Music Almanac: November 10

Miranda Lambert

Birthdays

• 1921 - Onie Wheeler (d. 1984)
• 1928 - Ennio Morricone (84)
• 1929 - Marilyn Bergman (83)
• 1939 - Tommy Facenda (73)
• 1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch (d. 1999)
• 1944 - Tim Rice (68)
• 1945 - Donna Fargo (67)
• 1946 - Bill Bryson (Desert Rose Band) (66)
• 1947 - Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson) (65)
• 1947 - Dave Loggins (65)
• 1947 - Glen Buxton (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
• 1950 - Bram Tchaikovsky (born Peter Bramall) (62)
• 1950 - Ronnie Hammond (Atlanta Rhythm Section) (d. 2011)
• 1952 - Pat Severs (Pirates of the Mississippi) (60)
• 1954 - Mario Cipollina (Huey Lewis & the News) (58)
• 1957 - Chris Joyce (Silverchair) (55)
• 1957 - Junior Giscombe (55)
• 1958 - Frank Maudsley (A Flock of Seagulls) (54)
• 1965 - David Hawes (Catherine Wheel) (47)
• 1966 - Steve Mackey (Pulp) (46)
• 1967 - Andrew Vowles (Massive Attack) (45)
• 1968 - Chris Cagle (44)
• 1968 - Steve Brookstein (44)
• 1969 - Paul "Kermit" Leverage (Black Grape) (43)
• 1970 - Warren G (born Warren Griffin III) (42)
• 1970 - Derry Brownson (EMF) (42)
• 1970 - U-God (born Lamont Hawkins) (Wu-Tang Clan) (42)
• 1973 - Jacqui Abbott (Beautiful South) (39)
• 1975 - Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World) (37)
• 1978 - Eve (born Eve Jeffers) (34)
• 1978 - Drew McConnell (Babyshambles) (34)
• 1979 - Chris Joannou (Silverchair) (33)
• 1983 - Miranda Lambert (29)

Deaths

• 1973 - Stringbean (born David Akeman) - Murdered (58)
• 1990 - Ronnie Dyson - Heart failure (40)
• 1995 - Curly Fox (country fiddler) (85)
• 1997 - Tommy Tedesco (L.A. session guitarist) - Lung cancer (67)
• 2002 - Tommy Griffith (Funk Brothers) (66)
• 2006 - Gerald Levert - Combination of prescription medication and over-the-counter drugs (40)
• 2008 - Miriam Makeba - Heart attack (76)

On This Day

• 1955 - While at a DJ convention, Mae Boren Axton played her new song Heartbreak Hotel for Elvis Presley.
• 1958 - Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls were injured in a car crash where their driver was killed.
• 1966 - The English press broke the news that there would be no more Beatles tours.
• 1967 - The Beatles shot three promotional videos for their single Hello Goodbye. They couldn't be played on British TV because of lip-synching restrictions by the musicians union.
• 1973 - John Lennon asked for Phil Spector's help on an album of rock-and-roll covers.
• 1984 - Frankie Goes to Hollywood set a U.K. record for most advanced copies ordered of an album. 1,099,500 copies of Welcome to the Pleasure Dome were ordered.
• 1986 - Gordon Lightfoot received the Canadian Hall of Fame Award from Bob Dylan.
• 1988 - Steve Millers opened his first tour in six years in Burlington, VT.
• 1992 - Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses is found guilty of assault and property damage after inciting a riot at a 1991 concert in Maryland Heights, MO. He is put on probation and ordered to donate $10,000 each to five charities.
• 1994 - Robert Plant and Jimmy Page performed Stairway to Heaven on a Japanese TV program, saying it is the last time they will play the song. It wasn't.
• 2003 - A Johnny Cash tribute concert was held in Nashville with Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson.
• 2003 - Tommy Thompson of Chic and the Power Station announced that he had renal cancer.
• 2004 - Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) received the Man for Peace prize from Mikhail Gorbachev in Rome.
• 2007 - The mother of Kanye West died from complications from plastic surgery. Her passing had a profound effect on West's music.

Recorded

• 1973 - Planet Waves - Bob Dylan (completed)

Released

• 1958 - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Platters (single)
• 1958 - 16 Candles - Crests (single)
• 1958 - Maybe You'll Be There - Lee Andrews & the Hearts (single)
• 1967 - Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues (single)
• 1973 - Rock On - David Essex (single)
• 1978 - Give 'Em Enough Rope - Clash (U.K. release)
• 1986 - Live 1975-1985 - Bruce Springsteen

Broadcasts

• 1978 - Rock Goes to College (U.K.) - AC/DC