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Noteworthy Then

11/22/1968 Beatles White Album released

 

 

The Beatles released one of the most ambitious albums in Rock history on this day in 1968.  What came to be known as the White Album came together as the band was coming apart and included a range of styles of music never before heard on an album featuring just one group.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 22 include...

 

1941 Jesse Colin Young born.

1941 Blood Sweat & Tears Ron McClure born

1942 Three Dog Night's Floyd Sneed born.

1947 Foghat's Rod Price born.

1949 E Street Band’s Steve Van Zandt born.

1950 Talking Head’s Tina Weymouth born.

1965 Bob Dylan marries Sarah Lowndes on Long Island.

1968 Kinks release Village Green Preservation Society.

1981 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards join Muddy Waters on stage at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago.

1990 Lawyer for Bill Wyman announces the end of the Rolling Stones member's marriage to Mandy Smith.

1991 Alice Cooper shows up at the home a Riverside, CA couple that painted his face on their house to sign autographs to help them avert foreclosure.

1991 Smithereens join the Kinks on Lola at the Boston Garden.

1997 Michael Hutchence of Inxs hangs himself in Sydney hotel room.

2002 Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger announce plan to relaunch the Doors with Ian Asbury of the Cult as lead singer.

2009 Bruce Springsteen closes 2 year Working On A Dream tour in Buffalo. It ends up being the last concert with Clarence Clemons.

2016 Bruce Springsteen awarded Medal of Freedom by President Obama in White House ceremony...