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Today in Rock History – November 28

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1963, “She Loves You” by The Beatles returned to number one for the second time on the UK singles chart.

1964, The Shangri-Las went to number one on the singles chart with the teen death song “Leader Of The Pack.”

1967, The Beatles recorded their last fan club record as a group, “Christmas Time Is Here Again!” The Beatles’ Christmas records were spoken and musical messages from the group that were mailed out on flexi disc at Christmas time to members of their official fan-clubs in the United Kingdom and the United States.

1968, Deep Purple played the first of four nights at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, on their first North American tour.

1968, John Lennon pleads guilty to possession of cannabis following his arrest in October. He’s fined £150 ($240). Lennon and Yoko Ono are found not guilty of obstructing the police.

1969, Pink Floyd performed at the Brunel University Arts Festival Weekend at Refrectory Hall, Brunel University, Uxbridge, England.

1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young played at Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, Texas.

1969, Ringo Starr records tracks for his Sentimental Journey LP.

1970, Dave Edmunds was at number one on the singles chart with his version of the 1955 Smiley Lewis hit “I Hear You Knocking.” Also the first release on the new MAM record label.

1970, The Who play Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry. The Who plan to leave on a high note but after cutting down Tommy and losing “Summertime Blues,”  and “Shakin’ All Over,”  they realize they’ve only played 45 minutes. Pete Townshend later declares the show a “disaster.”

1970, Bob Dylan’s 11th studio album New Morning was on the UK charts, his sixth UK number one. The album featured “If Not For You,” which was recorded by both George Harrison on his 1970 album All Things Must Pass, and became the title track for Olivia Newton-John’s 1971 debut album.

1971, Pink Floyd perform at Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

1971, The Who played at Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee. Keith Moon caused $1400 (£1000) worth of damage to his hotel room.

1972, Genesis appeared at Imperial College, London.

1973, Lynyrd Skynyrd played at St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, Missouri.

1974, John Lennon made his last ever concert appearance when he joined Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Lennon performed three songs, “Whatever Gets You Thru The Night,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” and “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.”

1974, Eric Clapton played at Friedrich-Ebert Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany.

1975, Rush played at the Civic Center, Asheville, North Carolina.

1976, The Sex Pistols appeared on BBC TV’s Nationwide and ITV’s London Weekend Show.

1977, Yes performed at Deutschlandhalle, West Berlin, Germany.

1978, Bob Dylan headlined at the Mississippi Coliseum, Jackson, Mississippi.

1979, Aerosmith played at Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee.

1980, The Grateful Dead performed at the Civic Center in Lakeland, Florida.

1987, David Bowie played the second of four sold-out nights during his Glass Spider Tour in Australia and New Zealand at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne.

1987, The Jennifer Warnes’ duet with Bill Medley “(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life,” taken from the film Dirty Dancing, went to number one on the US singles chart. In the UK the song had two chart outings. In November 1987, after the film’s initial release, the song peaked at number six, and in January 1991, after the film was shown on mainstream television, the song reached the eighth spot.

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 protested by singing an octave lower (he later confirmed he was imitating Morrissey from The Smiths), and attempted to eat his microphone at one point. He also changed some of the lyrics, changing the opening line “load up on guns, bring your friends,” to “load up on drugs, kill your friends.”

1992, Whitney Houston started a record-breaking fourteen-week run atop 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.

1999, Rage Against The Machine were at number one on the US album chart with The Battle Of Los Angeles, the band’s second US chart topper.

2004, Metallica played the last show on their 137-date Madly in Anger with the World Tour at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. It became the fourth-highest grossing tour of 2004, reaping $60,500,000 (£37,812,500) in ticket sales.

Born on November 28: Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records (1929); Randy Newman (1943); Beeb Birtles, Little River Band (1948);  Matt Cameron, drummer, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam (1962); Matt Cheslin, bass, Neds Atomic Dustbin (1970); Rostam Batmanglij, Vampire Weekend (1983)

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1965,  The Who pre-tape an appearance on Radio Luxembourg’s Ready Steady Radio! at The Marquee followed by a gig at the Pontiac Club in southwest London’s Putney, where the band’s PA blows up after the first set. The Who’s first live performance of “My Generation” may have taken place at this explosive set.

