November 10, 2025 • 23 mins
Episode Description: This Week in Music History - November 10-16 | Pink Floyd, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac & More
Join host Buzz Knight and master of music mayhem and music historian Harry Jacobs for another captivating episode of This Week in Music History, covering November 10-16. Dive deep into legendary moments that shaped rock, pop, and cultural history.
Featured Music History Highlights:
Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” (Nov 10, 1975) - Discover the untold story behind this iconic album’s #1 UK chart debut and its heartbreaking connection to Syd Barrett, who unexpectedly appeared during recording sessions.
Led Zeppelin IV (Nov 12, 1971) - Explore the album featuring “Stairway to Heaven,” “Black Dog,” and “Rock and Roll” that sold 37 million copies worldwide and earned 24x Platinum certification.
Beatles’ “Rubber Soul” (Nov 13, 1965) - Harry reveals why this Abbey Road recording remains one of his favorite Beatles albums, featuring classics like “In My Life,” “Norwegian Wood,” and “Michelle.”
Fleetwood Mac’s Self-Titled Album (Nov 15, 1975) - Learn about Stevie Nicks’ emotional dedication of “Landslide” to her father and the latest rumors about Lindsay Buckingham’s potential reunion with the band.
Additional Topics Covered:
• Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and the incredible story of “Candle in the Wind” selling 660,000 copies in one day after Princess Diana’s funeral
• Freddie Mercury’s final public appearance (Nov 14, 1991) and his AIDS diagnosis announcement
• Donna Summer’s disco classic “MacArthur Park” hitting #1
• Jimi Hendrix’s “Electric Ladyland” chart success
• John Lennon’s only #1 solo single during his lifetime (you’ll be surprised which song it was!)
• Sesame Street’s PBS debut and its cultural impact
• Bob Dylan’s “New Morning” album evolution
Perfect for: Classic rock enthusiasts, music history buffs, Beatles fans, Pink Floyd devotees, and anyone fascinated by the stories behind legendary albums.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Bud's Night, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,
and welcome to another edition of This Week in Music History.
This is for the week of November the tenth, and
I can't believe it's another week that we can conquer
Master music Mayhem. Harry Jacobs, Welcome to Taking a Walk.
I was hoping you were going master music Mayhem. I
(00:25):
really like it. I really like it a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Can I get you?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Do people still use business cards? Would you like me
to get you business cards that say that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, I have some business cards in my car.
I don't you. I mean, you know, we just don't.
That's something like the phone book. They just kind of
went away, you know. People. I've seen people with QR
codes right, you know, on the phone they go, here's
my information, get me this way. But most people just say, hey,
text me, here's my number. You know, you exchange a message.
(00:54):
No more business cards. Oh excuse me, I have to
go over to my fax machine. I'll be right back. Yeah, exactly,
facts of facts.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Let me get the miniograph cranked up.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Remember the original ones on the spool? Oh gosh, all right, anyway, Yeah,
we're here to talk about music. I am the the
con Yeah, amazing, mayhem. Absolutely, I'm ready to rock and
roll this up big week November tenth through the sixteenth.
We're going to start on November tenth. In nineteen seventy five,
(01:26):
and this was when Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
hit number one on the UK album charts. And you know,
I really one of the things I've been enjoying about
doing this and about utilizing Claude AI and other resources
that we have available to us, is that some of
the information and kind of CNN would say, some of
(01:49):
the factoids that are out there are really amazing. The
album was inspired and the song really was inspired by
Sid Barrett, who had left the band in sixty eight
and you know, he had obviously issues with drugs and
the severe mental health issue. He showed up at those sessions.
(02:12):
Did you ever hear that story? No? No, no, he
showed up during the sessions. I'm not sure how he
knew what was going on or where they were, but
the band members didn't recognize him immediately and it was
just a weird thing like, hey, you know, you're you're
leaving or you're fired, or you know, whatever it is.
(02:34):
And then several years later, you show up at this session,
gained an incredible amount of weight, didn't look the same,
and this album ended up being like a you know,
a meditation on absence. And really, I Wish You Were
Here was for him. The song was for him, right that.
(02:56):
Really I didn't know he was there cheat wow. Yeah,
he was there for at least part of it. And
the song. I know. I saw him perform the song
with his daughter at a pub in Ireland. But Polly
Sampson is David Gilmour's wife who's an artist and an author,
and the two of them performed that song in different places.
(03:19):
There's also been some interesting stuff with David Gilmore where
he's showing off the synthesizers that they used in Dark
Side of the Moon. They were brilliant music. They are
brilliant musicians. They're they're still with us. But I figured
you'd enjoy that little tidbit on Wish You Were Here.
