BORN ON NOVEMBER 15
1919 – Carol Bruce, American big band singer (d. 2007)
1928 – C. W. McCall, American singer-songwriter
1928 – Seldon Powell, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 1997)
1929 – Joe Hinton, American singer (d. 1968)
1932 – Petula Clark, English actress and singer
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (Billy Ward and His Dominoes and The Drifters) (d. 1972)
1936 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1937 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)
1939 – W. C. Clark, American singer and guitarist
1941 – Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Steeleye Span)
1945 – Frida Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer (ABBA)
1949 - Steve Fossen, bassist (Heart)
1954 – Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sweet Comfort Band and Allies)
1955 – Georgina Born, English bass player and anthropologist (Henry Cow)
1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1957 – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer (The Tonight Show Band)
1968 – Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (Elysian Fields, Lovage, and La Mar Enfortuna)
1970 – Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Logan Whitehurst, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Velvet Teen) (d. 2006)
1980 – Ace Young, American singer-songwriter
1986 – Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter (Of Mice & Men, Sky Eats Airplane, and Glass Cloud)
DIED ON NOVEMBER 15
1983 – John Grimaldi, English musician, songwriter and artist (b. 1955)
2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 15
1959 - Three ex-members of the Quarrymen — later to become known as the Beatles’ John, Paul, and George — audition for a British talent program called TV Star Search at the Hippodrome Theatre in Lancashire, appearing as “Johnny and the Moondogs” and performing two Buddy Holly songs: “Think It Over” and “It’s So Easy.”
Unfortunately, the trio is forced to return to Liverpool the same night, having no money to rent a hotel room, and therefore missing out on the next round of auditions.
1964 - While on tour, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones is admitted to Chicago’s Passavant Hospital for pneumonia, having reached a temperature of 105. He will miss the last four dates of the Stones’
US tour.
1965 - The Rolling Stones make their first appearance on NBC-TV’s rock variety show Hullabaloo, performing their hit “Get Off Of My Cloud.”
1968 - Janis Joplin performs her last gig with Big Brother and the Holding Company at New York’s Hunter College.
1969 - During tonight’s Janis Joplin concert in Tampa, FL, a policemen tries to use a bullhorn to control a crowd that had left its seats and begun to move around, prompting Joplin to object: “Don’t fuck with those people! Hey, mister, what’re you so uptight about? Did you buy a $5 ticket?” The cop responds by telling the singer to inform her crowd that they need to be seated, she replies, “I’m not telling them shit.” Janis left the stage after the concert,
calling the cop a “son of a bitch” and threatening to kick his face in, leading her to be arrested in her dressing room on a charge of publicly using “vulgar and indecent language.” After posting a $504 bail, the charges are later dropped.
1969 - Hamburg, Germany’s famous rock and roll venue, the Star Club, announces it will permanently close its doors at the end of the month.
1969 - The Beatles’ last photographic session produces today’s cover of Rolling Stone. On the same day, obsessive fans looking for “Paul Is Dead” clues on album covers and in songs push two previous Beatles albums, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, back onto the Billboard album charts.
1972 - Harry Chapin becomes the proud father of his first child, Joshua Burke, in New York City, an event that would eventually inspire him to put his wife’s poem, “Cat’s In The Cradle,” to music.
1974 - The Faces release “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)”
1978 - Echo & the Bunnymen made their performance debut in Liverpool, England.
1988 - Metallica’s U.S. tour for “And Justice For All” opened in Toledo, OH, with Queensryche opening.
2000 - Michael Abram, the Liverpool native who broke into George Harrison’s home and stabbed him in an incident earlier in the year, is found not guilty by reason of insanity at Oxford Crown Court. Abram is ordered confined to a mental hospital for an indefinite period of time.
2006 - U2 won a court battle over allegedly stolen Bono memororabilia. The items, an iconic Stetson hat, a pair of metal earrings, a green sweat shirt and a pair of black trousers, were in the possession of a former stylist.
2007: Glasgow, Scotland native Kenneth Donnell pays 83,000 pounds (approximately $122,000 US dollars) for two tickets for Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion at London’s O2 Arena. The purchase, which includes attending the band rehearsal, was the result of an auction for a children’s charity.
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