Wednesday, November 20, 2019

20 NOVEMBER

In Music History

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2018Skrillex is ordered to pay $1.6 million to a fan, Jennifer Fraissl, who was injured when he performed a stage dive in 2012 at his show at the Belasco Nightclub in Los Angeles.
2016Ariana Grande wins Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards. Justin Bieber is also a big winner, taking home four trophies. Green Day takes a swipe at Donald Trump, who was elected president two weeks earlier, in their performance of "Bang Bang," going into a chant of "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA."
2013Loretta Lynn is honored at the White House with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The singer is awarded as "one of the first successful female country music vocalists in the early 1960s, courageously breaking barriers in an industry long dominated by men."
2010Little Smokey Smothers, Blues guitarist and singer, dies of natural causes in Chicago, Illinois, at age 71.
2008Newly married Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz (of Fall Out Boy) welcome a baby boy: Bronx Mowgli Wentz.
2007Bob Relf (of the '60s soul duo Bob & Earl) dies at age 70 after a long period of ill health.
2005Blues rocker Chris Whitley dies of lung cancer in Houston, Texas, at age 45.
2005Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor album becomes her ninth UK chart-topper, while "Hung Up" starts its second week at #1 on the singles chart, her 11th on that tally.
2004De La Soul's The Grind Date debuts at #17 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and #10 on the Rap Albums chart.
2003After a long investigation, acclaimed "Wall of Sound" producer Phil Spector is formally charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his home in Los Angeles. Spector enters a plea of not guilty, and is later indicted for murder.
2002After an altercation at a gas station, neo soul singer D'Angelo is arrested at his home. Making matters worse, he resists arrest and is pepper sprayed by police.
2002Stevie Wonder threatens to sue his mother, Lula Hardaway, for a passage in her new autobiography where she claims Stevie lost his virginity to a prostitute. The story is deleted from future copies.
2001Pink releases her second album, M!ssundaztood.
2001Charlie Daniels undergoes surgery in Nashville for prostate cancer.
2001Deana Carter releases Father Christmas.
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Fan Takes Over When Keith Moon Passes Out

1973
After Keith Moon passes out at his drum kit, The Who pull a fan from the audience to take over.

19-year-old Scot Halpin is the lucky fan chosen to complete the set at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. He does an admirable job on the three remaining songs - "Smokestack Lightning," "Spoonful," and "Naked Eye" - and takes a bow with the group. Rolling Stone names him their "Pick-Up Player Of The Year." As for Moon, management blames jet lag, but it probably has something to do with the horse tranquilizers he ingested.

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