November closes with a relatively quiet day in Classic Rock history, but it's one that includes the anniversary of a monumental album. On this day in 1979, Pink Floyd released The Wall. The double album the group spent 12 months recording was the top selling album from mid January through the end of April of 1980. The concept album of the angst and alienation of a character said to have been modeled on Syd Barrettt and Roger Waters remains one of the biggest releases in history with more than 20 million copies sold, no doubt a fair portion of those being replacement copies bought by Floyd fans that wore previous copies out.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 30 include...

1943 Ten Years After bassist Leo Lyons born.

1945 Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover born.

1952 Jethro Tull bassist John Glascock born.

1953 Early E Street Band keyboard player David Sancious born.

1955 Billy Idol born William Michael Albert Broad.

1967 Jefferson Airplane releases After Bathing At Baxters.

1972 The BBC pulls airplay of the Paul McCartney & WIngs song Hi, Hi,Hi.

1982 Sammy Hagar releases Three Lock Box.

1995 Axl Rose files a suit demanding bigger share of Guns N’ Roses profits.

2009 Drummer Vinnie Appice has shoulder surgery to repair injury sustained during Heaven & Hell tour.

2022 Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie dies at 79, following what her family only describes as a brief illness.

2022 A stage crasher rushes the Black Crowes during the group's Melbourne, Australia concert. Rich Robinson uses his guitar neck to fend him off...
 

The 'quiet Beatle', George Harrison died of lung cancer on this day in 2001.  His passing came almost 31 years to the day after the release of All Things Must Pass, his third  solo album.

While the Lennon/McCartney writing team produced the vast majority of songs on most Beatles albums, Harrison  was credited on several of the band's best, including While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Taxman, I Want to Tell You, If I Needed Someone, Something and Here Comes the Sun.

George also had a major hand in the group's embrace of of the new musical influences that helped craft the ground breaking sounds of the Rubber Soul and Revolver albums. He released a dozen albums on his own and in his later years teamed with Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison in the Traveling Wilburys, a group Harrison and Lynne cooked-up the idea of forming when the Electric Light Orchestra veteran was producing George's 1987 Cloud Nine.

Harrison's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh in New York's Madison Square Garden to awareness and raise relief funds for those facing war related genocide was one of the first major benefit concerts. The two shows featured a lineup of artists that included Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Badfinger and Ravi Shankar raised $250,000 for UNICEF.

Despite the fact Clapton had vied for and won Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd (the inspiration for If I Needed Someone and Something by Harrison and Layla and Wonderful Tonight by Eric), the two guitarists remained friends.

A year after George's death, Eric participated in an all-star tribute to Harrison at Royal Albert Hall . The Concert for George as it was billed also included Paul McCartney, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne, Ringo Starr, Ravi Shanker, and George's son, Dhani.

The 2011 Martin Scorsese documentary Living in the Material World provides a good look at Harrison's quiet but remarkable life and career.

Other Noteworthy November 29 Classic Rock events include...

1933 John Mayall born.

1943 Rascals Felix Cavaliere born.

1947 Ronnie Montrose born.

1951 Boston guitarist Barry Godreau born.

1969 Bob Dylan photo appears on the 2nd Anniversary edition cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.

1976  ZZ Top releases Tejas.

1980 Supertramp records songs for the Paris live album at the Pavillon de Paris.

1982 Foreigner releases Records.

1982 Metallica does its first headlining concert.

1992 U2 Zoo TV special airs on FOX.

1995 Sammy Hagar marries Kari Karte in San Francisco.

1997 Bruce Hornsby does National Anthem before Bulls/Wizards NBA game in Washington.

Bruce Springsteen closes 1999 tour in Minneapolis doing Santa Claus Is Coming To Town with a Santa on stage.

2003 Queen, Peter Gabriel, Eurthymics, Jimmy Cliff and more do AIDS benefit concert in Cape Town, South Africa.

2006 Ten paintings by Syd Barrett bring more than $100,000 in auction of the late Pink Floyd member. 

2006 Original artwork for Rolling Stones lips & tongue logo sells for $470,000 in London auction…

Thanksgiving week 1968 was a great one for Jimi Hendrix fans in New York. $4 was all it took to get a ticket to catch one of his two shows on this night at Philharmonic Hall in New York City, but a seat in one of the first rows would bump the cost up to $7.

The venue was the runner-up choice for promoter Ron Delsner and Hendrix. Their attempt to book Carnegie Hall got rejected - and use of Philharmonic was granted on the condition that the concerts had to include a classical performer. That task fell to a brass quintet with harpsichord virtuoso Fernando Valenti. It was a tough gig that got easier when a restless audience was won-over when Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell joined the group to jam a bit.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 28 include...

1944 Randy Newman born.

1950 Graham Parker born.

1950 Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne band's bassist Rudy Sarzo born.

1962 Soundgarden and Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron born.

1966 Beatles start recording Sgt. Pepper’s.

1974 John Lennon’s last official concert appearance takes place when he joins Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden.

1975 Yes releases Relayer.

1975 Bruce Springsteen makes his UK debut in London's Hammersmith Odeon.

1981 Unruly Rush fans tear gassed after rock throwing erupts when the band's concert is delayed at the Hollywood Sportatorium near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

1992 Black Sabbath awarded star on Hollywood Walk of fame.

1999 Doug Sahm dies of heart attack.

1999 Male strippers dressed as boy scouts appear on stage during Elton John Royal Albert Hall concert.

2015 Slash performs National Anthem with USC Marching band before UCLA football game.

2022 Arlo Guthrie and Alice Brock, the namesake of Alice's Restaurant, share Thanksgiving dinner together for the first time since 1965...

On this day in 1942, Johnny Allen Hendrix entered this world in Seattle, Washington.  His parents renamed him James Marshall Hendrix to honor of his father, James Alan Hendrix and a late uncle, James Marshall Hendrix.  The kid that would be proclaimed "...the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music" didn't begin playing the guitar until he was 15. His first instrument was a ukulele he fished out of a batch of things that were being thrown away by a woman whose house Jimi and his father had been hired to clear out.  Later that year, he bought a $5 acoustic guitar.  From that day on, Hendrix either had a guitar in hand or one very close just about every waking hour.

His first band was named the Velvetones. He got an electric guitar in 1959 and ended up getting dropped by the band after his virtuoso solos started to command all the audience's attention.

