November 24, 2025 • 18 mins
Join host Buzz Knight and Harry Jacobs on a look at music history for the week of 11-24. They talk about events concerning Queen(the passing of Freddie Mercury), Cream, The Last Waltz(The Band's Farewell Concert which featured Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and others), Cream, and the passing of the great Philadelphia DJ from WMMR Pierre Robert.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is a Taken a Walk podcast and I'm buzzsnight.
Welcome back, and this is another look at this week
in music history for the week of November the twenty fourth.
I have a feeling it's going to be a robust week.
But just to verify that, I turned to the master
of music, Mayhem Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Harry, what do you got? Got A bunch of stuff?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Robust is probably an apt description of this week. We're
going to start with Freddie Mercury November twenty fourth. We
talked about this a little bit last time over the
last couple of episodes that you know, this was the
time that he had announced that he had AIDS November
twenty third, actually the day before yesterday technically, that he
(00:46):
had AIDS, and on the twenty fourth he actually passed away.
He lived with the illness. He knew obviously, he knew
he was sick. People close to him knew he was sick.
I think we all knew there was something going on.
And he passed away quietly on November twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A huge loss, huge loss. Yes, he was a you know,
he was a brilliant guy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We talked about Bohemian Rhapsody, a couple of weeks ago,
and how much work he put into that song, how
the whole thing was basically put together by him. He
orchestrated it, no pun intended and was really minus Radio
(01:28):
Gaga and another one, Bites the Dust you know was
a was a musical genius in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yep, agree, right, agree.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And there was probably some genius involved in another one
Bites the Dust too simple rhythmic fun nineteen ninety one.
On November twenty fourth, Eric Carr, who was one of
the guys that replaced Peter Chris, passed away eighteen fifty nine.
I know nothing about this. Charles Darwin published on the
(01:57):
Origin of species. I'm not fromamiliar with much of that's
that's one of those things that with Darwin and his theories.
I never I never paid attention to much of that
when I was growing up.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And I love history, Yeah, I love history, but I
wasn't paying attention apparently to anything as I look back,
so makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
November twenty fifth. You're supposed to disagree with that, Sorry O, No,
I agree. I agree.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I feel the same way like my running joke. As
you know, as I graduated from the Worcester Public Schools
on a plea deal with the district Attorney.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I didn't pay attention to shit.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Nineteen seventy six, November twenty fifth, the band performed the
Last Waltz the farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Dylan Neil Young Clapton was a part of that. A
big deal.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You're a big fan of the band and Robbie Robertson,
and that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It really was. It's a great concert film to this day.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I love Joni Mitchell's part of it as well, when
she sort of appears in the background and then comes
out and it's.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Just so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And then when you learn over time what was really
going on, the majority of the band members.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Really were not up for this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They had already become a fractionalized unit certainly, and it
didn't appear to us then that this was all going on.
But the more we would learn years later, I think
Levon in particular Levon Helm kind of went kicking and
screaming to the last Waltz because he just sort of
(03:32):
felt like it wasn't his idea and really wasn't a
fan of it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So but it's a great film.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, there was angst in the ranks, no doubt really
at that point between the members. Robbie was notoriously difficult
as well to do. I mean, listen, we all have
our personalities. And when you're that close and you've got
a band and you're working in close quarters like that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, and you do then appreciate those the first two
albums even more when you when you study what was
going on with the band because of all the discontent
that was happening and some of the you know, the
egos all colliding, so it really makes you further. I think,
at least me as a fan, really appreciate those first
(04:17):
two because those first two stand beautifully to this day,
and I think they are, you know, works of art.
I like the rest of their catalog, don't get me wrong,
but you really appreciate the first two. That's when it
was fun. They were humming, and it was you know,
it really was just a whole different thing. The Richard
(04:40):
Manuel biography that came out in the last year is
pretty intense in terms of getting a deeper understanding of
the dynamics when it was going. Well, you get this understanding,
that's what you that's more of what was in that biography,
you know, the times that were gone, knowing really well
(05:01):
and how they were such.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
A hard working, well oiled machine.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The last one who who passed was Garth Hudson, who
died I think in the last year and a half
or so.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He was he was.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Hanging on at a rest home somewhere in upstate New York.
And so, you know, because Robbie passed fairly recently as well.