That's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
There was some recent you know, further fur flying between
the the Gilmore camp and the Roger Waters camp, essentially saying,
you know, in their own words, hell will freeze over
before there's any chance of those guys getting back together again.
And I think you said her name is Polly Sampson,
(04:02):
David's wife, Is that right.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. I think she was in particular fire in some
shots at Roger Waters. So you know, let's not hold
our breath for a reunion from Pink Floyd.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah. I've got a story about the Wall coming up
and about Roger Waters at some point, and we'll get
into it a little bit more. Brilliant guy, but let's
face it, Roger Waters is an anti semi anti jew,
doesn't care what he says about anything kind of guy.
(04:39):
The police are fascists, thinks. You know, it's just an
issue with authority. And by the way, the Wall really
spoke to that issue. So I don't blame I don't
blame Polly and David for speaking out. Waters has done
it in a really ugly way, and it makes me
sad because I love the music. I saw him run
(04:59):
through the That Wall tour in twenty twelve or eleven
when they came through Vegas, So it's sad that it's
come to that for such an unbelievable You think about
what it would be like to see Pink Floyd. Now
you know what they do right, they do like five
shows in the US at five big stadiums, and it
would be something just crazy and epic and it would
(05:20):
be amazing. But when hell Frais is over right. Nineteen
seventy three November tenth, Elton's Goodbye Yellowbrook Road spent its
second of eight weeks at number one on the Billboard
two hundred. The album, of course, was a big success,
(05:40):
had a bunch of great songs on it, and then
the biggest success to come out of that album was
a re released version of Candle in the Wind. You
remember that, right, I do?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I Sure do Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
In September of ninety seven, win hit number one on
the UK charts. Elton performed the song at Princess Diana's
funeral and it sold to get this right, Thank You
Claude six hundred and sixty thousand copies in its first day, incredible,
(06:18):
almost five million copies, and it was on the Billboard
Top one hundred for over three months. Twenty you know,
four years later after the song came out because of
its meaning with Princess Diana, it sold thirty three million worldwide.
There has not been an album, to the best of
my recollection that was certified diamond or a song rather,
(06:42):
and that was certified diamond. We have platinum, we have gold,
and this was the first diamond. And the other fact
about that song and that version of the either version
of the song, is that Elton said he would never
play it again unless one of Diana's kids asked him
to play. So the song has been retired.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah. Well, in nineteen sixty nine, Sesame Street debuted on PBS,
and this was a big deal to kids. You know,
I was born in sixty six, so you know I
was a PBS kid, right. I watched mister Rogers and
I watched Sesame Street. I remember clearly watching those shows.
(07:22):
When when I was a kid, you were too old
for mister Rogers. Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Some would say, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's not a shot, and I love to take shots
at you on your age, but this is not a
shot on you. I'm just trying to do some math
here in terms of you didn't want mister Rogers. Wasn't
part of your childhood? No?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I actually I was locked in a closet for a
part of my childhood.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
This explains a lot. I could be the maven of
mental health. We could do a special episode. You never
know it could be coming down the pike. The Mister
ra and Sesame Street was amazing. Jim Henson was amazing.
But the Mister Rogers thing. We may have talked about
this at one point. You know, we're coming up on
(08:10):
a year of doing this, by the way, on this
Week in Music History November, I think is a year.
But the Mister Rogers movie, to me was unbelievably moving
and it made me really emotional to see it because
it was a part of the fabric of my life
and just understanding him now as an adult versus when
(08:30):
I was a child and I watched it, and just
his approach to life and who he was. I mean,
those shows Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, and I know
it's a big deal with PBS right now in this country.
I think shows like that are so incredibly valuable. I
have fond memories, and you know, I'm almost sixty and
(08:51):
I remember being you know, five, six seven years old
when I didn't want to be weather man Don Kent
from w b Z, holding a wooden spoon in my
short pants in front of the TV. I was watching
mister Rogers in Sesame Street. I love that that's a
true story. By the way that my father says, Harry
wanted to be don Kent. That is great.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I was traveling through, I believe, the Pittsburgh airport many
moons ago, and there in the middle of the airport
kind of looking around, but people coming up to him.
There was Fred Rogers.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
How funny is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And by the way, picture of the chaos at the
airport even then and at that airport, at that airport.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But yet he.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Couldn't have been someone looking like more grateful to be
in the position that he was in and just nice
to everybody and smiling and living with this aura. So
I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
November eleventh, nineteen seventy, Bob Dylan released New Morning. This
was after what he went through at the Newport Folk
Festival and really when he went from unplugged to plugged,
and this was a more personal sound for him album wise,
after You Know Self Portrait. This it wasn't necessarily back
(10:23):
to folk, but it was a little more storytelling. It
was a little more domestic stuff, not somewhat social commentary
at this point, more domestic life and introspection. I was
never a huge Dylan fan. Until I was an adult.
