What happened on November 26
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1921105 yrs ago
Langgaard's otherworldly Music of the Spheres premieres
The Danish composer's piece was first heard in Karlsruhe. When György Ligeti saw the score in the late 1960s, he declared himself a Langgaard follower.
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194581 yrs ago
Charlie Parker leads a landmark bebop session for Savoy
Billed as the "greatest Jazz session ever," the date put Parker alongside Dizzy Gillespie, a young Miles Davis, Curley Russell and Max Roach.
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196264 yrs ago
The Beatles cut the speeded-up "Please Please Me"
George Martin had found the first, slower version dreary. The livelier arrangement took 18 takes, and Martin told them right away that this one would give them their first big hit.
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196858 yrs ago
Cream say goodbye at the Royal Albert Hall
The power trio of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker played the second of two farewell nights. They would not return to that stage together until 2005.
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197650 yrs ago
Sex Pistols release "Anarchy in the U.K."
Their debut single reached only No. 38 before EMI dropped the band in January. It stayed the only Sex Pistols record EMI ever put out.
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193987 yrs ago
Tina Turner is born in Brownsville, Tennessee
Decades into her career, she came back with the multi-platinum Private Dancer. "What's Love Got to Do with It" became her only Hot 100 No. 1 and won the Grammy for Record of the Year.
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197551 yrs ago
DJ Khaled is born in New Orleans
The hitmaker built songs around big-name guest lists. "I'm the One," with Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne, went to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2017.
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199234 yrs ago
Latin trap star Anuel AA is born in Puerto Rico
XXL counts him among the genre's founders. His 2019 posse cut "China" with Daddy Yankee, Karol G, Ozuna and J Balvin became a global hit.
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195670 yrs ago
Bandleader Tommy Dorsey dies at 51
His smooth trombone theme "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" is in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and he hired a young Frank Sinatra in 1940. "I'll Never Smile Again" spent 12 weeks at No. 1.
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20215 yrs ago
Broadway giant Stephen Sondheim dies at 91
He wrote the lyrics for West Side Story. His best-known song, "Send in the Clowns," became a hit for Judy Collins and drew versions from Sinatra and Streisand.
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