Hendrix enlisted in the Army to avoid jail time after having been arrested while riding in a couple of cars that acquaintances had stolen.  While based in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Jimi crossed paths with Billy Cox.  The pair formed a trio with a bass player and dubbed the group the Casuals.  After Jimi was discharged from the Army, they relocated to Clarkesville, Tennessee and shifted band names to the King Kasuals.

Frequent appearances in clubs put the young guitar wizard of the radar of people who brought him to the attention of well connected others, and before long Hendrix was getting offers to back established artists like Wilson Pickett, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke and others.

After moving to New York City, Hendrix landed a spot in the Isley Brothers' touring band.  He spent a good part of 1964 touring with them before jumping to Little Richard's backing band.  A move to Greenwich Village and regular appearances at the Cafe Wha? helped spread the news about what an exceptional guitarist Jimi was.

Animals bass player Chas Chandler caught a set and soon after convinced Hendrix to accompany him to London so Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton could see him play. All were equally impressed.  The rest is history. Tragically, Jimi was only lived long enough to experience four years of it himself.

Other Noteworthy events in Classic Rock on November 27 include...

1965 Ken Kesey holds first Acid test.

1967 Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour.

1969 Jimi Hendrix attends opening night of 4 Rolling Stones concerts at Madison Square Garden.

1970 George Harrison releases All Things Must Pass.
Gentle Giant releases self titled debut album

1970 Kinks release Lola vs The Powermann & The Money-Go-Round.

1971 Alice Cooper releases Killer.

1972 Frank Zappa releases The Gran Wazoo.

1974 Paul & Linda McCartney sing backing vocals during Rod Stewart London concert.

1976 Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys appears on Saturday Night Live.

1980 Allman Brothers release Reach For The Sky.

1991 Freddie Mercury's private funeral is attended by just 35 invitees, including other Queen members and Elton John. His cremated remains are buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in West London.

1995 John Popper of Blues Traveler appears on Rosanne tv show.

1997 A deranged INXS fan attempts suicide by jumping from a balcony with a noose around his neck during the funeral of Michael Hutchence.

2005 Rod Stewart becomes a father again as Penny Lancaster gives birth to a son.

2005 A defense contractor hires Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Stevie Nicks to perform at his daughter's bat mitzvah at the Rainbow Room in New York City...

The legendary power trio Cream with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker did its final concert on this night in 1968 with opening sets from Yes and Rory Gallagher at  Royal Albert Hall in London.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 26 include....

1945 Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie born.

1969 John Lennon in the studio with the other Beatles for the final time mixing You Know My Name (Look Up The Number).

1973 New York Dolls make their UK debut in London.

1976 Sex Pistols release Anarchy In The UK.

1979 Audience in Tempe, Arizona boos Bob Dylan for playing too many religious songs during his concert.

1982 Tina Turner marries Ike Turner.

1988 Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz space craft play a cassette of Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder.

2005 Defense contractor throws party for his daughter in New York that includes performances by Steven Tyler & Joe Perry, Tom Petty, Don Henley & Joe Walsh.  

2010  Willie Nelson is charged with possession of 6 ounces of pot when his tour bus is stopped at border checkpoint west of El Paso.

2016 $6 million in Punk Rock memorabilia burned by late wife of Sex Pistols manager and her son in protest of Punk London cultural program.

2021 Deep Purple releases Turning to Crime covers album...

One of Rocks most unique events took place on this night in 1976 at Winterland in San Francisco when The Band with the help of Bill Graham provided a Thanksgiving dinner-concert that featured a mind boggling number of guest artists that included Eric Clapton,  Ringo Starr, Ronnie Wood, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Dr. John, Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Butterfield and, somewhat oddly, Neil Diamond.  Fortunately, Martin Scorsese was there with a crew to film what would become one of the best concert movies ever released, The Last Waltz.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 25 include...

1965 Kinks release Kontroversy.

1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience plays first London concert.

1971 Doors surviving members announce their intention to continue without Jim Morrison.

1969 John Lennon returns his MBE award to Buckingham Palace to protest UK support of Vietnam War.

1975 Allman Brothers Band plays fund raiser for Jimmy Carter Presidential campaign at Providence, RI Civic Center.

1984 Do They Know It's Christmas benefit single recorded in London includes Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Sting, Bono and Adam Clayton, Bob Geldof, Phil Collins and more under the collective name Band Aid.

1991 Mark Ford replaces Jeff Cease ass lead guitarist in the Black Crowes.

1994 Sheryl Crow does an acoustic set with the Rolling Stones in Miami.

1997 Original Zombies lineup reunites for first time in 30 years for a London concert.

2003 Meat Loaf undergoes heart surgery.

2008 Jeff Beck releases Live At Ronnie Scott’s.

2007 Quiet Riot lead singer Kevin Dubrow's body is found six days following his death from a cocaine overdose in his home six days earlier.

2015 Fire Marshall shuts down LA reunion concert by David Lee Roth’s solo original solo band.

2015 Court dismisses claims against Boston Herald and Brad Delp's widow filed by Tom Sholz after Delp's 2007 suicide.

2016 Former Sex Pistols manager's wife and son burn $6 million of Punk Rock memorabilia in protest of Punk London cultural program.

2022 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at the Fillmore 1997 is released...

 

Until recently, the loss of nearly every major figure in Rock came as a sudden, unexpected shock.  Knowing well before his death that Freddie Mercury's remaining days were dwindling still made news of his passing on this day in 1991 hard to take.  Five years after being diagnosed as having AIDS, this once charismatic titan of a front man publicly acknowledged his illness only the day before bronchial pneumonia related to the disease took his life.   

1941 Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn born. Dunn became the bass guitarist for Booker T & the M.G.'s in 1965, and went on to be featured on hundreds of recording sessions for Stax recording artists, including many that singles and albums he also earned production credits on.

