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November 28
Winifred Atwell was at No.1 in 1954 on the UK singles chart with “Let’s Have Another Party”. Atwell was the first black artist to reach No.1 in the UK and the first black artist to sell a million records.
John Lennon made his last ever concert appearance when he joined Elton John in 1974 on stage at Madison Square Gardens 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”.
Nirvana recorded a performance for the BBC TV music show Top Of The Pops in London in 1991. 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 lyrics, exchanging the opening line “load up on guns, bring your friends,” for “load up on drugs, kill your friends.”
November 29
The Lancaster local council canceled the Sex Pistols gig in 1976 at Lancaster Poly, England.
They gave the reason in a statement by the council saying: ‘We don’t want that [sort of] filth (The Sex Pistols) in the town limits.’
Whitney Houston pulled out of a concert in 1997, two hours before she was due on stage. After finding out the event was a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie couples, she reneged. The religious group said they had no intention of suing to provide the singer returned the $1m fees she had received.
Beatles guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles in 2001 of lung cancer aged 58. Following the breakup of The Beatles, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys. The youngest member of The Beatles, (aged 16 when he joined), his compositions include “Taxman”, “Here Comes the Sun”, “Something”, and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. Harrison released the acclaimed triple album, All Things Must Pass, in 1970, from which came the worldwide No.1 single “My Sweet Lord”.
November 30
They shot Tupac Shakur five times during a 1994 robbery outside a New York City recording studio.
The Boy Scouts Association blasted Elton after he appeared on stage at London’s Albert Hall performing “It’s A Sin”. The 1999 performance had six male dancers dressed as Boy Scouts.
The dancers had peeled off their uniforms during the performance.
A Kentucky teacher lost her 1987 appeal in the US Supreme Court over her termination after showing Pink Floyd‘s film The Wall to her class.
The court decided the film was not suitable for minors with its vulgar language and sexual content.
France placed Bob Dylan under judicial investigation in 2013. They alleged he provoked ethnic hatred of Croats. It followed a legal complaint lodged by a Croat association in France over a 2012 interview Dylan gave to Rolling Stone magazine, where Dylan compared the relationship between Jews and Nazis to that of Serbs and Croats.
December 1
Drake became Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2016, with his single ‘One Dance’ the site’s biggest song of the year. The Canadian had 4.7 billion streams this year, more than half of which was for his album Views. “One Dance” alone streamed 960 million times. Played consecutively, that would take over 5,200 years.
December 2
Al Priddy, a DJ on US radio station KEX in Portland lost his job in 1957 after playing Elvis Presley‘s version of “White Christmas”. The station management said, ‘it’s not in the spirit we associate with Christmas’.
A maintenance man kidnapped Cindy Birdsong of The Supremes at knifepoint in 1969.
He worked in the building she lived in. She later escaped unharmed by jumping out of his car on the San Diego freeway. They arrested her kidnapper in Las Vegas four days later.
December 3
Brian Epstein invited The Beatles into his office in 1961 to discuss the possibility of becoming their manager. John Lennon, George Harrison, and Pete Best arrived late for the 4 pm meeting. They had been drinking at the Grapes pub. Paul McCartney was a no-show, because, as Harrison explained, he had just got up and was “taking a bath”.
Rolling Stone Keith Richards became unconscious in 1965 by an electric shock on stage at the Memorial Hall In Sacramento, California, when his guitar contacted his microphone.
December 4
Workers at EMI records went on strike in 1976. They refused to package The Sex Pistols single “Anarchy In The UK”.
U2 appeared at The Hope and Anchor, Islington, London in 1979. Misnamed ‘The U2s’, they played to only nine people and the show ended after The Edge broke a guitar string.
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