November 22nd

Musical birthdays today include organist and composer Peter Hurford (88), Youngbloods founder Jesse Colin Young (77), former Bob Marley & the Wailers bassist Aston Barrett (72), E Street band guitarist Steven van Zandt (68), ex-Talking Heads bassist Tina Weymouth (68), Styx lead singer Larence Gown (61), singer-songwriter Horse (60), Carter USM singer & guitarist Jim Bob (58), Hello Saferide frontwoman Annika Norlin (41), Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O (40), Napster inventor & entrepreneur Shawn Fanning (38), singer-songwriter & former a1  member Ben Adams (37), and Trivium guitarist Corey Beaulieu (35). 

Shoutout to the Great Beyond for songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, born 0n this day in 1899... for composer Benjamin Britten, born today in 1913... for composer, pianist & musicologist Dika Newlin, born in 1923... for country singer Terry Stafford, who would have been 76... for composer Arthur Sullivan, who died today in 1900... for former INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who took his own life at the age of 37 on this day in 1997... and for rapper MC Breed, who left us today in 2008. 

Also on November 22: Ravel's Bolero premieres in Paris (1928)... Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel make their US television debut, in their incarnation as Tom and Jerry on ABC-TV's American Bandstand. They perform their hit 'Hey Schoolgirl' (1957)... The Beatles release their second UK album, With The Beatles (1963)... Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes are married in a small civil ceremony at the Nassau County, NY courthouse (1965)... Singer-songwriter [and later Dylanologist] Long John Baldry is at  on the UK singles chart with 'Let the Heartaches Begin... George Harrison goes into the studio to begin recording the soundtrack to the film Wonderwall, his first solo effort (1967)... The double LP officially entitled The Beatles and more commonly known as The White Album is released (1968)... Bruce Springsteen's band Steel Mill opens for Iron Butterfly at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA (1969)... Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested for drunk driving after being found unconscious in his Rolls Royce in a ditch outside Pensacola, FL (1976)... Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble kick off a 149-date North American & European tour at the Towson Center in Towson, MD (1986)...  Bill Wyman announces that his 17-month marriage to model Mandy Smith is over. With the consent of her mother, Smith started dating the 47-year-old Rolling Stones bassist when she was 13 (1990)...  Supporting his new album Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon opens his first South American tour in Rio de Janeiro (1992)... Pearl Jam release their third studio album Vitalogy, which first comes out on vinyl. It becomes the first vinyl LP to appear on the US charts since 1981, when the domination of the compact disc format began (1994)... Surviving members of The Doors Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger announce that they will record and tour again with a new line up including ex-Cult singer Ian Astbury and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland. Original drummer John Densmore is unable to take part because he is suffering from severe tinnitus (2002)... U2 shoot the video for 'All Because Of You' from a moving flat bed truck on the streets of Brooklyn. Later in the day, they perform a brief concert under the Brooklyn Bridge which is taped by MTV for later broadcast (2004)... Poems written by Bob Dylan in his college days sell for $78,000 (£45,000) at a New York auction. The 16 pages of verses are the first known use by Robert Zimmerman of the pseudonym to which he will legally change his name in 1962, and date from his enrollment at the University of Minnesota during 1959-60 (2005).