of damage to the careers of all who appear in it, including co-stars Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, and Stargard. Comedian Steve Martin, George Burns, and Earth Wind and Fire, however, emerge from the disaster relatively unscathed.

1978: Replicating their infamous promo stunt for the single, Queen are joined onstage at Madison Square Garden by several dozen nude, semi-overweight women during their performance of "Bicycle Race." (Overweight because the single mentions "fat bottomed girls," the title of the other half of the A-side.)

1985: U2 launched their own record label 'Mother Records.'

1987: Former Clash drummer Topper Headon was jailed for 15 months at Maidstone Crown Court, England for supplying heroin to a man who later died.

1987: Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz.  They separated in 1990 and divorced in 1993.

1988: Stan Love, brother and manager of Beach Boy Mike Love, is sentenced to five years' suspended sentence after being found guilty of embezzling over $300,000 from the group.

1996: The Beatles become the first artists to score three Number One albums in the same year when their Anthology 3 hits the top of the American charts.

1998: Having suffered a seizure while performing in Hollywood a few weeks earlier, Roland Alphonso of the Skatalites slips into a coma.

2000: American rapper Joseph (Joe C.) Calleja died of chronic intestinal disorder. Calleja had celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that can cause stunted growth, as a result, he reached a maximum height of 3 feet, 9 inches by adulthood. He was a member of Kid Rock's band.

2001: The city of Palm Springs, CA unveils a statue in its downtown area honoring the late Sonny Bono, half of Sonny and Cher and mayor of the city for a time in the Eighties.

2006: Queen's Greatest Hits is declared the most popular album of all time in Britain, with more than five-and-a-half million units sold. At Number Two: the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper.

2006: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sends 417 more letters to sixteen college administrators threatening mass lawsuits if file-sharing is found happening on university servers.