I was always around it because my father was a
huge Dalan fan, had had the albums were all over
(10:46):
the house. I didn't get it when I was a kid,
but this was an interesting album for him. Were you
a fan of this album? Nemore still to this day?
And I love how over time.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Like a lot of artists, Bruce is one of him.
Dylan certainly is one who is never afraid to go
into the archives and bring out alternate takes and everything.
And some of the takes from the New Morning Sessions
that you know subsequently came out just brilliant, amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah. In nineteen seventy eight, on November eleventh, Donna Summers
MacArthur Park hit number one. I don't spend a lot
of time on pop music here on this week, but
you know I'm a fan of the disco. You know
I'm a fan of the pop music, and that was
a big, big deal. It was kind of an epic song.
It started slow and built and just a great to media,
(11:40):
great pop record.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I have a question, though, did you ever leave the
cakeout in the rain?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I will take that as a shot across the bow.
I do have a very funny story speaking of that.
This has nothing to do with music or music history.
I've got a friend whose name is Michael Perna. He's
a new guy. He's like straight out of the Sopranos,
and he's always got a funny story about life when
you talk to him. And he tells the story once
(12:08):
about something that happened twenty five years ago. He was
in New Jersey on a rainy Sunday. He has twin girls.
He goes to the bakery to buy a birthday cake.
He comes out of the store, he puts the kids
in their car seats, and he starts driving down the road.
And someone pulls up next to him and starts honking
the horn, and he starts with the hands, what you
(12:30):
want a piece of me? You want a piece of me?
What's wrong? The guy rolls down his window and says, no,
you got a birthday cake on your roof and the rain.
Nineteen eighteen. World War One ended with the armistice signed
on the basically in the eleventh hour of the eleventh
day of the eleventh month, eleven eleven. Pretty crazy. I
(12:54):
was not there, No, you weren't was this was just
for your birth nineteen eighteen. Thank you November twelfth, nineteen
seventy one, led Zeppelin four was released Stairwoid Heaven, Black Dog,
Rock and Roll When the Levee Breaks I mean just
and and and sold thirty seven million copies worldwide. In
(13:19):
the US, it was certified twenty four times platinum, twenty
four million units. And the streaming info is crazy. On
Spotify alone, this is insane. Two point four billion streams
on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And those that own the you know, the rights to
that probably made about four hundred and fifty dollars from
those streams.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's disgusting what the artists get from the streams.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Maybe four hundred and fifty thousand, but probably not much
more than that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Whatever it is doesn't compare to the to the billions
of streams that it's gotten. YEP. November twelfth, nineteen sixty eight,
Jiman Hendricks Electric Lady Land hit one in the US.
Remember the cover of that album, how crazy that was
just color and art and yep. Fantastic album. And November thirteenth,
we go to the next day. I got a shout
(14:12):
out to Jason the Cheese guy, Justin Justin Sorry, I
always you know, I always screw sometimes my short term
memory buzz. I'm sorry, Justin Justin the cheese guy, yep
In Carlisle, No, well conquered, the cheese conquered. You know what,
I'm gonna put a sticky note on my screen. It's
(14:32):
gonna go at the top of our script. Justin Conquered Cheese.
Send the bree nineteen sixty five, The Beatles Rubber Soul.
This concluded at Abbey Road Studios. This is you've said this.
This is one of your favorite Beatles albums, No doubt.
I've just seen a face Norwegian Wood. You won't see
(14:54):
me so catchy. Michelle was on that girl I'm Looking
through You. I love that In My Life is a
great goodbye song, right, one of the greatest songs. I mean,
they're all great, but that's one of the greatest ever. Yeah,
and Run for Your Life a cool one. Just one
(15:15):
of those you could just throw on and that's right.
You know you're good to go. November fourteenth. In nineteen seventy,
Santana's a Praxis hit number one on the Billboard two hundred.
There's an album with two really great songs. Legendary Santana's
songs Oye Cmova and Black Magic woman both on that album.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Love that band, Love Carlos still at it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, and you know, a unique band similar to you
know what Ted Nugent was at the beginning in others
over the years where he's traded out different singers and
he never sang and just played and traded out the vocals.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He loves to play. He loves to play.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And he's a great player. And I've heard him explain
and talk about his guitar playing style, which I'm a
geek for that. I always enjoy watching him talk about
his his playing and how he does things. Nineteen ninety one,
Freddie Mercury made what would be his final appearance at
the unveiling of the brit Awards Queen Statue in London,
(16:23):
and you know, I ended up passing away not long
after that, about I think nine days or so. On
the on the twenty third he passed away. He Freddy
had AIDS and he announced on November I think November
twenty third that he had AIDS and then on the
(16:43):
twenty fourth he passed away. Well, so it was ten
days after the after that final appearance, but on the
ninth day he said I am sick. I do have AIDS.
