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Glen Campbell, the handsome country guitar player, singer and television star, played his final concert on November 30, 2012 in Napa, California, surrounded by family and friends.
Campbell embarked on The Goodbye Tour soon after he announced he was afflicted by the degenerative brain disease Alzheimer's.
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It was the most unlikely of pairings, and yet it turned into one of the best duets and Christmas duos of all time.
On this day in 1977, the crooner opened the door on his last televised Christmas special, Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, and welcomed David Bowie inside.
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Is there anything better than when your favorite musician gets up on stage with your other favorite star?
On-stage collabs are the cherry-on-top of live performances and one of the delicious bonuses that can happen when you least expect it.
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Bobby Darin accomplished a feat in 1959 that will probably never be repeated again: he won the Grammy for Record of the Year at the same time the song was #1 on the charts.
"Mack The Knife," a song written before Darin was born, by German legends Kurt Weill (music) and Bertolt Brecht (lyrics), and had been covered by plenty of others, was topping the charts for the teen idol at the same time the fledgling Grammys were holding their second awards ceremony ever - and first to be televised.
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Elton John and John Lennon were good friends who made a bet in early 1974, which thank goodness, the piano player won.
The ever-adventurous John decided he didn't want to fly from London to NYC during his six week break between the end of his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Tour and the start of the Caribou Tour. He chose to take the band and Lennon's son, Julian, on a cruise across the pond on the SS France.
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Ed Sheeran sure loves popping up in places.
Last week the adorable singer/songwriter was waiting inside a giant box on 50 Cent's stage. On the outside were written the words "There's A Monster in the Box."
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So much is written about our favorite music artists, but not until they tell the stories themselves are we blessed with the real inside information.
While not every narrator is reliable, for the most part music memoirs become the Truth until otherwise debunked.
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Stevie Nicks flew the coop in 1981 away from the hugely popular Fleetwood Mac to spread her wings with a solo album, Bella Donna, and a corresponding mini-tour.
Dubbed the White Winged Dove Tour after a line in her new tune, "Edge of Seventeen," the singer visited a dozen venues in Texas and the west coast before quickly reuniting with the Mac in France where they were recording Mirage.
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Pulp delighted their fans in Mexico City on Nov. 17 with a live debut of their new song, "Background Noise."
The Britpop legends who are winding up a reunion tour titled This Is What We Do for an Encore 2023, which started in the summer, took a break at the end of July and have been entertaining fans south of the border this month.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan, the guitar hero from Dallas, Texas, kicked off his epic Live Alive Tour on November 22nd, 1986 in Maryland.
Vaughan and his band Double Trouble would go on to play 215 gigs for the tour which was supporting their live double album of the same name.
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Adam Sandler live debuted the hilarious "Thanksgiving Song" on SNL on November 21, 1992, less than a year after becoming a cast member.
Sandler along with fellow cast member Kevin Nealon introduced the world to what became the most popular ode to Thanksgiving during the Weekend Update segment during the long-running series' 18th season.
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Wendy Carlos is an innovative genius who even shocked her own record label when her debut album, the synthesized retooling of classic J.S. Bach pieces, Switched-On Bach flew off the shelves and became one of the best selling classical albums in history.
In fact, on November 21, 1986, the RIAA certified the album on Columbia Records platinum after it had sold it's millionth copy.
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