1941 Early Beatles drummer Pete Best born.

1944 Move and Electric Light Orchestra born drummer Bev Bevan born.

1948 Lee Michaels born.

1950 Original Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Bob Burns born.

1966 The Beatles record Strawberry Fields Forever.

1971 Kinks release Muswell Hillbillies.

1976 George Harrison releases 33 1/3.

1991 KISS drummer Eric Carr dies of cancer at 41.  Carr replaced Peter Criss in 1981.

1992 Pink Floyd releases Shine 8 disc set.
1993 Blues guitar great Albert Collins dies of lung cancer at 61.

1997 Stone Temple Pilots Scott Weiland makes solo debut in LA.

2008 Rock Hall Of Fame opens Annex in New York City.

2009 Tom Petty releases Live Anthology…

AC/DC unleashed  For Those About to Rock on this day in 1981. Back In Black  shattered all sorts of records and put the Down Under band into the top ranks of the world's biggest touring bands the previous year, but  multi-week runs in the top spot by the Rolling Stones (Emotional Rescue), Queen (The Game), Bruce Springsteen (The River) and John Lennon & Yoko Ono (Double Fantasy) prevented Brian Johnson's debut album with the group from becoming the group's first #1 album in the US.  For Those About to Rock secure the top spot on the final week of 1981.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 23 include...

1954 Bruce Hornsby born.

1962 The Beatles audition for a BBC performance but get turned down.

1964 The Beatles Story released in US.

1964 BBC bans the Rolling Stones after the group shows up late for the second time.

1968 Led Zeppelin's contract with Atlantic Records firms up.

1972 Filming of Bob Dylan for Pat Garrett movie begins in Durango, Mexico.

1974 Gary Wright leaves Spooky Tooth.

1976 Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested outside Graceland carrying a gun and demanding to see Elvis.

1989 Paul McCartney does his first US concert in 13 years at the LA Forum.

1995 Junior Walker dies of cancer.

1999 Metallica releases S&M.

2009 Eric Clapton plays a Swiss children’s charity event. Autographed guitar raises $150,000.

2009 Genesis Movie Box set released.

2012 Guns N' Roses releases Chinese Democracy...

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...

Pink Floyd released Delicate Sound of Thunder on this day in 1988.  The group's first fully live album was recorded at concerts staged at a multi- night series dates at the Nassau Coliseum  on Long Island in August of the same year.  Various formats of the double lp featured different track sequences.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 21 include...

1967 The Who release The Who Sell Out.

1969 Moody Blues release To Our Children’s Children.

1970 Radio listeners tuned-jn to WBCN 1970 got to hear Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Duane Allman perform in the station's Boston studio together.

1975 KISS Army fan club formed.

1975 Elton John awarded Hollywood Walk Of Fame star.

1980 Don Henley arrested after a naked 16 year-old girl on drugs is found in his house.

1980 Rod Stewart releases Foolish Behavior.

1982 Joni Mitchell marries bass player Larry Klein in her manager's Malibu office.

1984 U2 releases Under A Blood Red Sky.

1988 Jimmy Page does first date on his first solo tour in Birmingham, UK.

1990 Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall have unofficial wedding in Bali.

1991 Aerosmith guests on The Simpsons.

1995 Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, manager Peter Grant dies of a heart attack at 60.

1995 Bruce Springsteen releases Ghost of Tom Joad and opens tour in Brunswick, NJ.

2005 Ozzy Osbourne sings Beatles song In My Life backed by Slash on guitar at concert in Wales.

2005 Hand written Bob Dylan poems sell for $78,000 in New York City auction.

2006 Doors box set Perception released.

2022 Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson dies at 75.

A pair of guitar great's were born on this day. Duane Allman in 1946 and James Gang and Eagles member Joe Walsh on  the following year.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 20 include...

1941 Dr. John (Mac Rebennack) born

1942 Norman Greenbaum born.

1954 Mahogany Rush's Frank Marino born

1973 Fan fills in for Keith Moon after the drummer collapses during Who San Francisco concert.

1975 Keith Moon arrested for disorderly conduct following the Who's North American tour opener in Houston, Texas.

1976 George Harrison & Paul Simon on Saturday Night Live.

1991 Rolling Stones sign Virgin Records deal worth $45 million.

1993 Stone Temple Pilots play Saturday Night Live.

1994 David Crosby gets liver transplant.

1997 Canned Heat's Henry Vestine dies of heart failure.

1997 Live concert in Olean, NY stopped after Ed Kowalczyk is hit by a flying shoe thrown from the crowd on St. Bonaventure College campus.

2003 Rock Hall Of Fame announces George Harrison, Bob Seger, ZZ Top, Traffic, Jackson Browne and Prince as inductees.

2005 Chris Whitley dies of lung cancer.

2007 Eric Clapton releases Crossroads Festival DVD of July 28 2007 Chicago concert.

2020 John Fogerty releases Fogerty's Factory, an album of songs recorded with family members during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.

2022 Elton John performs and live streams the last date of his last US tour at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles...

On this night in 1994, Dave Grohl played drums when Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played You Don't Know How It Feels and Honey Bee on Saturday Night Live.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 19 include...

1960 Guns n’ Roses Matt Sorum born.

1965 A furious Roger Daltrey storms off stage during Who London concert because of sound problems.

1979 Chuck Berry gets released after serving 80 days of a 4 month sentence for tax evasion.

1983 Badfinger's Tom Evans commits suicide.

1984 Kinks release Word Of Mouth.

1994 David Crosby gets a liver transplant in Los Angeles.

1995 Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan among performers at Frank Sinatra's 80th birthday celebration at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

1997 Standing Alone, Paul McCartney's classical production premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

1997 Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder joins the Rolling Stones on Waiting On A Friend during Stones Oakland concert.

1998 Motley Crue opens a merch store in Los Angeles.

2001 Stone Temple Pilots Scott Weiland jailed for 12 hours after police are called in on a dispute between the singer and his wife at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel.

2003 Spooky Tooth and Humble Pie bassist Greg Ridley dies of pneumonia at 61.

2007 Quiet Riot lead singer Kevin DuBrow dies of a cocaine overdose.

2015 Jimmy Page joins Paul Rogers and other musicians paying tribute to him on a version of Rock & Roll at Seattle's Experience Music Project.
2021 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss release Raise The Roof...

Bon Scott and Angus Young were more prominently recognized, but co-founding rhythm guitarist and the elder of the Young brothers, Malcolm, is widely credited as having been the driving force that made AC/DC one of the biggest bands in Rock history.

Born Malcolm Mitchell Young on the sixth day of 1953 in Glasgow, Scotland, Malcolm and his younger brother would become two of  the fifteen members of the Young family that left their native country after a particularly brutal 1962-63 winter to take advantage of relocation incentives for families to move Down Under being offered by Australia.   

