November 6th

 Musical birthdays today include Jive Five vocalist Eugene Pitt (87), country singer Guy Clark (83), AC/DC producer & ex-Easybeats guitarist George Young (78), French chansonnier Florent Pagny (63), Bangles founding member Annette Zilinskas (62), Bad Religion lead singer Greg Graffin (60), BoomKAT singer-songwriter Taryn Manning (45), and Evermore guitarist Jon Hume (40). 

Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Adolphe Sax [inventor of the saxophone], born on this day in 1814... for composer John Philip Sousa, born in 1854... for classical pianist Jan Paderewski, born in 1860... for bandleader Ray Conniff, born in 1918... for country singer Stonewall Jackson, born in 1932... for Tex-Mex singer-songwriter Doug Sahm, who would have been 80 today... for Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey, who would have been 76... for Christian Death frontman Rozz Williams, who would have been 62... for avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, who died on this date in 1965... and for country singer Hank Thompson, who left us today in 2007. 

Also on November 6th: Beethoven's String Quartet in A, op. 132 is performed in public for the first time in Vienna by the Schuppanzig Quartet (1825)... Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony, the October, premieres in Leningrad as part of a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution (1927)... Charles Mingus and sidemen, including Roland Kirk, record the album Oh Yeah at Atlantic Studios in NYC. It is one of the few albums of Mingus' career on which he plays piano throughout (1961)... During their first promotional visit to the UK, The Beach Boys appear live on ITV's 'Ready Steady Go!' [Ready Steady Go! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes which ran from August 1963 until December 1966] (1964)... The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane top the bill at the opening night of San Francisco's Fillmore West (1965)... Working at Abbey Road studios, the Beatles do the final mix of ‘Hello Goodbye’, ‘Your Mother Should Know’, ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ and ‘I Am the Walrus’. Because to the radio feed used in ‘I Am the Walrus’ was recorded in mono, the song changes from stereo to mono at the line 'Sitting in an English garden'... In one 3-hour session at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Bob Dylan cuts 'All along the Watchtower' and 'John Wesley Harding' (1967)... Joe Cocker is at № 1 on the UK singles chart with his version of 'With a Little Help from My Friends' (1968)... Aerosmith play their first ever live show when they perform at a dance at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, MA (1970)... The Stylistics release their eponymous debut album (1971)... Martin and Phil Kaufman are charged and fined $300 each for the theft of a coffin containing Gram Parsons' body. The two associates of the late singer argue to the court that they were merely carrying out Parson's wishes to be cremated in the Mojave desert (1973)... The Sex Pistols make their live debut at St Martin’s School Of Art in central London, supporting a band called Bazooka Joe, whose lead singer is Stuart Goddard, later to be known as Adam Ant. The Pistols’ 3-song performance lasts 10 minutes (1975)... The three remaining members of Led Zeppelin convene on the Channel island of Jersey to discuss the band's future after the death of John Bonham (1980)... Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' achieves the longest unbroken run on the UK singles charts ever when it logs its 43rd week in the Top 100 (1982)... Pearl Jam hit № 1 on the stateside charts with Vs, selling 950,378 copies for the highest one-week sales figure in US album history (1993)... Madonna plays her first live show in 8 years when she performs a brief [20-minute] set at New York's Roseland Ballroom. The diva wears a tight black vest bearing the sequinned name of 18 year-old Britney Spears (2000)... A number of streets in the German city Frankfurt are temporarily renamed after pop stars to mark the MTV Europe Music Awards. Madonna, Robbie Williams and Janet Jackson all have avenues named after them (2001).