And on the next day he did pass away. He
kept that diagnosis private. I think we all knew something
was going on with his health. Yes, now, it wasn't
(17:04):
like the internet is now, but you know you'd see
him and go, he's not not looking good. He was
only forty five years old, and tragedy, an incredible tragedy,
and at forty five, that would make you old enough
to be his father. At this point, Bus, I'm just saying,
that's all. I can't get through one of these episodes
(17:25):
without taking a shot at you. You could have been
a young father. You never know, you never know. No,
you don't, you don't.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
November fifteen, nineteen seventy five, Fleetwood Mac released their self
titled album, Rhiannon Landslide, a song that Stevie dedicates to
her dad, A really moving song.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But the song, it's such a great album, such a
great song it's in. I think it's one of her best,
you know, best pieces of work Stevie's.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know when you see video of Stevie and Lindsay
on stage just playing it together, and you know the
way she looks at him, Yeah, you know, you could
tell the love that was there between the two of
them two.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, now they can't be even anywhere near the same
zip code.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Probably now they're hatfields of McCoys. Oh yeah, well I'll
tell you I'll tell you this. There's stuff going on.
The rumor mill says there' stuff going on with Fleetwood
Mac and Lindsey Buckingham, which is not true. Lindsay is
working on some stuff with Mick Fleetwood. Oh okay, so
there's a there's a solo project that Mick is doing.
(18:37):
Oh okay, and that's about it. I will tell you
this that one of the things that they are saying
is that that things have cooled or have softened between
the bandmates, the remaining bandmates at this point. Will we
ever see another you know, Fleetwood Mac show with Lindsay.
(19:02):
Probably not. You know, Mike Campbell. I think Mike Campbell
and t Bone stepped in when Lindsay ended up getting
the boot from the vand yeah, that's right, tour right, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And by the way, one of my favorite bits ever
on Saturday Night Live, What's up with That?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Lindsay? Yeah, Lindzah, What's up with that? Was so funny.
I forgot about Lindsay on.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
What's It with that Lindsay Lindsay even appeared as Lindsay.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He did, He did. It was a great. Nineteen fifty six,
Elvis made his film debut debut. This is a mistake
across the board. Elvis did a lot of things really well,
shook his ass real well, sayg Greg but an actor,
he was not well. It was bad.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I feel like there was a role or two that
wasn't him being a parody of himself. But I guess
I will I will generally agree with you on that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
He was so so affable, like when you see him
on television interviews or you know, I watched the stuff
on the sixty eight special, and you know you see
him kind of talking to the crowd and just being
his charming self. Polite, very polite, Yeah, very polite, very charming.
And I just think them pushing him into acting as
(20:20):
a way to make money and build his popularity was
you know, it was not great. It wasn't It wasn't
the good That no good, Colonel Parker, Yeah, money Grubber.
November sixteenth, nineteen seventy four, John Lennon topped the Billboard
Hot one hundred with his only number one single during
(20:42):
his lifetime as a solo artist. Do you know what
that song is? John Lennon only number one single is
a solo artist? Imagine, I don't think you're gonna know.
That's what I thought too. Whatever gets you through the night?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, great song, but awesome? Did it seem like a
number one right? Right? Nineteen eighty one, the Police released
Ghost in the Machine and among other songs that were
on there, every Little Thing she Does is Magic was
on there. Always thought that was a fun song that
one crossed over right. The rock radio stations played it.
(21:17):
We played I was working at an AC station, you know,
we played that song. One of the things that's happening
online in one of the Instagram feeds that I follow
is called Drummyoh are you familiar with that dru m?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
E O No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know, they'll take a drummer and they'll say, okay,
we're gonna play you. You know, we're gonna play you
do you Love Me by Kiss? So we're gonna play
shout it out loud by kiss or you know someone
from different worlds and they play it without the drum track,
and they let these famous drummers play other people's songs,
oh well, which is really kind of cool. But the
other thing that they do is they will take an
(21:56):
artist like you know, Stuart Copeland, and they will ask
him to play along with something. And they did a
whole series with him. But the clip I saw was
him recreating the drums and every little thing she does
it's magic. I'm just a geek for that stuff. I
like watching how even though I don't play drums, I
like watching that kind of stuff. If you're a music fan,
(22:18):
check them out on Instagram. Drummyoh, this is the last
one for the week. And I think I know the
answer to this, but I don't know, because there are
a lot of people that like this and it surprises
me often when I hear that they do. But in
two thousand and one, the first Harry Potter film came out.
