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November 30, 1979 –Pink Floyd released its album The Wall on this date. Pink Floyd rarely released singles that were also on an album because they felt their songs were best appreciated in the context of an album, where the songs and the artwork came together to form a theme. Producer Bob Ezrin convinced themContinue reading “Does anybody remember Vera Lynn?”

November 30, 1994 –The Beatles’ first album in 25 years, Live at the BBC, is released in Britain on this date. BBC producer Peter Pilbeam meet an unknown group through their young manager Brian Epstein in February of 1962. He was impressed the group’s four-song audition and thus began a relationship that would span roughlyContinue reading “Because they didn’t have enough money”

November 29, 1969 –The Beatles‘ double A sided single Come Together/ Something, (their twenty-sixth release in the United States,) went to # 1 on the Billboard charts, on this date. Come Together / Something became the group’s 18th US No. 1. John Lennon was inspired by Timothy Leary’s campaign for governor of California titled “ComeContinue reading “The Beatles did double duty at the top of the charts”

November 29, 1975 –Silver Convention’s single Fly, Robin, Fly hits #1 on the Billboard Charts for the first of three weeks. The disco tune has very few lyrics because the German group can’t speak English. This was the first #1 US hit with a species of bird in the title. Rockin’ Robin – both theContinue reading “Get you huckapoo shirts on”

November 29, 1945 –Remarkable for it frank portrayal of alcoholism (for it’s day), The Lost Weekend, premiered in Los Angeles on this date. Billy Wilder claimed the liquor industry offered Paramount Pictures $5 million not to release the film; he also suggested that he would have accepted had they offered it to him personally.

So sending your greetings are now just a click away. The day celebrates the fact that you can send someone a card from one office bathroom stall to another.

November 29, 1992 –U2’s first TV special, called U2’s Zoo TV Outside Broadcast, aired on Fox-TV on this date. The show contains footage from their concerts at Yankee Stadium in New York and the Houston Astrodome, earlier that year.

November 28, 1974 –John Lennon makes his last-ever concert appearance when he joinsElton John on stage at Madison Square Garden, reciprocating forElton’s appearance on Whatever Gets You Thru The Night and making good on a bet he lost: Elton wagered that Whatever Gets You Thru The Night would hit #1 in the US, and whenContinue reading “I’m sure he didn’t think this was his last concert”

November 28, 1969 –The Rolling Stones released their eighth British album Let It Bleed on this date. It is the follow-up to 1968’s Beggars Banquet and the last album by the band to feature Brian Jones as well as the first to feature Mick Taylor.

November 28, 1951 –The British film Scrooge (aka A Christmas Carol,) starring Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, and Patrick Macnee, premiered in NYC on this date. (One of our favorite versions.) Changes to the screenplay from the Charles Dickens book were made, mostly in the Christmas Past sequence.Continue reading “We watch this every year”