November 6th Born on this day in History of Music Adolph Sax - inventor of the saxophone (1814), John Philip Sousa (1854), P.J. Proby (1938), Guy Clark (1941), Doug Sahm - Sir Douglas Quintet (1942), Eloise Laws (1943), Lani Hall (1945), George Young - The Easybeats (1946), Glenn Frey - The Eagles (1948), Chris Glen - Alex Harvey Band (1950), Craig Goldy - Dio (1961), Paul Brindley - The Sundays (1963), Corey Glover - Living Colour (1964), Paul Gilbert - Mr Big (1966), Trevor Penick - O-Town (1979), Thomas Neuwirth (Conchita Wurst) 1988
Chart News
1961 Jimmy Dean at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Big Bad John'
1965 The Rolling Stones at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Get Off Of My Cloud'
1968 Joe Cocker at No.1 in the UK singles chart with 'With A Little Help From My Friends'.
1971 Cher at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves'
1976 The Steve Miller Band at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rock 'n' Me' 1977 Abba at No.1 on the UK single chart with 'The Name Of The Game'
1982 Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker at No.1 on the US with 'Up Where We Belong'.
1982 Culture Club at No.1 on the UK chart for the 3rd week with 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?'
1993 Meat Loaf at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I'd' Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
1993 Pearl Jam at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Vs'
1993 Ace of Base at No.1 on the Australian chart with All That She Wants
2005 Westlife at No.1 on the UK album chart with Face To Face
2005 Madonna at No.1 on the UK chart with Hung Up
2006 Fedde Le Grand at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Put Your Hands Up For Detroit'
2021 Adele at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Easy on Me'
Gig News
1963 The Beatles played two shows at the ABC Cinema in Northampton.
1965 The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane played at the opening night of San Francisco's Fillmore West.
1966 The Who played at the Kongresshalle, Cologne supported by The Lords.
1970 Aerosmith performed their first gig when they played at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, Massachusetts
1975 The Sex Pistols made their live debut at St Martin s School Of Art in central London
1982 R.E.M. appeared at Tupelo's Tavern, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1984 U2 played at Glasgow Barrowlands in Scotland 1986 R.E.M. played at Felt Forum New York City supported by The Feelies
1995 The Charlatans played at the Aberdeen Beach Ballroom
2000 Madonna played at New York's Roseland Ballroom.
2003 Metallica performed at Yoyogi Taiikukanin Tokyo, Japan
Music News
2021 Astro from UB40 passed away