The Young brothers formed AC/DC ten years later.  Malcolm remained with the band until a lung cancer diagnosis sidelined him after the Black Ice Tour wrapped up in 2010.    His nephew, Steve Young, would take Malcolm's place as he had during a 1988 break with the group for health reasons. Malcolm's hopes and possibilities of returning to the band were dashed by the subsequent onset of dementia  in 2014.  Malcolm passed away on this day in 2017.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 18 include...

1949 Scorpions Herman Rarebell born.

1950 Graham Parker born.

1950 Doobie Brothers and Clover member John McFee born.

1950 Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake veteran Rudy Sarzo born.

1960 Kim Wilde born.

1962 Metallica’s Kirk Hammett born.

1971 Procol Harum records album with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

1972 Danny Witten of Crazy Horse dies of heroin overdose.

1974 Genesis releases The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.

1974 Ringo Starr releases Goodnight Vienna.

1975 Bruce Springsteen opens European tour at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.

1983 Badfinger’s Tom Evans commits suicide.

1985 Stevie Nicks releases Rock A Little.

1987 U2 opens for themselves disguised as country band in LA.

1990 Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall marry.

1991 U2 releases Achtung Baby!

1992 Black Sabbath gets Hollywood Walk Of Fame star.

1995 The Rolling Stones live stream a concert set for the first time.

1997 AC/DC releases Bonfire box set.

1997 Gary Glitter arrested when child porn is discovered on his computer while it is undergoing repairs.

1997 Metallica releases Reload.

1997 Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions released.

2008 Doors Live At The Martrix released.

2022 Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at the LA Forum April 26, 1969 released.

Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre was born on this day in 1946 in Birmingham. Ironically, the future lead guitarist for the flute fronted Jethro Tull, started out as a flute player but took up guitar soon after.  Barre then learned to play tenor saxophone in just a couple of days of intense practice in order to audition for a sax opening in an early 60's band in London known as the Noblemen. He got the gig. Two name and genre changes later, Barre was playing guitar and flute in the band doing blues based sets under the group name Gethesmane.  They shared a bill with Jethro Tull that ended up fortuitous a few months later when Tull's manager invited Barre to audition to become the lead guitarist of Ian Anderson's band.

He remained with Tull from the Stand Up album in 1969 until Anderson decided to reconstitute Tull without Barre and other members in 2012.  The split was difficult to comprehend for Barre, others in the group and fans, as well.  Martin calls Anderson's decision to dissolve the musical relationship the two had forged, "probably the worst decision that Ian's ever made in his life".  

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 17 include...

1944 Gene Clark of the Byrds born.

1966 Jeff Buckley born.

1970 Elton John records 11/17/70 at WPLJ-FM in New York.

1971 Faces release "A Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse.

1978 An American Prayer, an album featuring Doors music and recordings of poetry Jim Morrison recorded in 1970 is released.

1978 Rod Stewart releases Blondes Have More Fun.

1978 Alice Cooper releases From The Inside.

1979 Jethro Tull’s John Glascock dies following heart surgery.

1986 Kinks release Think Visual.

1980 John Lennon & Yoko Ono release Double Fantasy.

1990 David Crosby breaks leg, ankle and shoulder in motorcycle crash.

1993 Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Chicago White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell arrested for public drunkenness in New Orleans.

1994 Bob Dylan shoots his MTV Unplugged set.

2003 Meat Loaf hospitalized for exhaustion and a viral infection after collapsing during a London concert.

2006 Peter Gabriel given Man Of Peace award by Gorbachev Foundation in Rome.

2006 Bono & The Edge jam with Pearl Jam on Rockin’ In The Free World during Melbourne, Australia concert.

2009 Warren Haynes does encore with Deep Purple at Heineken Hall in Amsterdam.

2009 Paul McCartney releases Goodnight, New York (CitiField concert).

2010 Bruce Springsteen does full hour on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

2017 Bob Seger releases I Knew You When...

The Kinks served up their 12th album on this day in 1973. Preservation Act 1 was a concept album that has been criticized by some for lacking the cohesion of previous and subsequent albums from the Beatles, Who, Pink Floyd, Rush, Genesis, David Bowie and others.  Preservation Act 1 didn't fare better than #177 on the Billboard Album Chart but was well received by a good portion of the group's most avid fans.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 16 include...

1948 Producer Robert "Mutt" Lang born.

1978 Queen has topless bicyclists ride out on stage as the band plays Bicycle during New York City concert.

1985 U2 launches Mother Records.

1987 Lenny Kravitz marries Lisa Bonet (divorce in ’95).

1988 Former Beach Boys manager and father of member Mike Love gets 5 year suspended sentence for bilking the band out of $300k.

1992 Genesis releases The Way We Walk.

1994 Quicksilver Messenger Service's Dino Valente dies.

2002 Rolling Stones play a Texas billionaire's 60th birthday at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas for $2 million.

2005 UK Hall Of Fame inducts Who, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Kinks, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath.

2010 Bruce Springsteen releases multi-disc expanded edition of Darkness On The Edge Of Town.

2010 Beatles songs finally available on iTunes.

2014 Bono injures arm in Central Park bicycle spill. U2 postpones Tonight Show residency.

2017 Tom Petty's private memorial service held for family and friends at LA yoga meditation center.

2019 Bruce Springsteen does a surprise 2 hour set backed by Bobby Bandiera Band with Max Weinberg at a charity event in Asbury Park.

2022 Peter Frampton closes his farewell tour concert in Dusseldorf, Germany by playing George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  Soon after, he announces plans to resume touring.

The Grateful Dead's 10th studio album hit the street on this day in 1978. Co-produced by Little Feat's Lowell George and Jerry Garcia Band bassist John Kahn, Shakedown Street would be the final album featuring Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux. The release coincided with the group's first of just two appearances as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 15 include...

1966 The Doors sign with Elektra Records.

1969 Janis Joplin arrested in Tampa for use of ‘vulgar and obscene’ language during Curtis Hixson Hall concert.

1970 Van Morrison release His Band and The Street Choir.

1971 Grand Funk Railroad releases E Pluribus Funk.

1977 Elvis Costello opens first US tour, San Francisco.

1984 KISS open Animalize tour in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

1986 Keith Richards joins Eric Clapton on Layla and Cocaine at the Ritz in New York City.  

1988 Metallica opens And Justice For All tour in Toledo, Ohio.

1992 Black Sabbath reunites during Ozzy Osbourne concert in Costa Mesa, California on the same day Ozzy announces he will retire from the road, saying, "Who wants to be touring at 46."

