NOVEMBER 10
ON NOVEMBER 10, 1975, PATTI SMITH RELEASED HER DEBUT ALBUM HORSES. IT BECAME A LANDMARK RECORD—MELDING PUNK EDGE, POETRY, AND AVANT-GARDE ART SENSIBILITY—AND INSPIRED ARTISTS ACROSS ALT‑ROCK, NEW WAVE, AND BEYOND.
R.E.M. FIRST HIT THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 WITH THEIR RE-RECORDED SINGLE ‘RADIO FREE EUROPE’ FROM THEIR 1983 DEBUT ALBUM MURMUR. THOUGH THE SONG WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN AN EARLIER VERSION IN 1981, THE MURMUR RECORDING BROUGHT THEM NATIONAL ATTENTION.
TODAY WE REMEMBER GREG LAKE, BORN NOVEMBER 10, 1947, OF EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER. KNOWN FOR HIS RICH BASS WORK AND VOCALS, LAKE HELPED DEFINE PROGRESSIVE ROCK IN THE 1970S.