On November 18th in Rock and Roll history: in 1972 Danny Whitten, guitarist for Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse died at 29 years old of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles; 1974 Genesis released their sixth album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway which was their last album with Peter Gabriel. The album would later go Gold sixteen years after its initial release; >>>> in 1975 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off their first tour of Europe at London’s Hammersmith Odeon; >>>> in 1978 Billy Joel reach the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the first time with 52nd Street as it began the first of eight non-consecutive weeks on top; >>>> in 1993 Nirvana taped their appearance for MTV Unplugged at Sony Music Studios in New York City. It aired the following month & the following year it entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at number one; >>>> in 1993 Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder was arrested in New Orleans for public drunkenness & disturbing the peace at a bar after a fight with a waiter. Chicago White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell who was with Vedder was knocked unconscious; >>>> in 1994 The Rolling Stones became the first major band to have a segment of a concert broadcast live on the internet with 20 minutes of their concert at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas being broadcast; >>>> in 2001 R.E.M. made a guest appearance on The Simpsons performing “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” in Homer Simpson’s garage; >>>> and in 2003 composer Michael Kamen, who worked with such artists as Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton, Def Leppard, Metallica, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Queen, Queensryche, Rush & Sting died of a heart attack in London. He was 55 years old. The Rock and Roll celebrity birthday persons for November 18th includes: Johnny Mercer - songwriter whose more than 1,500 songs include such classics as “One for My Baby” and “Blues in the Night,” was born in Savannah, GA in 1909; Hank Ballard – Doo Wop singer born in 1936; Herman Rarebell-guitarist for Scorpions born in 1949; and John McFee - guitarist with Clover, the Doobie Brothers, and Elvis Costello born in 1953.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:47:25 +0000