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Grateful Dead to Give Away Live Download Every Day This Month
Today, dead.net kicked off "30 Days of Dead": Every day throughout the entire month of November, the group will post a different live track on Dead.net that will be free to download for one day only. The band’s archivist, Dave Lemieux, hand-picked each of the 30 career-spanning tracks from the Dead’s vault. Each download will be a high-quality (320 kps) mp3; nearly all of the 30 tracks are previously unreleased soundboard recordings. [Press Release]

My Chemical Romance Open for 49ers and Broncos — in London
My Chemical Romance were the opening act for a San Francisco 49ers/ Denver Broncos game held in London last night. The group played two songs — their current single "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" and "Welcome to the Black Parade" — accompanied by cheerleaders. [NME]

Feelies to Release First New LP in 20 Years
Legendary power-pop group the Feelies will release their first album of all-new material in 20 years, according to a post on the band's Facebook page. The group has finished recording basic tracks and the album is slated for a Spring 2011 release. [Facebook]

Keith Richards Once Mistaken for Homeless
In the early 1980s, a corporate executive was surprised to find a person she thought was a "homeless man" seated next to her on a New York-to-London flight. When the flight arrived at dawn, she learned that her seatmate was Keith Richards, and he offered her a ride home. [ New York Times ]

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Song Stories

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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