... and more November 29 birthdays – Merle Travis (1917) – Country music singer/songwriter (“Sixteen Tons”). Ed Bickert (1932) – Canadian jazz guitarist. Jody Miller (aka Myrna Joy Miller, 1941) – Country/gospel singer (“Queen Of The House”). Tim Davis (1943) – drummer for The Steve Miller Band. Ronnie Montrose (1947) Michael Dempsey (1958) – bassist for The Cure. Wallis Buchanan (1965) – vibraphonist and didgeridoo player for Jamiroquai. Martin Carr (1968) – guitarist for The Boo Radleys. Frank Delgado (1970) – keyboardist/turntabler for Deftones.
November 29 R.I.P. – Ray Smith (1979) – suicide. Age 45. Rockabilly artist (“Rockin’ Little Angel”). David “Butch” McDade (1998) – cancer. Age 52. Drummer for The Amazing Rhythm Aces. Curtis Knight (1999) – cancer. Age 54. The Squires. George Harrison (2001) – metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. Age 58. November 29 album releases – The Charlie Daniels Band – Fire On The Mountain (1974) Slade – Slade In Flame (1974) ZZ Top – Tejas (1976) Foreigner – Records (1982) Cocteau Twins – Echoes In A Shallow Bay (1985) EP Guns ‘N Roses – Lies (1988) U.S. Motörhead – Bastards (1993) November 29 events – 1938 – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra records “Hawaiian War Chant.” 1944 – Gene Autry records “Don’t Fence Me In.” 1959 – Bobby Darin wins Record of the Year for his song "Mack the Knife," and Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested and jailed in Hamburg, Germany for attempted arson when they burn a condom in the backstage area of the Bambi Kino cinema where they’ve been living. 1963 – The Beatles release their single, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” b/ w “This Boy” in the UK. 1965 – Colorado Governor John Love declares the day “Rolling Stones Day” in anticipation of their concert at the Denver Coliseum. 1966 – Just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, Elvis Presley hears Georg Klein play Tom Jones' “Green Green Grass Of Home” on his radio show, and repeatedly calls the station to have the song played again and again. 1976 – The Lancaster local council cancels the Sex Pistols’ gig at Lancaster Poly, saying, “'We don't want that sort of filth in the town limits.” 1979 – KISS plays their “final” gig before “breaking up” at the San Diego Sports Arena. They will tour again the next year with a different drummer. 1979 – Paul Simon hits his record label, CBS, with two lawsuits in an attempt to break his contract. 1979 – Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards' common-law wife, is cleared of all charges in the shooting death of 17-year-old Scott Cantrell. 1992 – U2's first television special, U2's Zoo TV Outside Broadcast, airs on Fox-TV. 1997 – Whitney Houston pulls out of a concert sponsored by the Moonies two hours before she is due on stage after finding out the event is a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie couples. The religious group said they have no intention of suing providing the singer returns the $1million fee she was paid. 2000 – Chuck Berry’s keyboardist, Johnnie Johnson, sues Berry for songwriting credits on 52 songs. The suit will be thrown out on October 23, 2002, due to the statute of limitations. 2002 – Three paintings by Paul McCartney are bought for just £35 each at the Secrets Postcard Sale at London's Royal College of Art, where members of the public gamble on whether they are buying works by celebrity artists at a fraction of their value, since the work’s creator is only made known after the sale. 2003 – A five-hour charity concert to boost the fight against AIDS is held at Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Acts include Bono, Queen, Ms. Dynamite, Peter Gabriel, Eurythmics, Beyonce, Youssou N'Dour, Anastacia, The Corrs, Jimmy Cliff and Chaka Chaka. The show is also broadcast live on the Internet. 2005 – Pop Idol creator Simon Fuller drops his £100 million copyright suit against the X Factor's Simon Cowell, which charged Cowell with copying Pop Idol, and settles the case out of court in a deal which makes him a joint partner in the X Factor show. As part of the settlement, Cowell agrees to appear for five more seasons on American Idol. 2007 – Control, the biopic about late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, takes five awards at the British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Debut Director, Most Promising Newcomer in Curtis’ portrayer Sam Riley, and Best Performance By A Supporting Actor Or Actress In A British Independent Film for Toby Kebbell, who plays Joy Division’s manager Rob Gretton. 2007 – Former Smiths singer Morrissey begins proceedings to sue the UK music weekly New Musical Express for printing an interview where Morrissey calls Chinese people a “sub species.” 2007 – Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, a convicted sex offender, is arrested for the second time in 10 days for failing to properly register at a new address in Florida.