1965, Rolling Stone Charlie Watts buys a 16th century wooden mansion in Sussex, England. His father tells the press, “We can’t understand why he prefers an old place like this to something modern.”

1966, James Brown appeared at The Apollo Theatre in New York City.

1968, Pink Floyd plays a Friday night gig at UFO, The Blarney Club, on Tottenham Court Road in London.  On the bill were Fairport Convention and Shiva’s Children. From Melody Maker, “In a cacophony of sound played to a background of multi-coloured projected lights the Pink Floyd proved they are Britain’s top psychedelic group. In two powerful sets they drew nearly every conceivable note from their instruments, but ignored their two hit singles…..Bass player Roger Waters gave the group a powerful depth and the lights played on to them to set an impressive scene.” This was the last show at the “intimate” Blarney Club. The landlord kicked producer Joe Boyd out of the space, and they relocated to the much larger Roundhouse venue.

1969, Yes play at the Old Granary in Bristol, England.

1969, Police in Moscow reported that thousands of public phone booths had been vandalized after thieves were stealing parts of the phones to convert their acoustic guitars to electric. A feature in a Russian youth magazine had shown details on how to do this.

1970, “Ned Kelly,” starring Mick Jagger as the behelmeted highwayman, opens in Australia. Reception is unkind. Halliwell’s Film Guide fumes, “Obstinately unlikable action picture with some kind of message which never becomes clear amid all the cleverness.”

1973, Chicago went to number one on the album chart with Chicago IV. It was the group’s second chart topper.

1973, The Watkins Glen outdoor summer jam was held outside of Watkins Glen, New York with The Allman Brothers, The Grateful Dead and The Band. Over 600,000 rock fans attended. Many historians claimed the event was the largest gathering of people in the history of the United States. 150,000 tickets were sold for $10 each, but for all the other people it was a free concert. The crowd was so huge that a large part of the audience was not able to see the stage.

1974, Peter Frampton appears at the Garden, in Boston, Massachusetts.

1975, Bob Dylan plays his first session for the Desire album. On “Romance in Durango,” he’s joined by Eric Clapton on dobro, while Emmylou Harris plays steel guitar on “Abandoned Love.” The album features the song “Hurricane.” It protests the conviction of former middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter for triple murder in 1966, arguing for his innocence.

1975, The Rolling Stones perform at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Tickets were $9.50.

1978, The lineup for Buffalo’s Summerfest at Rich Stadium was Bob Welch, Pablo Cruise, Foreigner, and the headliner was Welch’s former mates, Fleetwood Mac.

1979, Van Halen plays the Fieldhouse in Dayton, Ohio.

1979, “I Don’t Like Mondays” gave The Boomtown Rats their second UK number one single. Bob Geldof wrote the song after reading a report on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children playing in a school playground across the street from her home in San Diego, California. She killed two adults and injured eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime, and her full explanation for her actions was “I don’t like Mondays, this livens up the day.”

1980, The Police, U2 and Squeeze all appeared at the Dalymount Festival in Dublin, Ireland.

1996, Marge Ganser from The Shangri-Las died of breast cancer. The group scored over ten hits during the 60’s including the 1964 US number one “Leader Of The Pack.”

2008, Amy Winehouse was rushed to hospital after she started to have fits at her home in Camden North London. A spokesman said it appeared the singer had suffered a reaction to medication she was taking to help her off hard drugs.

Born on July 28: George Cummings, steel guitar, Dr Hook (1938); Michael Bloomfield (1944); Rick Wright, Pink Floyd (1945); Jonathan Edwards (1946); Garald Casale, Devo (1948); Simon Kirke, drums, Free (1949); Steve Morse, Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, Kansas (1954); Dan Warton, drums, Neds Atomic Dustbin (1972)

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