Were you ever into Harry Potter?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
No, my daughter was for a period, but no, I
was not. I think I actually went to one of
the the openings or whatever with her and took a
very healthy nap at that particular show.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm in the same boat.
I wouldn't watch it. The books were epic. The books
were like eight hundred pages. I believe. Not only did
I not read the books, I didn't go see the movie.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, there you go, but a phenomenon, so.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, for sure. Absolutely So with that, that will bring
to a close this week, the week in November tenth
through the sixteenth, and music history.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, thank you, Harry, it's quite a week. As always,
you took us through it brilliantly. Thank you for all
your work, and thanks to all of you for listening
to the Taking a Walk podcast and this episode of
This Week in Music History.
I'm Bud's Night, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,
and welcome to another edition of This Week in Music History.
This is for the week of November the tenth, and
I can't believe it's another week that we can conquer
Master music Mayhem. Harry Jacobs, Welcome to Taking a Walk.
I was hoping you were going master music Mayhem. I
(00:25):
really like it. I really like it a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Can I get you?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Do people still use business cards? Would you like me
to get you business cards that say that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, I have some business cards in my car.
I don't you. I mean, you know, we just don't.
That's something like the phone book. They just kind of
went away, you know. People. I've seen people with QR
codes right, you know, on the phone they go, here's
my information, get me this way. But most people just say, hey,
text me, here's my number. You know, you exchange a message.
(00:54):
No more business cards. Oh excuse me, I have to
go over to my fax machine. I'll be right back. Yeah, exactly,
facts of facts.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Let me get the miniograph cranked up.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Remember the original ones on the spool? Oh gosh, all right, anyway, Yeah,
we're here to talk about music. I am the the
con Yeah, amazing, mayhem. Absolutely, I'm ready to rock and
roll this up big week November tenth through the sixteenth.
We're going to start on November tenth. In nineteen seventy five,
(01:26):
and this was when Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
hit number one on the UK album charts. And you know,
I really one of the things I've been enjoying about
doing this and about utilizing Claude AI and other resources
that we have available to us, is that some of
the information and kind of CNN would say, some of
(01:49):
the factoids that are out there are really amazing. The
album was inspired and the song really was inspired by
Sid Barrett, who had left the band in sixty eight
and you know, he had obviously issues with drugs and
the severe mental health issue. He showed up at those sessions.
(02:12):
Did you ever hear that story? No? No, no, he
showed up during the sessions. I'm not sure how he
knew what was going on or where they were, but
the band members didn't recognize him immediately and it was
just a weird thing like, hey, you know, you're you're
leaving or you're fired, or you know, whatever it is.
(02:34):
And then several years later, you show up at this session,
gained an incredible amount of weight, didn't look the same,
and this album ended up being like a you know,
a meditation on absence. And really, I Wish You Were
Here was for him. The song was for him, right that.
(02:56):
Really I didn't know he was there cheat wow. Yeah,
he was there for at least part of it. And
the song. I know. I saw him perform the song
with his daughter at a pub in Ireland. But Polly
Sampson is David Gilmour's wife who's an artist and an author,
and the two of them performed that song in different places.
(03:19):
There's also been some interesting stuff with David Gilmore where
he's showing off the synthesizers that they used in Dark
Side of the Moon. They were brilliant music. They are
brilliant musicians. They're they're still with us. But I figured
you'd enjoy that little tidbit on Wish You Were Here.
That's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
There was some recent you know, further fur flying between
the the Gilmore camp and the Roger Waters camp, essentially saying,
you know, in their own words, hell will freeze over
before there's any chance of those guys getting back together again.
And I think you said her name is Polly Sampson,
(04:02):
David's wife, Is that right.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. I think she was in particular fire in some
shots at Roger Waters. So you know, let's not hold
our breath for a reunion from Pink Floyd.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah. I've got a story about the Wall coming up
and about Roger Waters at some point, and we'll get
into it a little bit more. Brilliant guy, but let's
face it, Roger Waters is an anti semi anti jew,
doesn't care what he says about anything kind of guy.
