Archive for November 25, 2009

1752 – Composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt was born.

1856 – Composer Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev was born.

1897 – Composer Virgil Thomson was born.

1957 – Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps appeared on Ed Sullivan for their first national TV appearance.

1961 – The Everly Brothers were inducted into the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.

1966 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience made its London performance debut at the Bag O’ Nails Club.

1968 – Saxophonist Albert Ayler was found drowned in New York’s Hudson River. He was 34 years old.

1984 – Several British and American stars got together as Band-Aid, and recorded “Do They Know It’s Christmas”. The project was planned by Bob Geldof. The proceeds of the record went to Ethiopian famine relief.

1985 – Bobby Brown announced that he was leaving New Edition for a solo career.

1997 – The original lineup of the Zombies played onstage for the first time in 30 years.

1997 – Garth Brooks’ seventh album “Sevens” was released.

1997 – The sixth album of 2Pac, “R U Still Down? (Remember Me),” was released posthumously.

1998 – Spin magazine editor Craig Marks told police that Marilyn Manson’s bodyguards pinned him against a wall and hauled him up into the air. Marks claimed that he was invited backstage to talk with Manson after a performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Manson allegedly threatened Marks with “`You know I can kill you, your family and everyone you know’.”

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