2005 Jimmy Buffett Live at Fenway Park DVD released.

2005 Stevie Nicks Cup race run at Melbourne, Australia race course she later records a concert DVD.

2008 Rod Stewart performs at the 60th birthday party for Prince Charles.

2023 Martin Scorsece hosts a private concert and party in tribute to Robbie Robertson. The gathering at the film maker's LA studio includes Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Jason Isbell and actors that worked on Scorcese films scored by the late leader of the Band.

Neil Young released Live Rust on this day in 1979. Recorded at several concerts during Young's 1978 Rust Never Sleeps tour with Crazy Horse.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 14 include...

1948 Styx lead guitarist James Young born.

1952 Bon Jovi bassist Alec John Such born.

1967 Yardbirds lead singer and harmonica player and Renaissance member Keith Relf gets shocked by an ungrounded cord on stage. Tragically, he died in May of 1976 when he was electrocuted while playing his guitar in the basement of his home.

1969 Led Zeppelin starts recording Led Zdppelin III.

1977 KISS opens Alive II tour in Oklahoma City.
1978 Queen releases Jazz.

1983 Ozzy Osbourne releases Bark At The Moon.

1990 Pete Townshend says he is bisexual in Newsweek magazine interview.

1991 Aerosmith inducted into Boston Garden Hall of Fame during Bruins game.

1992 John Cascella of John Mellencamp’s band dies of heart attack in his car on way home from watching pay-for-view telecast of Holyfield-Riddick Bowe fight.

1995 Rolling Stones release Stripped.

2005 Bruce Springsteen releases Born To Run 30^th anniversary collection.

2006 Paul McCartney performs classical concert Ecce Cor Meum at Carnegie Hall.

2006 Kenny Wayne Shepherd releases its 10 Days Out – Blues From The Back Roads.

2006 Neil Young opens series of archived releases with Fillmore East 1970.

2008 ZZ Top releases Live From Texas…

Yellow Submarine, the 1968 animated film featuring members of the Beatles defending the rights of the residents of Pepperland to enjoy music vs the Blue Meanies, villainous characters determined to stamp music out, got its US release on this day.  The film premiered in London several months earlier.  

Original promotion for the movie suggested band members themselves would voice their respective characters in the film,  but voice actors ended-up providing them in all but the closing, which did include John, Paul, George and Ringo. Harrison's voice was ultimately done by two different voice actors.  The second became necessary after the original got arrested and jailed for being AWOL from his British military unit.

A more cohesive film than Magical Mystery Tour had been, the movie was also considered to represent a major advance for several aspects of animated movie making.  Plans for a new version of the film in the early 2000's that would take advantage of the multitude of advances in animation that had taken place since it was made never came to fruition.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock Events on November 13 include...

1947 Marshall Tucker Band lead guitarist and primary songwriter Toy Caldwell born.

1949 Tubes lead guitarist Roger Steen born.

1968 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones buys author AA Milne’s farm is Sussex. England. 

1981 U2's October tour opens in Albany, New York.

1986 Stevie Ray Vaughan announces he is clean and sober.

1992 Elton John draws 90,000 to his first concert in Mexico.

1999 Who does reunion show at House of Blues in Chicago, Eddie Vedder opens.

2007 Led Zeppelin compilation Mothership released.

2016 Leon Russell dies in his sleep in Nashville home.

2015 Dozens die during Paris terror attacks, including many at a concert by Eagles of Death Metal.

2020 Derek & the Dominos 50th anniversary edition released...

One of Rock's most prolific musicians was born on this day in Toronto in 1945. Happy birthday to Neil Young. The future Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young member was afflicted by polio at the age of six that caused partial paralysis on one side of his body. After his recovery, Young's family moved to Winnipeg, where Neil developed his interest in music by listening to radio. 

By the early 1960s, Young had become proficient enough on guitar and piano to get into local bands. One of the groups, the Squires, did regional gigs that required enough travel that Young dropped out of school. While in that band, Young crossed paths with Stephen Stills when the Squires opened for The Company, a group that included Stephen Stills. Young and Stills hit it off and Neil got Stills' address. Soon after, Neil landed a spot in the Mynah Birds, a group fronted by Rick James that also included future Buffalo Springfield member Bruce Palmer on bass.

After meeting fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell, Young got into honing his songwriting and playing solo acoustic gigs in clubs. Neil headed to New York with hopes of getting signed by a label. While there, he sought-out Stills only to find out Stephen had gone to LA. Soon after returning to Canada, Young and Palmer decided southern California was the place to be. The pair went in on buying a 1953 hearse and headed to LA. After a week without being able to locate Stills, Young and Palmer decided to go to San Francisco. 

While stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard, Stills, who was driving a van with Richie Furay onboard, noticed the hearse with Canadian plates and then recognized its driver was Young. Maneuvering to a spot he could signal Young to pull to the curbside led to the reunion that paved the way to the formation of Buffalo Springfield.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 12 include...

1947 Blue Oyster Cult guitarist, singer, vocalist Buck Dharma (Donald Roser) was born on this day in 1947.

1970 Jim Morrison does his last concert with the Doors, New Orleans.

1971 Genesis releases Nursery Cryme.

1972 Yes releases Fragile.

1987 Sly Stone arrested for delinquent child support at comeback concert in LA.

1990 IRS seizes Willie Nelson home and golf course.

1990 Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones suffers broken bones when struck by a car after his had broken down outside of London.

2005 Paul McCartney concert beamed to International Space Station.

2006 Brian Johnson of AC/DC wins UK car race reality show after clipping car driven by an R&B singer.

2008 Bob Dylan visits the childhood home of Neil Young while in Winnipeg for a concert.  

2008 Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience found dead in a Portland, Oregon hotel room.

2016 Neil Young spends his birthday playing for protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline at their encampment at Standing Rock, North Dakota.

2021 Eric Clapton releases The Lady In The Balcony: The Lockdown Sessions...

Tragedy struck the Allman Brothers Band again on this day when bass player Berry Oakley lost his life in a motorcycle crash just over a year and only a few blocks from where guitarist Duane Allman was killed on his bike in Macon, Georgia.  The Allman Brothers Band's brilliant bassist was just 24.

Oher Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 11 include...

