Today in music history- November 13, 1973- Jerry Lee Lewis Jr was killed in a car accident near Hernando, Mississippi. Lewis had been working as the drummer in his fathers band. 1982- Men At Work started a 15-week run at #1 on the US album chart with their debut album Business As Usual, which went on to sell over five million copies in the US. 2000- The Beatles launched their first official website thebeatles. The site went live on the same day as the release of their retrospective Compilation 1 album. 2004- Rap artist Ol Dirty Bastard, (real name Russell Jones), collapsed and died at a Manhattan recording studio in New York aged 35. A spokesman for his record company, said the rapper, had complained of chest pains, was dead by the time paramedics reached him. ODB was a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:44:50 +0000
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