Were we working together at ZLX when we had them
at the b N Yeah, you want.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
To tell that story about Ken west on the on
the Great Bob west On the on the bus.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, I heard this story actually from Robert Mathers who
described it, which I didn't. By the way, they I
don't want to tell that story because I don't want
to infringe on some people's let's just say lifestyle at
the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So I'm going to respect that part.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But let's just say our guys went on the bus
to try to carry out and interview and record an interview,
and it was like Willie Nelson's bus. Let's just call
it what it was.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Hey, listen, I got two words to describe the situation.
Contact high.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's it. That's all. Yep.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Nineteen ninety seven, Michael Hutchins in Excess was found dead
in Sydney. This one kind of hit me hard. I
was an Inexcess fan and his death was clouded. But
his manner of death, oh god, yeah, it's what they
call auto erotic asphyxiation. He I don't even know what.
(06:39):
I'm rarely at a loss for words, but this was
an odd one to lose him. It was a big
loss musically, and he left us too soon.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah. They were clearly had more in them, you know, musical. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Nineteen ninety four, do they know It's Christmas Time? Was
recorded by band Aid think about it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Where we are.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It's November twenty fourth, We're a month away from Christmas
and it was recorded and then it was released very quickly.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, this is a great speedy release. Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, great great song. November twenty sixth, nineteen sixty eight,
Cream played their final concert at Royal Albert Hall.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I feel like we just talked about that, but that
was one year ago when we did the episode.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So that's my that's right, And we did talk about
the release of the live album, I think. Yeah, So
that's how how how it came up, there was, there was,
There's been a bunch of cream over the last month
or so.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No complaining.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
No, this is an interesting one, and this will tax
your memory because I'm going to go somewhere. I'm going
to ask you a question about something, Oh Boy, and
I've given you the answer already. Another open book test.
This is similar to the was doing alb when killed
by Pete's truck?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Nineteen eighty eight, Guns N' Roses. His debut album comes out,
Appetite for Destruction. You remember that I do.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm fright hitt by the way, so I'm listening.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Hit number one after a year of climbing the charts.
Opening track was Welcome to the Jungle. I great stuff
on that, right, mister Brownstone Paradise City, Sweet Child. Welcome
to the Jungle was featured in a movie. It was
featured in a movie which had been a series of
(08:28):
movies starring a famous actor. Nineteen eighty eight was its
final chapter. Jim Carey was in the movie. He played
a movie star and a rock star. And that's the
first place that we heard Welcome to the Jungle. Do
(08:50):
you remember either the star of the movie or the
name of the movie.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's the star of the first name Arnold.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
No, sir, oh darn you, you're in the right side
of the country for where he lives.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now, I'm gonna just give it to you. Yeah, you
know this because we talked about it. I know I'm
gonna I'm gonna like slam the mic down in disgust.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The last Dirty Harry movie was The Deadpool.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yes, right, and I knew it was a franchise of sorts,
but it wasn't Arnold.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It was Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Clint, and I will tell you I remember seeing this
movie somewhere in nineteen eighty eight in Wooster with our
friend Chuck Nolan, and we heard the song for the
first time in the movie. It was before it was,
you know, getting played on rock radio, and we were
(09:51):
we left talking about Welcome to the Jungle hearing it
for the first time. But the Deadpool was about a celebrity,
the death list, and Jim Harry's character was on it.
And this, by the way, to date, an Appetite for
Destruction is the number one selling debut album by a
(10:15):
band in US history.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Wow, isn't that crazy? Yeah? That is.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Two thousand and three. November twenty sixth. This is another
one where I think you're gonna say no to it.
Were every fan of the Lord of the Rings? No, yeah,
same here Lord of the Rings. The Return of the
King premiered in New Zealand. I just had to ask
if it was something you were close to. I I
guess I knew the answer. November twenty seventh, nineteen forty two.
(10:44):
Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle and another one that,
just as we say all the time, just went too soon,
part of the twenty seven club. Interesting that he was
born on November twenty seventh. George Harrison in nineteen seventy
released All Things Must Pass. This thing was a masterpiece
(11:06):
as far as albums are concerned. You're a fan of
obviously Harrison and this album absolutely totally. November twenty eighth,
we skipped to the next day. John Lennon made his
final public concert appearance.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Did you know that? Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The year that thinking about the fact that he died
in nineteen eighty one, the last time he made a
public concert appearance was that the benefit It was on
stage with Elton John during an Elton John concert. Oh
is it an Elton concert?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In seventy four. Think about it. He went from seventy four,
never got on stage again, incredible and lived you know,
a fair amount of time after that. In nineteen ninety two,
I Will Always Love You began a fourteen week run
at number one by Whitney Houston. That was part of
the Bodyguard movie. Kind of a hokey movie, but really
(12:02):
good Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner. Whitney was a you know,
a superstar.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I mean, I know you and the pop stuff. I
know you love the pop, not so much Whitney. For me,
it's not just pop. It's more disco. Well, but like songs.
