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.

October 31

Births

1952: Bernard Edwards (Bass for Chic)

1961: Larry Mullen (Drummer for U2)

1963: Johnny Marr (Guitarist for The Smiths, The The & Modest Mouse)

1963: Mikkey Dee (Drummer for Motorhead)

1964: Darryl Worley (Country Singer)

1964: Colm O'Ciosoig (Drummer for My Bloody Valentine)

1966: Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) (Rapper in The Beastie Boys)

1966: Annabella Lwin (Singer for Bow Wow Wow)

1967: Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) (Rapper)

1970: Rogers Stevens (Guitar for Blind Melon)

1981: Frank Iero (Rhythm Guitarist for My Chemical Romance)

2000: Willow Smith (Rapper?)

Events

1952: When his original guitarist has a stroke just before a New Year's Eve gig, popular St. Louis boogie-woogie pianist Johnnie Johnson hires for his group The Sir John's Trio a 26-year old hairdresser named Chuck Berry.

1963: The Beatles return from a tour of Sweden to find 50,000 screaming fans waiting for them at London's Heathrow Airport, the surest proof yet that Beatlemania is a national phenomenon. Waiting at the airport is American TV host Ed Sullivan, who notices the furor. "Who are those guys?" he asks a bystander, who tells him they are "England's foremost singing group." Having never heard them, Sullivan nevertheless immediately contacts manager Brian Epstein to book the band for three appearances on his CBS show early in 1964.

1964: Ray Charles is arrested at Boston's Logan Airport for possession of heroin, his third drug since 1958. The singer is ordered to rehab in order to avoid jail time.

1967: The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones is released on $1500 bail from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London after being charged with marijuana possession. Seven fans are arrested for demonstrating outside the prison gates.

1967: The Stooges make their live debut at a Detroit, MI, Halloween party.

1968: Paul McCartney's new girlfriend, Linda Eastman, moves into his London home.

1970: Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas marries actor Dennis Hopper, a marriage that is annulled seven days later.

1974: Members of Led Zeppelin launch their new artist-owned label, Swan Song, at the Chislehurst Caves in England, with the Pretty Things, Bill Wyman, and Groucho Marx -- not to mention several dozen naked models -- attending.

1976: Elvis Presley makes his last recording, singing Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go" over a pre-recorded backing track in the Jungle Room of his Graceland home.

1988: Singer Debbie Gibson held a seance at her Halloween party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicious.

1989: The very first MTV unplugged show was recorded in New York, featuring UK band Squeeze, the program was aired on 26th Nov 1989.

1990: During a gig in Seattle, Washington, Billy Idol dumped 600 dead fish in Faith No More's dressing room. They responded by walking on stage, naked during Idol's set.

1993: Tupac Shakur was arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta policemen.

1995: James Brown is charged with assault at his home in Aiken, SC, after allegedly striking his wife Adrienne with a mirror.

1996: Slash announced he was no longer in Guns N' Roses. The guitarist said that Axl Rose and he had only been civil to each other on two occasions since 1994.

2005: The Isley Brothers' Ron Isley is sentenced to 26 years in federal prison on tax evasion charges.

2005: The white suit John Lennon wore on the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road sells at a Las Vegas Amnesty International charity auction for $118,000.