This Month in music history
November 1
• 1969: After a seven year absence, Elvis Presley returns to Billboard’s number one position with “Suspicious Minds”
November 3
• 1972: James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in a NYC apartment
• 1954: Adam Ant is born Harry Beetle
November 5
• 1946: Gram Parsons of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers is born
November 9
• 1993: Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee is arrested for trying to take a gun on an airplane
• 1967: The first issue of Rolling Stone is published in San Francisco and comes with a free ‘roach clip’
November 11
• 1972: At the age of 24, Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley is killed in a motorcycle accident. three blocks from where guitarist Duane Allman was also killed
November 12
• 1970: The Doors make their last concert appearance while in New Orleans
• 1945: Neil Young is born
November 15
• 1969: Janis Joplin is arrested in Tampa, Florida for the use of “vulgar and indecent language”
November 20
• 1994: Singer/songwriter David Crosby receives a liver transplant
• 1970: The Who’s Keith Moon collapses twice during a San Francisco concert
• 1965: Mike D (Diamond) of The Beastie Boys is born
• 1946: Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers is born
November 22
• 1997: Michael Hutchence of INXS hangs himself in an Australian hotel room
• 1967: Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Masacree” is released
November 24
• 1991: Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies of pneumonia the day after announcing to the world that he had AIDS
November 25
• 1976: The Band plays its last concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom; the show is recorded and made into the epic Martin Scorsese-directed film The Last Waltz
November 26
• 1968: Cream plays its last show at London’s Royal Albert Hall
November 27
• 1942: Jimi Hendrix is born
November 29
• 2001: George Harrison dies at the age of 58 at his home in Los Angeles
Complied from the archives of Rock & Roll Library www.rocklibrary.com