Whitney's popped the good songs.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah. I want to say to somebody, I said yeah,
you said it. You said it, you said it was good.
I said it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Nineteen twenty five, the Grand Old Opry debuted on radio
in Nashville. This is a big event for country in
general and for radio at that time. Yes, for sure,
just a couple days after historically the release of All
Things Must Pass, Which wrong. On twenty seventh November twenty ninth,
(12:48):
George Harrison passed away fifty eight years old. Sad Day
nineteen seventy six, Jerry Lee Lewis. You know, if I'm
talking to Jerry Lee Lewis, it's going to be some
sort of crazy ass story that's going to accompany it.
He shot Norman Owens, who was his bassist. They were
celebrating his birthday, Jerry's, and Jerry pulls out a handgun
(13:13):
and he's shooting at a coke bottle. Somehow he shoots
his bassist. He wasn't charged with shooting the bassist. He
was charged with discharging a firearm within city limits. He
never got his birthday party. He pulls out his gun
and starts shooting at a door, at a coke bottle,
(13:35):
and Owen's was around there. And by the way, the
relationship between he and Owens didn't go well after that.
As you can imagine, you get shot by somebody, probably
not on talking terms. Owens survived and then he won
a lawsuit a couple of years after that. One hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars in damages was a misdemeanor
(13:58):
charge for Jerry, and that one hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars would probably be about eight hundred thousand dollars today,
but there's your crazy Jerry Lee Lewis story. We get
a couple of them a year that pop up on
this little program of ours. November thirtieth, nineteen seventy nine
is when The Wall was released finally in the US,
and on the same day, in nineteen eighty two, Thriller
(14:20):
was released. And with those two, that's this week in
music history, and next week, Buzz, it's already going to
be December, Harry.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do want to report something really sad here that
the day we're recording this actually which is the last
Wednesday in October, just for full disclosure, even though this
is the November week that we're over. So the passing
was just announced of one of the great DJs in
(14:55):
rock radio history, no less Philadelphia radio history.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Pierre Robert passed away from WMMR. Oh wow. And I
just saw the news.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I was as we were recording this, I was seeing
an influx of some people calling and it was a
bit odd to me that they were all It didn't
seem like a good thing that people were calling as
we were recording this. So reading this from radio in Philadelphia,
radio has lost one of its most enduring local voices.
WMMR midday host Pierre Robert was found dead at his
(15:31):
home on Wednesday. Robert joined WMMR in nineteen eighty one,
and he became synonymous with the city's rock identity for
more than four decades. His generosity was well known. He
regularly hosted and supported community events, from the AIDS Walk
(15:51):
to the Pie in the Sky fundraiser, champion countless local charities.
In twenty nineteen, his legacy was cemented with his inclusion
on Philadelphia's Music Alliance Walk of Fame, which I was
able to be there for that. I don't even know.
(16:11):
I'm in shock from this announcement. What he meant to
Philadelphia and what Philadelphia meant to him. He was a
transplant from out out West, so he was not I
didn't realize that, not not you know, born and raised
in Philadelphia, but love Philadelphia with all his heart. I
(16:32):
just saw something on social media a week or two
ago of him and one of his co workers seeing
David Byrne I mean went to shows probably if he
could go to a show every night, he would go
to a show every night and was.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Approachable to all the fan base.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Was was always there with with with an open arm
and a and a hug when I went through from
my time working with that station, that great station and
those great people. So I am so saddened buy the news.
So I thought, you know, in real time, like I said,
(17:16):
let's just announce that we're recording this this episode at
the end of October. But rest in peace, Pierre Robert.
There's there's nobody like him, and a sad, sad moment
to report.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You've had a relationship with him.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, this this guy, this guy was was not just
a radio icon.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He was just a He was a He was a
good soul and an icon.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Who walked tall and as he would say, I'll use
his term, goodbye good citizen.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I you know, I never got to meet him,
but I heard you talk about him often over the
years from you know, from time to time, and always
spoke so highly of him.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So this is a sad day for radio and for
people that knew and loved him. He will not be forgotten.
