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Today In Music History: The Needle And The Damage Done

Posted at 6:44 AM on November 18, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica is 47.
Singer Tim DeLaughter (dee-LAW'-ter) of Polyphonic Spree (and Tripping Daisy) is 44.

Today in:

1970 - Jerry Lee Lewis and his cousin Myra Gale Brown were divorced in Memphis. She had described their recent years together as a nightmare.
1987 - The band U2 opened for itself as a country-rock group called the Dalton Brothers during a Los Angeles concert.
1993 - Nirvana recorded their MTV unplugged special at Sony Studios, New York.
1997 - Police arrested singer Gary Glitter and questioned him about child pornography allegedly found on his computer. He later pleaded guilty to 54 charges of making indecent computer images of children. All together now: "ick."

History highlight:

Today in 1972, Danny Whitten, member of Neil Young's Crazy Horse, died of a drug overdose aged 29. Whitten wrote "I Don't Wanna Talk About It", covered by Rod Stewart, Rita Coolidge and Everything But The Girl. He led a tragic short life, but he was immortalized in song, as Neil Young wrote his classic tune "The Needle and the Damage Done" about Whitten (before he died of an overdose).

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