(04:39):
The police are fascists, thinks. You know, it's just an
issue with authority. And by the way, the Wall really
spoke to that issue. So I don't blame I don't
blame Polly and David for speaking out. Waters has done
it in a really ugly way, and it makes me
sad because I love the music. I saw him run
(04:59):
through the That Wall tour in twenty twelve or eleven
when they came through Vegas, So it's sad that it's
come to that for such an unbelievable You think about
what it would be like to see Pink Floyd. Now
you know what they do right, they do like five
shows in the US at five big stadiums, and it
would be something just crazy and epic and it would
(05:20):
be amazing. But when hell Frais is over right. Nineteen
seventy three November tenth, Elton's Goodbye Yellowbrook Road spent its
second of eight weeks at number one on the Billboard
two hundred. The album, of course, was a big success,
(05:40):
had a bunch of great songs on it, and then
the biggest success to come out of that album was
a re released version of Candle in the Wind. You
remember that, right, I do?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I Sure do Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
In September of ninety seven, win hit number one on
the UK charts. Elton performed the song at Princess Diana's
funeral and it sold to get this right, Thank You
Claude six hundred and sixty thousand copies in its first day, incredible,
(06:18):
almost five million copies, and it was on the Billboard
Top one hundred for over three months. Twenty you know,
four years later after the song came out because of
its meaning with Princess Diana, it sold thirty three million worldwide.
There has not been an album, to the best of
my recollection that was certified diamond or a song rather,
(06:42):
and that was certified diamond. We have platinum, we have gold,
and this was the first diamond. And the other fact
about that song and that version of the either version
of the song, is that Elton said he would never
play it again unless one of Diana's kids asked him
to play. So the song has been retired.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah. Well, in nineteen sixty nine, Sesame Street debuted on PBS,
and this was a big deal to kids. You know,
I was born in sixty six, so you know I
was a PBS kid, right. I watched mister Rogers and
I watched Sesame Street. I remember clearly watching those shows.
(07:22):
When when I was a kid, you were too old
for mister Rogers. Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Some would say, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's not a shot, and I love to take shots
at you on your age, but this is not a
shot on you. I'm just trying to do some math
here in terms of you didn't want mister Rogers. Wasn't
part of your childhood? No?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I actually I was locked in a closet for a
part of my childhood.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
This explains a lot. I could be the maven of
mental health. We could do a special episode. You never
know it could be coming down the pike. The Mister
ra and Sesame Street was amazing. Jim Henson was amazing.
But the Mister Rogers thing. We may have talked about
this at one point. You know, we're coming up on
(08:10):
a year of doing this, by the way, on this
Week in Music History November, I think is a year.
But the Mister Rogers movie, to me was unbelievably moving
and it made me really emotional to see it because
it was a part of the fabric of my life
and just understanding him now as an adult versus when
(08:30):
I was a child and I watched it, and just
his approach to life and who he was. I mean,
those shows Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, and I know
it's a big deal with PBS right now in this country.
I think shows like that are so incredibly valuable. I
have fond memories, and you know, I'm almost sixty and
(08:51):
I remember being you know, five, six seven years old
when I didn't want to be weather man Don Kent
from w b Z, holding a wooden spoon in my
short pants in front of the TV. I was watching
mister Rogers in Sesame Street. I love that that's a
true story. By the way that my father says, Harry
wanted to be don Kent. That is great.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I was traveling through, I believe, the Pittsburgh airport many
moons ago, and there in the middle of the airport
kind of looking around, but people coming up to him.
There was Fred Rogers.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
How funny is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And by the way, picture of the chaos at the
airport even then and at that airport, at that airport.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But yet he.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Couldn't have been someone looking like more grateful to be
in the position that he was in and just nice
to everybody and smiling and living with this aura. So
I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
November eleventh, nineteen seventy, Bob Dylan released New Morning. This
was after what he went through at the Newport Folk
Festival and really when he went from unplugged to plugged,
and this was a more personal sound for him album wise,
after You Know Self Portrait. This it wasn't necessarily back
(10:23):
to folk, but it was a little more storytelling. It
was a little more domestic stuff, not somewhat social commentary
at this point, more domestic life and introspection. I was
never a huge Dylan fan. Until I was an adult.
I was always around it because my father was a
huge Dalan fan, had had the albums were all over
(10:46):
the house. I didn't get it when I was a kid,
but this was an interesting album for him. Were you
a fan of this album? Nemore still to this day?
And I love how over time.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Like a lot of artists, Bruce is one of him.
Dylan certainly is one who is never afraid to go
into the archives and bring out alternate takes and everything.
And some of the takes from the New Morning Sessions
that you know subsequently came out just brilliant, amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah. In nineteen seventy eight, on November eleventh, Donna Summers
MacArthur Park hit number one. I don't spend a lot
of time on pop music here on this week, but
you know I'm a fan of the disco. You know
I'm a fan of the pop music, and that was
a big, big deal. It was kind of an epic song.