Rest in peace, Pierre Robert.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So ending it on that note, Harry, thank you for
everything for this week in music history.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
This is the week of November the.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Twenty fourth, and we will have another episode on Monday
the first and we're gonna kick.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It off with something about the birds.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Thank you, Harry, and thanks to all you for listening
to this Week in music History on the Taken a
Walk podcast
This is a Taken a Walk podcast and I'm buzzsnight.
Welcome back, and this is another look at this week
in music history for the week of November the twenty fourth.
I have a feeling it's going to be a robust week.
But just to verify that, I turned to the master
of music, Mayhem Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Harry, what do you got? Got A bunch of stuff?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Robust is probably an apt description of this week. We're
going to start with Freddie Mercury November twenty fourth. We
talked about this a little bit last time over the
last couple of episodes that you know, this was the
time that he had announced that he had AIDS November
twenty third, actually the day before yesterday technically, that he
(00:46):
had AIDS, and on the twenty fourth he actually passed away.
He lived with the illness. He knew obviously, he knew
he was sick. People close to him knew he was sick.
I think we all knew there was something going on.
And he passed away quietly on November twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A huge loss, huge loss. Yes, he was a you know,
he was a brilliant guy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We talked about Bohemian Rhapsody, a couple of weeks ago,
and how much work he put into that song, how
the whole thing was basically put together by him. He
orchestrated it, no pun intended and was really minus Radio
(01:28):
Gaga and another one, Bites the Dust you know was
a was a musical genius in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yep, agree, right, agree.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And there was probably some genius involved in another one
Bites the Dust too simple rhythmic fun nineteen ninety one.
On November twenty fourth, Eric Carr, who was one of
the guys that replaced Peter Chris, passed away eighteen fifty nine.
I know nothing about this. Charles Darwin published on the
(01:57):
Origin of species. I'm not fromamiliar with much of that's
that's one of those things that with Darwin and his theories.
I never I never paid attention to much of that
when I was growing up.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And I love history, Yeah, I love history, but I
wasn't paying attention apparently to anything as I look back,
so makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
November twenty fifth. You're supposed to disagree with that, Sorry O, No,
I agree. I agree.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I feel the same way like my running joke. As
you know, as I graduated from the Worcester Public Schools
on a plea deal with the district Attorney.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I didn't pay attention to shit.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Nineteen seventy six, November twenty fifth, the band performed the
Last Waltz the farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Dylan Neil Young Clapton was a part of that. A
big deal.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You're a big fan of the band and Robbie Robertson,
and that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It really was. It's a great concert film to this day.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I love Joni Mitchell's part of it as well, when
she sort of appears in the background and then comes
out and it's.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Just so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And then when you learn over time what was really
going on, the majority of the band members.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Really were not up for this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They had already become a fractionalized unit certainly, and it
didn't appear to us then that this was all going on.
But the more we would learn years later, I think
Levon in particular Levon Helm kind of went kicking and
screaming to the last Waltz because he just sort of
(03:32):
felt like it wasn't his idea and really wasn't a
fan of it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So but it's a great film.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, there was angst in the ranks, no doubt really
at that point between the members. Robbie was notoriously difficult
as well to do. I mean, listen, we all have
our personalities. And when you're that close and you've got
a band and you're working in close quarters like that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, and you do then appreciate those the first two
albums even more when you when you study what was
going on with the band because of all the discontent
that was happening and some of the you know, the
egos all colliding, so it really makes you further. I think,
at least me as a fan, really appreciate those first
(04:17):
two because those first two stand beautifully to this day,
and I think they are, you know, works of art.
I like the rest of their catalog, don't get me wrong,
but you really appreciate the first two. That's when it
was fun. They were humming, and it was you know,
it really was just a whole different thing. The Richard
(04:40):
Manuel biography that came out in the last year is
pretty intense in terms of getting a deeper understanding of
the dynamics when it was going. Well, you get this understanding,
that's what you that's more of what was in that biography,
you know, the times that were gone, knowing really well
(05:01):
and how they were such.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
A hard working, well oiled machine.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The last one who who passed was Garth Hudson, who
died I think in the last year and a half
or so.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He was he was.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Hanging on at a rest home somewhere in upstate New York.
And so, you know, because Robbie passed fairly recently as well.
Were we working together at ZLX when we had them
at the b N Yeah, you want.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
To tell that story about Ken west on the on
the Great Bob west On the on the bus.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, I heard this story actually from Robert Mathers who
described it, which I didn't. By the way, they I
don't want to tell that story because I don't want
to infringe on some people's let's just say lifestyle at
the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So I'm going to respect that part.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But let's just say our guys went on the bus
to try to carry out and interview and record an interview,
and it was like Willie Nelson's bus. Let's just call
it what it was.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Hey, listen, I got two words to describe the situation.
