Musical birthdays today include bluesman Delbert McClinton (79), jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione (79), ex-Supremes vocalist Scherrie Payne (75), Throbbing Gristle multi-instrumentalist Cosey Fanni Tutti (68), Squeeze co-founder Chris Difford (65), Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess (63), Sean 'P Diddy ' Combs (50), and The Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala (45).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for hymn writer Augustus Toplady [best remembered for 'Rock of Ages'], born on this date in 1740... for variety singer Dickie Valentine, who would have been 90... for Irish folkie Tommy Makem, who would have been 87... for Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, who would have been 63... for No Use for a Name frontman Tony Sly, who would have been 49... for Felix Mendelssohn, who died on this date in 1847... for French composer Gabriel Fauré, who died in 1924... for Ink Spots founder member Ivory Watson, who passed away in 1969... and for MC5 guitarist Fred 'Sonic' Smith, who left us today in 1994.
Also on November 4: Borodin's opera Prince Igor premieres in St. Petersburg (1890)... Bob Dylan makes his Carnegie Hall debut before an audience of 53 in the Chapter Hall rehearsal space (1961)... The Beatles top the bill at The Royal Variety Show at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. With the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in the audience, John Lennon makes his famous quip "In the cheaper seats you clap your hands. The rest of you, just rattle your jewellery". The show will be broadcast on UK television on the 10th (1963)... Grant Green and sidemen record the Blue Note classic idle Moments (1964)... The Rolling Stones are at № 1 on both sides of the Atlantic with 'Get offa My Cloud' (1965)... The Beach Boys 'Good Vibrations' enters the British singles chart. It will go on to be a UK & US № 1 single. As a child, Brian Wilson's mother told him that dogs could pick up 'vibrations' from people, so that the dog would bark at 'bad vibrations'. Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song (1966)... Pink Floyd record ‘Point Me at the Sky’ and ‘Careful with That Axe, Eugene’ at Abbey Road Studios (1968)... Johnny Nash goes to №1 in the US with 'I Can See Clearly Now' (1972)... Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz, his film of The Band's 1976 farewell concert, has its world premiere in NYC (1977)... Bob Marley is baptised at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston, Jamaica, converting to Christian Rastafarianism and taking on the new name Berhane Selassie (1980)... Prince plays the first of seven nights at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the start of his 87-date North American Purple Rain tour. The outing also marks the live debut of his new band The Revolution (1984)... The Clash release their final studio album Cut the Crap (1985)... Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Booker T. & The M.G.s, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Sam & Dave and The Yardbirds are all elected to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (1991)... An unusual benefit concert takes place at the Santa Monica airport when Don Henley, James Taylor, Elvis Costello and other perform their favourite one-hit wonder songs; the show closes with a group rendition of 'It Never Rains in Southern California'. Proceeds from the show to go the City of Hope charity (1998)... In a bizarre outburst of experimental rock violence, lead singer Jean-Herve Peron attacks British Sea Power bassist Neil Hamilton Wilkinson during an onstage jam in Hove, Sussex (2005)... 35 years after the release of their eponymous debut, The Eagles finally have the № 1 album in the UK with their reunion offering Long Road Out of Eden (2007).
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