1944 Yardbirds rhythm guitarist, bassist Chris Dreja born.

1947 Black Oak Arkansas bassist Pat Daugherty born.

1950 Ides of March and Survivor's Jim Petrick born.

1954 Marshall Crenshaw born.

1965 Velvet Underground debuts live at a high school dance held in Summit, New Jersey.

1965 The final recording session for the Beatles Rubber Soul album takes place.

1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono release Two Virgins.

1969 Jim Morrison arrested for rowdy behavior on flight from LA to Phoenix to see a Rolling Stones concert.

1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono released Plastic Ono Band.

1976 KISS releases Rock and Roll Over.

1978 Grateful Dead play Saturday Night Live.

1989 Joe Cocker & Melissa Etheridge do concert in Berlin as wall between East & West Berlin comes down.

1991 Genesis releases We Can't Dance.

1997 Metallica does free concert for 30,000 in Philadelphia parking lot.

2005 Billy Joel announces an end to his 8 year touring hiatus.

2006 Mick Jagger's father, Joe, dies at 93 of pneumonia.

2008 Peter Gabriel launches We7.com online music site.

2009 Jo Wood granted divorce from Ron Wood of the Stones after 24 years of marriage.

2011 Black Sabbath announces reunion plans.

2014 Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl & Zac Brown trigger controversy when they perform Fortunate Son at DC Veteran's Day concert.

2014 Private jet carrying Bono to Berlin loses hatch before landing.

2017 Acoustic Martin guitar Bob Dylan played at Concert for Bangledesh & Rolling Thunder review auctioned for $397,500.

2017  U2 does Trafalgar Square concert on eve of MTV Europe Awards presentations in London.
2022 Bruce Springsteen releases Only The Strong Survive...

One of the earliest Rock concept albums hit record stores on this day in 1967 when the Moody Blues released Days of Future Passed. The album represented one of the most about-faces in music history. Primarily a rhythm and blues band group, the Moody Blues achieved moderate success with its debut album's cover of Go Now that featured Denny Laine on guitar and as lead singer.

The group's label wanted the band to follow that up by doing an electric version of Antonín Dvo?ák's 9th Symphony with orchestral backing as a way to demonstrate some recently developed recording techniques. The Moody's were more interested in a record that would showcase the group's new lead singer and guitarist, Justin Hayward. The album managed to do both. The electric and orchestra portions were recorded separately and then mixed together. Airplay of Nights in White Satin and Tuesday Afternoon propelled sales of the album, which went on to earn recognition as one of the most innovative records of its era. 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 10 include...

1948 Emerson Lake & Palmer's Greg Lake is born.

1968 Jefferson Airplane appear on the  Smothers Brothers TV show. Grace Slick, in black face, gives black power salute.

1975 Neil Young releases Zuma.

1978 Clash releases Give ‘Em Enough Rope.

1979 Highway To Hell becomes AC/DC first million seller.

1986 Bruce Springsteen releases Tracks Live 1975-85 box set

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1992 Axl Rose convicted on assault and property damage charges during '91 St. Louis Guns N Roses concert.

2009 Steven Tyler does Walk This Way with Joe Perry Project at Fillmore in New York.

2016 Day 1 of David Bowie's art collection auction in London nets more than $30 million.

 2016 Leonard Cohen dies at 82, just a month after releasing his last album.

2017 Billy Gibbons joins Guns N' Roses on Patience during Houston concert...

The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine published on this day in 1967 in San Francisco with John Lennon on the cover.  Started by former University of California, Berkeley student Jann Wenner and Jazz critic Ralph Gleason, the publication set out to be a music and social trends barometer and became the proving ground for a number of notable writers including Hunter Thompson, Lester Bangs, Cameron Crowe and Greil Marcus, as well as several from the great photographer ranks.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 9 include...

1941 Creedence Clearwater Revival's Tom Fogerty born.

1948 Blue Oyster Cult founding bassist Joe Bouchard is born in Watertown, NY. 

1948 REO Speedwagon drummer Alan Gratzer is born.

1954 Iron Maiden's Dennis Stratton born.

1961 Future Beatles manager Brian Epstein see the group live for the first time at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono in a London gallery.

1967 Roger McGuinn boots David Crosby out of the Byrds.

1970 Tedeschi-Trucks Susan Tedeschi born.

1973 Billy Joel releases Piano Man.

1975 David Bowie sings Fame on Cher’s TV show.

1976 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers release their debut album.

1982 Squeeze breaks up after London farewell concert.

1985 Aerosmith releases Done WIth Mirrors.

1998 Kingsmen members win back royalties from Louie Louie in court decision.

1998 Robbie Robertson joins Dreamworks films as creative ambassador.

2004 John Fogerty releases Blue Moon Swamp.

2010 Fire destroys warehouse storing Neil Young’s memorabilia in Santa Clara, California.

2015 Allen Toussaint dies of a heart attack at 77 after performing in Madrid, Spain.

2017 Metallica, Dead & Company, Dave Matthews Band raise $15 million in AT&T Park benefit for California wildfire victims...

Just three months in the making, Led Zeppelin IV got released on this day in 1971. Produced by Jimmy Page and recorded at the country estate known as Hedley Grange, the album containing Stairway to Heaven would go on to sell more than 40 million copies.  The cover art for the release was an oil painting Robert Plant picked up at an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire, UK.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 8 include...

1944 Bonnie Bramlett born.

1946 The Move, Wizard &  Electric Light Orchestra multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Roy Wood born.

1949 Bonnie Raitt born.

1967 How I Won the War film with John Lennon opens in New York City.

1968 Cynthia Lennon granted divorce from John.

1970 Jim Morrison records the poems released on An American Prayer.

1971 Led Zeppelin IV (ZOSO) released.

1974 Styx releases Man Of Miracles.

1975 David Bowie does Fame on the Cher TV show.

1980  KISS opens an 11 concert Unmasked tour in Australia and New Zealand.

1994 Eagles release Hell Freezes Over.

1995 Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Pepper breaks his arm playing softball, tour delayed.

1985 Sting's Bring on the Night concert film opens in the US.

1998 Steve Miller and George Thorogood play benefit against MD for 20,000 bikers led by Jay Leno and Peter Fonda . 

2005 Live 8 concerts DVD released.

2006 Bob Seger opens tour in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

2009 Charlie Daniels honored on Nashville's Walk of Fame.

Pink Floyd released Ummagumma on this day in 1969. The group's fourth album and first double disc included live recordings from a Birmingham club, a college date in Manchester and songs written by each group member that were recorded at Abbey Road Studios.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 7 include...