Contact high.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's it. That's all. Yep.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Nineteen ninety seven, Michael Hutchins in Excess was found dead
in Sydney. This one kind of hit me hard. I
was an Inexcess fan and his death was clouded. But
his manner of death, oh god, yeah, it's what they
call auto erotic asphyxiation. He I don't even know what.
(06:39):
I'm rarely at a loss for words, but this was
an odd one to lose him. It was a big
loss musically, and he left us too soon.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah. They were clearly had more in them, you know, musical. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Nineteen ninety four, do they know It's Christmas Time? Was
recorded by band Aid think about it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Where we are.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It's November twenty fourth, We're a month away from Christmas
and it was recorded and then it was released very quickly.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, this is a great speedy release. Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, great great song. November twenty sixth, nineteen sixty eight,
Cream played their final concert at Royal Albert Hall.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I feel like we just talked about that, but that
was one year ago when we did the episode.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So that's my that's right, And we did talk about
the release of the live album, I think. Yeah, So
that's how how how it came up, there was, there was,
There's been a bunch of cream over the last month
or so.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No complaining.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
No, this is an interesting one, and this will tax
your memory because I'm going to go somewhere. I'm going
to ask you a question about something, Oh Boy, and
I've given you the answer already. Another open book test.
This is similar to the was doing alb when killed
by Pete's truck?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Nineteen eighty eight, Guns N' Roses. His debut album comes out,
Appetite for Destruction. You remember that I do.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm fright hitt by the way, so I'm listening.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Hit number one after a year of climbing the charts.
Opening track was Welcome to the Jungle. I great stuff
on that, right, mister Brownstone Paradise City, Sweet Child. Welcome
to the Jungle was featured in a movie. It was
featured in a movie which had been a series of
(08:28):
movies starring a famous actor. Nineteen eighty eight was its
final chapter. Jim Carey was in the movie. He played
a movie star and a rock star. And that's the
first place that we heard Welcome to the Jungle. Do
(08:50):
you remember either the star of the movie or the
name of the movie.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's the star of the first name Arnold.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
No, sir, oh darn you, you're in the right side
of the country for where he lives.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now, I'm gonna just give it to you. Yeah, you
know this because we talked about it. I know I'm
gonna I'm gonna like slam the mic down in disgust.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The last Dirty Harry movie was The Deadpool.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yes, right, and I knew it was a franchise of sorts,
but it wasn't Arnold.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It was Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Clint, and I will tell you I remember seeing this
movie somewhere in nineteen eighty eight in Wooster with our
friend Chuck Nolan, and we heard the song for the
first time in the movie. It was before it was,
you know, getting played on rock radio, and we were
(09:51):
we left talking about Welcome to the Jungle hearing it
for the first time. But the Deadpool was about a celebrity,
the death list, and Jim Harry's character was on it.
And this, by the way, to date, an Appetite for
Destruction is the number one selling debut album by a
(10:15):
band in US history.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Wow, isn't that crazy? Yeah? That is.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Two thousand and three. November twenty sixth. This is another
one where I think you're gonna say no to it.
Were every fan of the Lord of the Rings? No, yeah,
same here Lord of the Rings. The Return of the
King premiered in New Zealand. I just had to ask
if it was something you were close to. I I
guess I knew the answer. November twenty seventh, nineteen forty two.
(10:44):
Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle and another one that,
just as we say all the time, just went too soon,
part of the twenty seven club. Interesting that he was
born on November twenty seventh. George Harrison in nineteen seventy
released All Things Must Pass. This thing was a masterpiece
(11:06):
as far as albums are concerned. You're a fan of
obviously Harrison and this album absolutely totally. November twenty eighth,
we skipped to the next day. John Lennon made his
final public concert appearance.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Did you know that? Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The year that thinking about the fact that he died
in nineteen eighty one, the last time he made a
public concert appearance was that the benefit It was on
stage with Elton John during an Elton John concert. Oh
is it an Elton concert?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In seventy four. Think about it. He went from seventy four,
never got on stage again, incredible and lived you know,
a fair amount of time after that. In nineteen ninety two,
I Will Always Love You began a fourteen week run
at number one by Whitney Houston. That was part of
the Bodyguard movie. Kind of a hokey movie, but really
(12:02):
good Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner. Whitney was a you know,
a superstar.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I mean, I know you and the pop stuff. I
know you love the pop, not so much Whitney. For me,
it's not just pop. It's more disco. Well, but like songs.
