Week of November 27th

Take a look back at this week in Rock & Roll History

Episode Transcript

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What happened this week in rock androll history? Let's find out? It's
the rock Omanac on iHeartRadio. What'sgoing on Rockers and Rollers? It's and
Andy West. Let's get it started. We kick it off. This week
in nineteen seventy, George Harrison releasesAll Things Must Pass, his first solo
album since the breakup of the Beatles. The first single, My Sweet Lord,

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becomes the first ex Beatles solo numberone in the UK and the US.
This week in nineteen seventy four,Elton John's Greatest Hits album hits number
one in America, where it staysfor the last five weeks of nineteen seventy
four and the first five of nineteenseventy five. It would be the first
of seventeen compilation albums Elton has releasedover the years. This week, in

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nineteen seventy seven, Bing Crosby's lastChristmas Special Airs. The program was recorded
in September and Crosby died that October. The show is remembered for Crosby's unusual
duet with David Bowie, where theysing a modified version of Little Drummer Boy,
with Bowie singing the new Peace onEarth lyrics composed by the show's writers.
This week in nineteen eighty six,You Give Love a Bad Name by

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bon Jo Egos to number one inthe US, giving the group their first
number one. This week, inthe year two thousand, the original Smashing
Pumpkins play their final show at theMetro in Chicago, the club where they
played their first show twelve years earlier. The main set concluded with the songs,

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and this week in twenty fifteen,we lost Stone Temple, Pilots and
Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland at ageforty eight after his long struggle with substance
abuse. And that's what went down. You're rock Omanac on iHeartRadio.