It started slow and built and just a great to media,
(11:40):
great pop record.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I have a question, though, did you ever leave the
cakeout in the rain?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I will take that as a shot across the bow.
I do have a very funny story speaking of that.
This has nothing to do with music or music history.
I've got a friend whose name is Michael Perna. He's
a new guy. He's like straight out of the Sopranos,
and he's always got a funny story about life when
you talk to him. And he tells the story once
(12:08):
about something that happened twenty five years ago. He was
in New Jersey on a rainy Sunday. He has twin girls.
He goes to the bakery to buy a birthday cake.
He comes out of the store, he puts the kids
in their car seats, and he starts driving down the road.
And someone pulls up next to him and starts honking
the horn, and he starts with the hands, what you
(12:30):
want a piece of me? You want a piece of me?
What's wrong? The guy rolls down his window and says, no,
you got a birthday cake on your roof and the rain.
Nineteen eighteen. World War One ended with the armistice signed
on the basically in the eleventh hour of the eleventh
day of the eleventh month, eleven eleven. Pretty crazy. I
(12:54):
was not there, No, you weren't was this was just
for your birth nineteen eighteen. Thank you November twelfth, nineteen
seventy one, led Zeppelin four was released Stairwoid Heaven, Black Dog,
Rock and Roll When the Levee Breaks I mean just
and and and sold thirty seven million copies worldwide. In
(13:19):
the US, it was certified twenty four times platinum, twenty
four million units. And the streaming info is crazy. On
Spotify alone, this is insane. Two point four billion streams
on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And those that own the you know, the rights to
that probably made about four hundred and fifty dollars from
those streams.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's disgusting what the artists get from the streams.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Maybe four hundred and fifty thousand, but probably not much
more than that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Whatever it is doesn't compare to the to the billions
of streams that it's gotten. YEP. November twelfth, nineteen sixty eight,
Jiman Hendricks Electric Lady Land hit one in the US.
Remember the cover of that album, how crazy that was
just color and art and yep. Fantastic album. And November thirteenth,
we go to the next day. I got a shout
(14:12):
out to Jason the Cheese guy, Justin Justin Sorry, I
always you know, I always screw sometimes my short term
memory buzz. I'm sorry, Justin Justin the cheese guy, yep
In Carlisle, No, well conquered, the cheese conquered. You know what,
I'm gonna put a sticky note on my screen. It's
(14:32):
gonna go at the top of our script. Justin Conquered Cheese.
Send the bree nineteen sixty five, The Beatles Rubber Soul.
This concluded at Abbey Road Studios. This is you've said this.
This is one of your favorite Beatles albums, No doubt.
I've just seen a face Norwegian Wood. You won't see
(14:54):
me so catchy. Michelle was on that girl I'm Looking
through You. I love that In My Life is a
great goodbye song, right, one of the greatest songs. I mean,
they're all great, but that's one of the greatest ever. Yeah,
and Run for Your Life a cool one. Just one
(15:15):
of those you could just throw on and that's right.
You know you're good to go. November fourteenth. In nineteen seventy,
Santana's a Praxis hit number one on the Billboard two hundred.
There's an album with two really great songs. Legendary Santana's
songs Oye Cmova and Black Magic woman both on that album.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Love that band, Love Carlos still at it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, and you know, a unique band similar to you
know what Ted Nugent was at the beginning in others
over the years where he's traded out different singers and
he never sang and just played and traded out the vocals.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He loves to play. He loves to play.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And he's a great player. And I've heard him explain
and talk about his guitar playing style, which I'm a
geek for that. I always enjoy watching him talk about
his his playing and how he does things. Nineteen ninety one,
Freddie Mercury made what would be his final appearance at
the unveiling of the brit Awards Queen Statue in London,
(16:23):
and you know, I ended up passing away not long
after that, about I think nine days or so. On
the on the twenty third he passed away. He Freddy
had AIDS and he announced on November I think November
twenty third that he had AIDS and then on the
(16:43):
twenty fourth he passed away. Well, so it was ten
days after the after that final appearance, but on the
ninth day he said I am sick. I do have AIDS.