Whitney's popped the good songs.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah. I want to say to somebody, I said yeah,
you said it. You said it, you said it was good.
I said it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Nineteen twenty five, the Grand Old Opry debuted on radio
in Nashville. This is a big event for country in
general and for radio at that time. Yes, for sure,
just a couple days after historically the release of All
Things Must Pass, Which wrong. On twenty seventh November twenty ninth,
(12:48):
George Harrison passed away fifty eight years old. Sad Day
nineteen seventy six, Jerry Lee Lewis. You know, if I'm
talking to Jerry Lee Lewis, it's going to be some
sort of crazy ass story that's going to accompany it.
He shot Norman Owens, who was his bassist. They were
celebrating his birthday, Jerry's, and Jerry pulls out a handgun
(13:13):
and he's shooting at a coke bottle. Somehow he shoots
his bassist. He wasn't charged with shooting the bassist. He
was charged with discharging a firearm within city limits. He
never got his birthday party. He pulls out his gun
and starts shooting at a door, at a coke bottle,
(13:35):
and Owen's was around there. And by the way, the
relationship between he and Owens didn't go well after that.
As you can imagine, you get shot by somebody, probably
not on talking terms. Owens survived and then he won
a lawsuit a couple of years after that. One hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars in damages was a misdemeanor
(13:58):
charge for Jerry, and that one hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars would probably be about eight hundred thousand dollars today,
but there's your crazy Jerry Lee Lewis story. We get
a couple of them a year that pop up on
this little program of ours. November thirtieth, nineteen seventy nine
is when The Wall was released finally in the US,
and on the same day, in nineteen eighty two, Thriller
(14:20):
was released. And with those two, that's this week in
music history, and next week, Buzz, it's already going to
be December, Harry.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do want to report something really sad here that
the day we're recording this actually which is the last
Wednesday in October, just for full disclosure, even though this
is the November week that we're over. So the passing
was just announced of one of the great DJs in
(14:55):
rock radio history, no less Philadelphia radio history.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Pierre Robert passed away from WMMR. Oh wow. And I
just saw the news.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I was as we were recording this, I was seeing
an influx of some people calling and it was a
bit odd to me that they were all It didn't
seem like a good thing that people were calling as
we were recording this. So reading this from radio in Philadelphia,
radio has lost one of its most enduring local voices.
WMMR midday host Pierre Robert was found dead at his
(15:31):
home on Wednesday. Robert joined WMMR in nineteen eighty one,
and he became synonymous with the city's rock identity for
more than four decades. His generosity was well known. He
regularly hosted and supported community events, from the AIDS Walk
(15:51):
to the Pie in the Sky fundraiser, champion countless local charities.
In twenty nineteen, his legacy was cemented with his inclusion
on Philadelphia's Music Alliance Walk of Fame, which I was
able to be there for that. I don't even know.
(16:11):
I'm in shock from this announcement. What he meant to
Philadelphia and what Philadelphia meant to him. He was a
transplant from out out West, so he was not I
didn't realize that, not not you know, born and raised
in Philadelphia, but love Philadelphia with all his heart. I
(16:32):
just saw something on social media a week or two
ago of him and one of his co workers seeing
David Byrne I mean went to shows probably if he
could go to a show every night, he would go
to a show every night and was.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Approachable to all the fan base.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Was was always there with with with an open arm
and a and a hug when I went through from
my time working with that station, that great station and
those great people. So I am so saddened buy the news.
So I thought, you know, in real time, like I said,
(17:16):
let's just announce that we're recording this this episode at
the end of October. But rest in peace, Pierre Robert.
There's there's nobody like him, and a sad, sad moment
to report.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You've had a relationship with him.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, this this guy, this guy was was not just
a radio icon.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He was just a He was a He was a
good soul and an icon.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Who walked tall and as he would say, I'll use
his term, goodbye good citizen.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I you know, I never got to meet him,
but I heard you talk about him often over the
years from you know, from time to time, and always
spoke so highly of him.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So this is a sad day for radio and for
people that knew and loved him. He will not be forgotten.
Rest in peace, Pierre Robert.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So ending it on that note, Harry, thank you for
everything for this week in music history.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
This is the week of November the.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Twenty fourth, and we will have another episode on Monday
the first and we're gonna kick.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It off with something about the birds.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Thank you, Harry, and thanks to all you for listening
to this Week in music History on the Taken a
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