This Day In Music 11/29

1976 - Lancaster Local Council canceled the Sex Pistols gig at Lancaster Poly, England. The reason was given in a statement by the council which stated: "We don't want that sort of filth in the town limits."



1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis shot his bass player, Norman "Butch" Owens, twice in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle. Lewis was charged with shooting a firearm within the city limits.

1979 - Anita Pallenburg was cleared of murder charges in the shooting death of her young male companion. She was Keith Richards' common-law wife.

1980 - John and Yoko's "Double Fantasy" album was released. A No.1 in the US & the UK, the set featured the No.1 single "Just Like Starting Over."



1982 - Metallica performed their first headlining concert in San Francisco where they would relocate to the following February. The opening act was Exodus, which featured guitarist Kirk Hammett who joined Metallica the following April after Dave Mustaine left the band to form Megadeth.

1995 - Sammy Hagar and model Kari Karte were married.

1996 - Singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) died from a heart attack on stage while playing his hit "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" at a club in Minneapolis.

1998 - David H. "Butch" McDade, founder and drummer of country-rock group Amazing Rhythm Aces, died at home in Maryville, Tenn. He was 52.

2000 - In the penultimate show of its storied 13-year career, the Smashing Pumpkins said a long and loud goodbye at Chicago's United Center, where they ripped through three hours of big hits, a few rarities, and several acoustic numbers.



2001 - Former Beatles guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer at the age of 58.

Birthdays:

1940 Chuck Mangione
1941 Denny Doherty of The Mamas & The Papas
1943 Felix Cavaliere of the Young Rascals
1943 John Mayall
1947 Ronnie Montrose
1951 Barry Goudreau of Boston
1968 Jon Knight of New Kids on the Block
1968 Martin Carr of The Boo Radleys
1974 Apl.De.Ap of The Black Eyed Peas
1976 Anna Faris
1979 The Game

Lyric Of The Day:

"I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you."
-- George Harrison, While My Guitar Gently Weeps



Quote Of The Day:

"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you."
-- George Harrison