Breaking news

This year, Arlo Guthrie celebrated 50 years since the release of his Thanksgiving classic, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre.” For Guthrie’s take on the song’s fame and the meaning behind it, check out this interview he did with 90.9 WBUR:

Albums, singles, and tours

• Tom Petty’s Fenway Park concert will appear on Palladia on November 29 at 9 PM Eastern, as part of their “Tom Petty Thanksgiving Takeover” marathon.
• Ringo Starr is auctioning off a collection of Beatles memorabilia that includes the original pressing of the White Album, stamped ‘No. 0000001’. Check out the memorabilia (plus many of Starr’s personal items and artworks) here.
• Jimmy Page is reportedly recording a solo album beginning in 2016. In a recent interview with Virgin Media, Page stated: “[M]y last solo album was 1988. I haven’t really milked the situation; it’s time to do another one.”
• A documentary about Janis Joplin, entitled Janis: Little Girl Blue, will air on the PBS series American Masters sometime in early 2016.

Happy birthday!

• November 26 – John McVie of Fleetwood Mac (born in 1945)
• November 27 – Jimi Hendrix, musician (born in 1942)
• November 29 – Dennis Doherty of The Mamas & The Papas (born in 1941), Felix Cavaliere of the Rascals (1944)

Danielle Zabielski

Danielle Zabielski (aka “that girl who loves the Bee Gees more than anything else in the whole wide world”) is an artist, freelancer, and radio producer based in Philadelphia. Art and music are the two loves of her life, particularly the art and music of the 1960s through ‘70s.