This Day In Music: November 17th 1961, The Beatles played a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. That night they played at the Village Hall, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. 1962, The Four Seasons started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Big Girls Dont Cry, the groups second No.1 of the year. It made No.13 in the UK. 1963, John Weightman the Headmaster of a Surrey Grammar School, banned all pupils from having Beatle haircuts saying, this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons. 1966, The Beach Boys were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Good Vibrations. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up vibrations from people, so that the dog would bark at bad vibrations Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song. 1967, A 16 date UK package tour with Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, The Nice and Amen Corner played at the City Hall, Sheffield. A review in the Sheffield Star noted: Like an electrified golliwog, Jimi Hendrix threw himself into a live-wire act that featured his intricate guitar interpretation. Quite an Experience. Pink Floyd also released their third single Apples And Oranges today in the UK. 1971, Slade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Coz I Luv You, the groups first of six No.1s. The misspelt song titles became a trademark for Slade, causing a great furor among teachers up and down the country. 1973, The Whos double album ‘Quadrophenia’ entered the UK album chart peaking at No.2. One of two two full-scale rock operas from The Who (the other being the 1969 ‘Tommy’). The 1979 film based on the story stars Phil Daniels, Toyah Willcox, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick and Sting. 1979, Jethro Tull bass player John Glascock died at the age of 28, as a result of a congenital heart defect. Had also been a member of Chicken Shack. 1979, The Commodores went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Still, the groups second US No.1 single, it made No.4 in the UK. 1990, David Crosby from Crosby Stills Nash & Young was admitted to hospital after breaking a leg, shoulder and ankle after crashing his Harley Davidson motorbike. 1992, At the end of a long battle to claim royalties Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago ex of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, received an estimated $4 million in back payments from the song Why Do Fools Fall In Love. 1999, Mariah Carey was forced to abandon a performance on Romes historic Spanish Steps after crowds of tourists swamped her. She took shelter in a local shop before been given a police escort to safety. 2000, It was reported that Andy White who played drums on The Beatles track Love Me Do which was featured on the new Beatles Greatest Hits album would not earn enough from it to buy his own copy. White would get no more than his original session fee of £7. 2003, 21 year-old Britney Spears became the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The only other performer to get a Hollywood star at her age was Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert. 2003, American country music legend Don Gibson died of natural causes aged 75. Scored the 1958 US No.7 single Oh Lonesome Me, (covered by Neil Young on his After The Gold Rush album), 1961 UK No.14 single Sea Of Heartbreak. His song ‘I Cant Stop Loving You’, has been recorded by over 700 artists, most notably by Ray Charles in 1962. 2003, Britney Spears said that her first lover Justin Timberlake was a huge disappointment in the pants department. Talking during a MTV show Spears said ‘forget trousersnake, its more like trouser worm’, when referring to her ex boyfriend. 2007, The Eagles were at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Long Road Out Of Eden’ the bands seventh studio album and first since 1979. 2010, Patti Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. 2011, Sheriffs deputies in South Los Angeles charged 61-year-old Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters for possessing rock cocaine after the car she was driving in was pulled over for a mechanical malfunction. November 17th: Born on this day 1938, Born on this day, Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer, (1971 UK No.30 single If You Could Read My Mind, 1974 US No.1 single Sundown). 1942, Born on this day, Bob Gaudio, The Royal Teens, (1958 US No.3 single Short Shorts). The Four Seasons, (1976 UK & US No.1 single December 1963, Oh What A Night). 1944, Born on this day, Gene Clark, singer, songwriter, The New Christy Minstrels, The Byrds, (1965 UK & US No.1 single Mr Tambourine Man). Solo, (1974 album, No Other). Died of a heart attack on 24th May 1991 aged 49. 1946, Born on this day, Martin Barre, Jethro Tull, (1969 UK No.3 single Living In The Past). 1947, Born on this day, Robert Antoni, vocals, Nazz, Utopia with Todd Rundgren. 1957, Born on this day, Jim Babjak, US group, The Smithereens, (1988 US No.41 album Smithereens 11). 1966, Born on this day, Jeff Buckley, US singer songwriter, (1995 album Grace). His singer songwriter father Tim Buckley, died on 29th June 1975 of a heroin and morphine overdose. Jeff Buckley drowned on 29th May 1997 in Wolf River Harbor on the Mississippi River - during a spontaneous evening swim - wearing boots and all of his clothing. 1980, Born on this day, Clarke Isaac Hanson, guitar, keyboards, singer, Hanson, (1997 UK & US No.1 single MMMbop).
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