1943 Joni Mitchell born.

1969 The Rolling Stones open their 6th US tour in Fort Collins, Colorado.

1980 Eagles release Eagles Live.

1983 U2 releases Under A Blood Red Sky.

1983 Yes releases 90125.

1986 Jason Newsted makes debut with Metallica.

1988 John Fogerty found innocent of plagiarism charge filed by his own record company.

1989 Eric Clapton releases Journeyman.

1991 Frank Zappa tests positive for prostate cancer.

1995 Alice In Chains release Alice In Chains.

1998 Metallica’s Kirk Hammett has emergency appendectomy in London.

2002 A dozen arrests made when Vancouver Guns N' Roses fans riot during a concert delay due to Axl Rose plane landing late.

2003 David Gilmour awarded Commander of the British Empire honor by Queen Elizabeth.

2006 Genesis announces reunion tour.

2006 Foo Fighters release Skin And Bones.

2006 Eric Clapton & JJ Cale release The Road To Escondito.

2008 Van Morrison does Astral Weeks album live at Hollywood Bowl.

2015 Indianapolis Colts owner pays $2.4 million for the drum head on the kit Ringo Starr played when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.

2020 Rock Hall Of Fame inducts the Doobie Brothers, T. Rex, Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode during Covid pandemic delayed ceremony telecast by HBO. 

Glenn Frey was born on this day in Detroit in 1948. The future Eagles guitarist, singer, songwriter and close collaborator with drummer, singer and songwriter Don Henley would start playing piano, but soon switched to guitar. His first band was called the Subterraneans. It was followed by an outfit known as The Four of Us. Frey later became a member of the Mushrooms.

Bob Seger got acquainted with Frey in 1966 and was impressed enough to recommend giving Frey's band a shot at recording on a new label Seger and his manager had recently signed. Seger co-produced the recording session. That also led to Glenn playing guitar and doing background vocals on Bob's early hit Ramblin', Gamblin' Man, and nearly landed him a place in Seger's band - a move Frey's mother apparently nixed after learning his group indulged in getting high.

Frey and his girlfriend moved to the West coast in 1968. Glenn got introduced to J. D. Souther and formed the duo Long branch Pennywhistle. On getting word that wanted a backup band, Frey, Southern and future Eagles Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner filled that role. Frey met Don Henley while his duo and Henley were both on the same small label. Not long after, the Eagles hatched. Frey and Henley would go on to become among the most prolific and acclaimed songwriting partners ever.

Other Noteworthy classic rock events on November 6 include...

1965 Fillmore West opens in San Francisco. 1965 Rolling Stones appear on Shindig TV show.

1970 Aerosmitth does its first live concert at aa high school in Mendon, MA.

1981 Cars release Shake It  Up.

1982 Rod Stewart releases Absolutely Live. 1990 Steve Winwood releases Refugees Of the Heart.

1991 Scorpions release Crazy World.

1993 Pearl Jam does benefit to preserve sacred Apache Indian grounds in Mesa, Arizona.

1998 Aerosmith members join Cheap Trick during Minneapolis concert on Train Kept’a Rolling.

2001 Mick Jagger releases Visions Of A Paradise.

2008 Joe Walsh plays National Anthem before Lakers-Clippers game in LA.

2013  A realtor donates $250,000 to Stand Up For Heroes benefit for an acoustic guitar and a guitar lesson from Bruce Springsteen and Roger Waters performs with Wounded Warriors musicians and singers at New York benefit.

2014 Police arrest AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd after search of his New Zealand home in a murder for hire investigation.   

2017 University of Georgia marching band does halftime Gregg Allman tribute medley...

Canadian Rocker Brian Adams was born on this day in 1959. It's been pointed out that if he'd actually gotten his first guitar in the summer of '69 as the song claims, he would have been just 10 years old. Turns out, he did get his first at that age, but the one he latched onto at the five and dime in Ottawa, Canada he bought in 1970. Soon after, Adams was in his first band. His first break came when, at just 15, he replaced Nick Gilder in the band Sweeney Todd.  A big, and to this day, fan of Ritchie Blackmore, Adams honed his chops on the music of Deep Purple, Peter Frampton's work in Humble Pie and Marc Bolan's with T. Rex, but his songwriting skills are what propelled Adams into the ranks of the most sucessful solo musicians in rock history. To date, Adams has sold close to 100 million albums.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 5 include...

1931 Ike Turner born.

1941 Art Garfunkel born.

1946 Gram Parsons born.
1948 Van der Graaf Generator's Peter Hammill born.
1948 Early 1970's Guess Who guitarist Donnie McDougall born.
1956 Night Ranger founding lead guitarist Jeff Watson born.

1961 Counting Crows David Bryson born.

1972 Grateful Dead release Europe '72.

1977 Ozzy Osbourne quits Black Sabbath. Rejoins a few weeks later.
1979 Mick and Bianca Jagger's divorce is finalized.

1984 REO Speedwagon releases Wheels Are Turnin’.

1991  Stevie Ray Vaughan’s The Sky Is Crying released.

1994 Patti Smith’s husband Fred Sonic Smith dies of a heart attack.

1995 A Wizard of Oz production at Lincoln Center in New York City features Roger Daltrey as the Tin Man, Jackson Browne as the Scarecrow and includes appearances by  Ry Cooder, David Sanborn and Ronnie Spector in other roles.

1995 Made in Heaven, Queen's first post Freddie Mercury album, gets released.

1999 Van Halen announces the end of the Gary Cherone era.

2000 Eric Clapton releases One More Car: One More Driver.

2005 Link Wray dies of heart failure.

2005 Ted Nugent’s Wanted, Ted Or Alive premiers on Outdoor Life Network.

2010 Life, the Keith Richards autobiography tops the New York Times best sellers list.

2014 Cream veteran Jack Bruce is laid to rest.  
2021 Jethro Tull releases Benefit expanded anniversary edition album...

The self-titled debut album by the Allman Brothers Band got released on this day in 1969. Because the group had been doing the tracks on it live, It took the band a mere two weeks to record and mix the ground breaking LP at the Atlantic Records Studios in New York CIty.  They had hoped to land Tom Dowd to produce the sessions, but previous commitments prevented the legendary producer from being fully available so the studio's engineer Adrian Barber, whose credits included work with the Rascals, and Velvet Underground that year and Buffalo Springfield in 1968, was the defacto producer, a decision that left the group disappointed with the results.  Dowd made it up to them by producing just about every Allman Brothers recording and Gregg Allman solo that followed.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 4 include...

