What happened on November 25
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197650 yrs ago
The Band plays The Last Waltz
Their Thanksgiving farewell at Winterland brought out Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and more, and Martin Scorsese filmed it all.
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198442 yrs ago
Band Aid records "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Pop stars packed a London studio to raise money for famine relief. The single sold a million copies in its first week in the UK.
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199531 yrs ago
Whitney Houston's "Exhale" debuts at No. 1
It was only the third song ever to enter the Hot 100 at the top, after hits by Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey.
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199729 yrs ago
Garth Brooks releases Sevens
The country superstar's album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and included "Two Piña Coladas."
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201313 yrs ago
The Frozen soundtrack is released
It spent 13 weeks at No. 1, and "Let It Go" won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
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1787239 yrs ago
Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of "Silent Night," is born
The Austrian organist set a poem by priest Joseph Mohr to music, and the two first sang it at Christmas Mass in 1818.
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1924102 yrs ago
Paul Desmond, who wrote "Take Five," is born
The Dave Brubeck Quartet's alto saxophonist composed the group's biggest hit, which has outsold every other jazz song ever recorded.
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194086 yrs ago
Soul singer Percy Sledge is born
"When a Man Loves a Woman" went to No. 1 in 1966 and was Atlantic Records' first gold record.
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196858 yrs ago
EPMD's Erick Sermon is born
The Long Island native was one-third of the hip-hop group EPMD, and his highest-charting song, "Music," was built around Marvin Gaye's voice.
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197452 yrs ago
Folk singer Nick Drake dies at 26
Barely known in his lifetime, he found a huge new audience after "Pink Moon" appeared in a 1999 Volkswagen ad.
Nothing matches these filters on November 25.