And on the next day he did pass away. He
kept that diagnosis private. I think we all knew something
was going on with his health. Yes, now, it wasn't
(17:04):
like the internet is now, but you know you'd see
him and go, he's not not looking good. He was
only forty five years old, and tragedy, an incredible tragedy,
and at forty five, that would make you old enough
to be his father. At this point, Bus, I'm just saying,
that's all. I can't get through one of these episodes
(17:25):
without taking a shot at you. You could have been
a young father. You never know, you never know. No,
you don't, you don't.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
November fifteen, nineteen seventy five, Fleetwood Mac released their self
titled album, Rhiannon Landslide, a song that Stevie dedicates to
her dad, A really moving song.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But the song, it's such a great album, such a
great song it's in. I think it's one of her best,
you know, best pieces of work Stevie's.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know when you see video of Stevie and Lindsay
on stage just playing it together, and you know the
way she looks at him, Yeah, you know, you could
tell the love that was there between the two of
them two.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, now they can't be even anywhere near the same
zip code.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Probably now they're hatfields of McCoys. Oh yeah, well I'll
tell you I'll tell you this. There's stuff going on.
The rumor mill says there' stuff going on with Fleetwood
Mac and Lindsey Buckingham, which is not true. Lindsay is
working on some stuff with Mick Fleetwood. Oh okay, so
there's a there's a solo project that Mick is doing.
(18:37):
Oh okay, and that's about it. I will tell you
this that one of the things that they are saying
is that that things have cooled or have softened between
the bandmates, the remaining bandmates at this point. Will we
ever see another you know, Fleetwood Mac show with Lindsay.
(19:02):
Probably not. You know, Mike Campbell. I think Mike Campbell
and t Bone stepped in when Lindsay ended up getting
the boot from the vand yeah, that's right, tour right, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And by the way, one of my favorite bits ever
on Saturday Night Live, What's up with That?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Lindsay? Yeah, Lindzah, What's up with that? Was so funny.
I forgot about Lindsay on.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
What's It with that Lindsay Lindsay even appeared as Lindsay.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He did, He did. It was a great. Nineteen fifty six,
Elvis made his film debut debut. This is a mistake
across the board. Elvis did a lot of things really well,
shook his ass real well, sayg Greg but an actor,
he was not well. It was bad.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I feel like there was a role or two that
wasn't him being a parody of himself. But I guess
I will I will generally agree with you on that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
He was so so affable, like when you see him
on television interviews or you know, I watched the stuff
on the sixty eight special, and you know you see
him kind of talking to the crowd and just being
his charming self. Polite, very polite, Yeah, very polite, very charming.
And I just think them pushing him into acting as
(20:20):
a way to make money and build his popularity was
you know, it was not great. It wasn't It wasn't
the good That no good, Colonel Parker, Yeah, money Grubber.
November sixteenth, nineteen seventy four, John Lennon topped the Billboard
Hot one hundred with his only number one single during
(20:42):
his lifetime as a solo artist. Do you know what
that song is? John Lennon only number one single is
a solo artist? Imagine, I don't think you're gonna know.
That's what I thought too. Whatever gets you through the night?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, great song, but awesome? Did it seem like a
number one right? Right? Nineteen eighty one, the Police released
Ghost in the Machine and among other songs that were
on there, every Little Thing she Does is Magic was
on there. Always thought that was a fun song that
one crossed over right. The rock radio stations played it.
(21:17):
We played I was working at an AC station, you know,
we played that song. One of the things that's happening
online in one of the Instagram feeds that I follow
is called Drummyoh are you familiar with that dru m?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
E O No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know, they'll take a drummer and they'll say, okay,
we're gonna play you. You know, we're gonna play you
do you Love Me by Kiss? So we're gonna play
shout it out loud by kiss or you know someone
from different worlds and they play it without the drum track,
and they let these famous drummers play other people's songs,
oh well, which is really kind of cool. But the
other thing that they do is they will take an
(21:56):
artist like you know, Stuart Copeland, and they will ask
him to play along with something. And they did a
whole series with him. But the clip I saw was
him recreating the drums and every little thing she does
it's magic. I'm just a geek for that stuff. I
like watching how even though I don't play drums, I
like watching that kind of stuff. If you're a music fan,
(22:18):
check them out on Instagram. Drummyoh, this is the last
one for the week. And I think I know the
answer to this, but I don't know, because there are
a lot of people that like this and it surprises
me often when I hear that they do. But in
two thousand and one, the first Harry Potter film came out.
Were you ever into Harry Potter?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
No, my daughter was for a period, but no, I
was not. I think I actually went to one of
the the openings or whatever with her and took a
very healthy nap at that particular show.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm in the same boat.
I wouldn't watch it. The books were epic. The books
were like eight hundred pages. I believe. Not only did
I not read the books, I didn't go see the movie.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, there you go, but a phenomenon, so.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, for sure. Absolutely So with that, that will bring
to a close this week, the week in November tenth
through the sixteenth, and music history.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, thank you, Harry, it's quite a week. As always,
you took us through it brilliantly. Thank you for all
your work, and thanks to all of you for listening
to the Taking a Walk podcast and this episode of
This Week in Music History.
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