1940 Delbert McClinton born.

1954 Squeeze's Chris Difford born.

1956 The Pretenders James Honeyman Scott born.

1970 David Bowie releases The Man Who Sold The World.

1973 Pink Floyd and Soft Machine perform at a benefit concert for Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt who was stricken with paralysis in a fall.

1975 David Bowie debuts Golden Years on the Soul Train TV show.

1976 Led Zeppelin's Song Remains The Same movie premiers.

1976 Bruce Springsteen closes out a 6 night run at the Palladium in New York City.

1977 The Last Waltz movie premiers.

1977 Rod Stewart releases Foot Loose and Fancy Free.

1978 Van Morrison plays Saturday Night Live.

1978 Bassist Greg Reeves sues Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young over royalties he claimed he was due from the Deja Vu album.

1991 Rock Hall Of Fame announces the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Yardbirds, Sam and Dave, Booker T. @ the MG's, the Isley Brothers and Johnny Cash will be inducted.

1997 Billy Preston starts serving sentence for parole violation after positive drug test.

2010 U2, Metallica, AC/DC win Billboard Touring Awards and Rush gets Legend Of Live honor in New York City.

2013 Janis Joplin is finally awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...

2022 Billy Joel releases Live at Yankee Stadium June 22 & 23, 1990...

On this day in 1991 the Grateful Dead, Journey, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, John Fogerty and Joan Baez performed at the Polo Field in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in tribute to promoter Bill Graham, who lost his life in a helicopter crash following a Huey Lewis and the News concert he'd produced at the Concord Pavilion the prior week.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 3 include...

1945 Deep Purple early bassist Nick Simper born.

1964 The mayor of Cleveland, Ohio bans rock concerts after a teenage fan falls out of the balcony during a Rolling Stones concert in the city.

1967 Filming of Magical Mystery Tour wraps up.

1972 James Taylor & Carly Simon get married in her New York City apartment.

1977 Elton John announces his short-lived retirement from concerts during a London show.

1980 Neil Young releases Hawks and Doves.

1988 U2 Rattle & Hum movie premiers.

1992 Bon Jovi releases Keep The Faith.

1992 The Grateful Dead announce the end of their live New Year's Eve concerts series.

1992 Bob Dylan settles suit against Hootie & The Blowfish over unauthorized use of lyrics on I Only Want To be With You.

2000 Bon Jovi opens US leg of Crush world tour in Charlotte, NC.

2002 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inducts Bob Dylan.

2009 Capricorn Records HQ in Macon, GA sold to at auction to bank for $360,000.

2009 Paul McCartney: A Life published.

2010 Bruce Springsteen plays 3 songs during Stand Up For Heroes benefit in New York City, backed by Max Weinberg Big Band with Roy Bittan on piano…

Cream, the earth shaking power trio featuring Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, released its highly anticipated second album on this day in 1967. Recorded in New York City, the 11 track lp produced by Mountain member Felix Pappalardi went on to become one of 1967's best.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 2 include...

1944 Nice and Emerson Lake & Palmer keyboard wizard Keith Emerson born.

1945 J.D. Souther born.

1947 Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull born.

1963 London Daily Mirror coins the word Beatlemania in a review.

1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival releases Willie and the Poorboys.

1973 Bob Dylan starts recording Planet Waves.

1973 Ringo Starr releases Ringo.

1978 Police release Outlandos De Amour.

1979 Mick Jagger and Bianca split.

1979 Quadrophenia movie premiers.

1982 Tom Petty releases Long After Dark.

1987 George Harrison releases Cloud Nine.

1992 Neil Young releases Harvest Moon..

1993 Santana releases Sacred Fire.

1995 Pretenders Chrissie Hynde appears on Friends.

2004 Eric Clapton awarded CBE in Buckingham Palace.

2006 Rod Stewart and Rachel Hunter divorce

2007 Led Zeppelin's reunion concert postponed when Jimmy Page breaks a finger.

2008 Bob Dylan visits Neil Young's childhood home while in Winnipeg for a concert.

2010 $265,000 paid for Fender Duo-Sonic guitar Jimi Hendrix played while with the Isley Brothers in 1964…

The Grateful Dead released their second album of 1970 and their 5th studio album overall on this day in 1970. American Beauty included only three songs that were not Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter collaborations, Phil Lesh's Box of Rain, Bob Weir's Sugar Magnolia and Operator, the only song keyboard player Ron McKernan wrote and sang on a studio album during his years with the band.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on November 1 include...

1946 Family, Traffic and Blind Faith veteran Ric Grech born.
1947 Meat Loaf song writing collaborator Jim Steinman born

1963 Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen born.
1963 The Beatles open their first UK headlining tour.

1965 Fans rush the stage during a Rolling Stones concert in Rochester, NY, Police shut the event down.

1969 The Faces sign with Warner Brothers Records.

1971 Billy Joel releases Cold Spring Harbor.

1971 Allman Brothers Band plays In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, Stormy Monday and Statesboro Blues at Duane Allman's funeral.

1974 Scorpions release Fly To The Rainbow.

1975 Paul McCartney and Wings open an Australian tour.

1977 Queen releases News of The World.

1978 Eric Clapton releases Backless.

1979 Aerosmith release A Night In The Ruts.

1979 Bob Dylan opens his Slow Train Coming tour in San Francisco.

1980 Joe Lynn Turner joins Deep Purple.

1983 Bob Dylan releases Infidels.

1986 Roger Waters attempts to legally dissolve the name Pink Floyd.

1994 Tom Petty releases Wildflowers.

1997 Metallica reaches out of court settlement with Iowa fan injured during 1993 concert.

2003 Bruce Springsteen and actor Michael J. Fox do Light of Day together during a Parkinsons's disease benefit concert.

2004 Musician, producer and Grand Funk Railroad manager Terry Knight is stabbed to death by his daughter's boyfriend..

2008 Jimmy Carl Black, drummer with  Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, dies of lung cancer.

2010 Royal Mint releases John Lennon coin…