Rock 'n' Roll History for
November 7


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1958 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
20-year-old Eddie Cochran makes his UK chart debut with "Summertime Blues" which will peak at #18. The song had already reached its highest spot of #8 on America's Billboard chart a week earlier. Cochran sang both the vocal and bass vocal, played all the guitar parts and added the hand clapping.

1963 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
The Beatles made their first and only appearance in Ireland when they played two gigs in Dublin, at the Adelphi Cinema on Middle Abbey Street. At the end of the show the band had to escape the crowd by hiding in an Evening Herald newspaper delivery van. Although thousands of fans turned out to see them, the local press was anything but kind in their reviews, with one columnist writing about his discomfort at having to wait among an audience of teenagers until "at last, four hairy youngsters appeared onstage to be greeted with shrieks and whistles. Three of them walloped electric guitars which appeared to be amplified to the decibel limit, the fourth walloped a set of drums. They all opened their mouths and made noises that sounded to me like: 'Mew; Me-ooh, me-ooh, me-ooh-ooh!'"

1964 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
The Marvelettes' "Too Many Fish in the Sea" enters the Billboard Hot 100 where it will reach #25. The song will be the fifth of the group's ten US Top 40 hits.

1969 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Pink Floyd release their fourth album, "Ummagumma". It is a double disc set, with the first platter featuring live recordings and the second containing studio cuts. Despite favorable reviews, band members would not look back fondly at the LP in later years, even though it went to #5 in the UK and #74 in the US.

1970 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
MGM Records President Mike Curb announces that the company is dropping eighteen acts from its roster in a move to discredit musicians who "exploit and promote hard drugs through music." Among the acts dropped are Connie Francis, and The Cowsills, but not Eric Burdon.

1972 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Atlantic Records releases Bette Midler's debut album, "The Divine Miss M". Co-produced by Barry Manilow, the LP would rise to #9 on the Billboard 200 chart, and be awarded a Platinum disc for sales of one million copies. It would help Midler win Best New Artist at the 1973 Grammy Awards on the strength of three hit singles, "Do You Wanna Dance?" (US #17), "Friends" (US #40), and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (US #8).

1974 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Rolling Stone reports that Ted Nugent has won the National Squirrel-Shooting Archery Contest by picking off a squirrel at 150 yards. Nugent also wiped out twenty-seven more of the small mammals with a handgun during the three day event.

1975 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
A guitar player named Steve Anderson set a new world record for continuous guitar string plucking at 114 hours 17 minutes.

1981 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Daryl Hall and John Oates achieve their third US number one single with "Private Eyes". Over the next three years they would have three more chart toppers. "Private Eyes" reached #32 in the UK.

November 7
The Kingston Trio play a reunion concert at the Magic Mountain theme park in Los Angeles that is taped for a PBS special. Different configurations of the group took turns performing some of their best-known songs. Also on the show were Peter, Paul And Mary, Lindsay Buckingham and The Smothers Brothers.

1983 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
The Rolling Stones release their 17th British and 19th American studio album, "Undercover". The LP would reach #3 in the UK and #4 in the US, breaking a streak of eight consecutive albums to reach #1. Of the three singles released from the collection, only "Undercover Of The Night" became a hit. (US #9, UK #11)

1987 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
A sixteen year old singer named Tiffany had the top tune in the US with a cover version of Tommy James' 1967 hit, "I Think We're Alone Now". His rendition stalled at number four. Tiffany became the youngest act to score a US #1 since a 14-year-old Michael Jackson with did it with "Ben" in 1972.

1988 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
After using his guitar in court to show a jury how several hit songs have contained the same short series of notes, John Fogerty was found not guilty of plagiarizing his own record, "Run Through the Jungle" when he wrote "The Old Man Down The Road". His former record label, Fantasy Records, had brought about the suit which ended up costing Fogerty $400,000 in legal fees.

1991 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Carter Cornelius of The Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose died of a heart attack at the age of 43. Their biggest hits were "Treat Her Like A Lady" (#3 in 1971) and "Too Late To Turn Back Now" (#2 in 1972).

November 7
Moon and Dweezil Zappa announce that their father Frank has prostate cancer. The disease would take his life on December 4th, 1993, just days before his 53rd birthday.

1995 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Eric Clapton receives the Order Of the British Empire from the Prince Of Wales at Buckingham Palace.

2004 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Lenny Mays of The Dramatics passed away of heart failure at the age of 53. The group cracked the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971 with "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" and again in 1972 with "In The Rain".

2005 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Grokster Ltd., a leading developer of Internet software that was widely used for illegal song sharing, agreed to shut down its operations.

2009 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Michael Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, filed court papers in Los Angeles requesting an allowance from the estate of his late son, saying the Pop star supported him for years before his death. The 81-year-old's lawyers said his monthly expenses are $20,000, but he receives only $1,700 from the state.

2011 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, in the climax of a complicated six-week trial. Murray still faced more lawsuits and medical licensing issues.

November 7
Andrea True, a Disco star and actress who had Top 40 hits with "More, More, More" (1976) and "N.Y. You Got Me Dancing" (1977), died of undisclosed causes at the age of 68.

2012 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Cleve Duncan, vocalist for The Penguins on their 1955 Billboard #1 hit, "Earth Angel" passed away at the age of 77. The song was the group's only hit record, but sold over ten million copies, and has been featured prominently in the films Superman III (1983), Back to the Future (1985), and The Karate Kid Part II (1986).

2015 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
While Eagles' drummer Don Henley was trying to turn the spotlight on guitarist Steuart Smith during a concert in Detroit, a fan interrupted him by shouting out former Eagles' guitarist Don Felder's name. When Henley called him out, the fan then shouted, "Don Felder taught Tom Petty how to play guitar." Henley responded, "Okay, that's it, you're outta here," and had security escort the man out. Felder was kicked out of the group in 2001 and was deemed persona non grata after he wrote his autobiography, Heaven and Hell: My Life In The Eagles (1974 - 2001).

2016 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Poet, composer and singer Leonard Cohen passed away at the age of 82. Inducted into Cleveland's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2008, his composition "Hallelujah" has been covered by over three hundred artists.

2017 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
Aretha Franklin makes her final public performance at a gala celebrating the 25th anniversary of Elton John's AIDS foundation in New York City. She would die of pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit, Michigan on August 16th, 2018 at the age of 76.

2020 - ClassicBands.com

November 7
The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame welcomes its newest inductees, Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G. and T. Rex. Because of concerns over COVID-19, the ceremony is virtual and there are no live performances.



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