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October 11 – Today in Music History

October 11 2016 Rod Stewart

1939 Coleman Hawkins records “Body And Soul.”

1943 Country singer Gene Watson is born in Palestine, Texas.

1955 Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash performed in Abilene, Texas.

1960 Aretha Franklin made her stage debut at the Village Vanguard in New York City.

1964 The Who appeared at Wolsey Hall, Cheshunt, England.

1967 Barbra Streisand’s third TV special, The Belle Of 14th Street, airs on CBS.

October 11 1967 Barbra Streisand

1967 The Doors appeared at Danbury High School, Danbury, Connecticut.

1969 Russell Morris at No.1 on the Australian chart with Part Three into Paper Walls/The Girl That I Love

1969 Muddy Waters is severely injured in a car crash just outside Chicago that leaves three other passengers dead

1970 Elvis Presley is made an honorary “special” deputy sheriff of Bel Air, California.

1975 Saturday Night – a title later changed to Saturday Night Live – made its debut on NBC

1976 Donna Summer’s Four Seasons Of Love concept album is released.

1976 The Sex Pistols recorded their first single, “Anarchy in the U.K.”

1978 Siouxsie And The Banshees, supported by Spizz Oil and The Human League appeared at The Pavilion, Hemel Hempstead, England.

1983 Lionel Richie releases his second solo album, Can’t Slow Down.

1990 Dave Grohl played his first gig with Nirvana when they appeared at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia.

1992 Rapper and reality star Cardi B is born Belcalis Almanzar in Edgewater, New Jersey.

1997 Elton John went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Candle In The Wind 1997”

2006 Madonna adopted a one-year-old boy in Malawi, Africa

2007 Take That kicked off their Beautiful World European tour in Belfast

2009 Barbra Streisand went to No. 1 on the U.S. album charts with Love Is the Answer

2012 The Rolling Stones new single “Doom And Gloom” was released

2013 Lady Gaga makes her movie debut playing shape-shifting assassin La Camaleon in the Robert Rodriguez action-crime flick Machete Kills.

2016 Rod Stewart is knighted at Buckingham Palace, becoming Sir Roderick David Stewart.

October 11 2016 Rod Stewart 

2018 Kanye West, an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, visits the White House

October 11 2018 Kanye West

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