This Day in Music History – November 4th

1961 – Bob Dylan made his Carnegie Chapter Hall debut in New York City. The show was seen by 50 people who paid two dollars each at Carnegie Hall.

1971 – Bob Dylan recorded the song “George Jackson.” Jackson was a black militant what had been killed in a California prison shootout.

1973 – Soft Machine and Pink Floyd held a benefit concert for Robert Wyatt who had been paralyzed earlier in the year.

1978 – Greg Reeves, sued his former band Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young for $1 million in unpaid back royalties.

1988 – The U2 concert movie “Rattle and Hum” opened in the U.S. and the U.K. It opened in Ireland on October 27.


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