Music Almanac: November 26
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- 1917 - Nesuhi Ertegun (producer, executive at Atlantic) (d. 1989)
- 1924 - Michael Holliday (d. 1963)
- 1933 - Robert Goulet (d. 2007)
- 1939 - Tina Turner (73)
- 1944 - Jean Terrell (Supremes) (68)
- 1944 - Alan Henderson (Them) (68)
- 1945 - John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) (67)
- 1946 - Bert Ruiter (Focus) (66)
- 1948 - John Rossall (Glitter Band) (64)
- 1949 - Martin Lee (Brotherhood of Man) (63)
- 1962 - Linda Davis (50)
- 1964 - Adam Gaynor (Matchbox 20) (48)
- 1965 - Bernard Allison (47)
- 1967 - John Stirratt (Wilco) (45)
- 1970 - Ronald Jones (Flaming Lips) (42)
- 1974 - Jamie Jones (All 4 One) (38)
- 1976 - Joe Nichols (36)
- 1978 - Alan Henderson (Motion City Soundtrack (34)
- 1981 - Natasha Beddingfield (31)
- 1984 - Benjamin Wysocki (Fray) (28)
Deaths
- 1956 - Tommy Dorsey - Choking (51)
- 1973 - John Rostill (Shadows) - Electrocuted by guitar due to faulty grounding (31)
- 2003 - Soulja Slim (born James Tapp, Jr.) - Murdered (25)
- 2003 - James Carter (amateur singer whose 1959 recording of O Lazarus opened O Brother Where Art Thou) (77)
- 1968 - Cream played their final concert at Royal Albert Hall in London.
- 1969 - John Lennon had his last session with the Beatles mixing the song You Know My Name (Look Up My Number).
- 1973 - The New York Dolls made their U.K. debut in London.
- 1976 - Kevin Godley and Lol Creme left 10cc to become a duo.
- 1979 - Bob Dylan has a bad show in Tempe, AZ when he plays mostly gospel music and gets booed by the crowd. Dylan berated the audience and refused to play an encore.
- 1988 - Pink Floyd became the first rock band to be played in space when the cosmonauts of Soyuz 7 took a cassette of their album The Delicate Sound of Thunder.
- 2002 - The Statler Brothers played their final show in Salem, VA.
Marriages
- 1960 - Hawkshaw Hawkins and Jean Shepard
- 1982 - Miles Davis and Cicely Tyson
- 2005 - Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman
Recorded
- 1962 - Please Please Me, Ask Me Why - Beatles
Released
- 1976 - Anarchy in the U.K. - Sex Pistols (single)
- 2002 - Does This Look Infected? - Blink-182
Broadcasts
- 1967 - Ed Sullivan Show (CBS) - Beatles (video for Hello Goodbye)
- 1975 - Supersonic (U.K.) - Slade, Gary Glitter, Leo Sayer, Troggs
