Led Zeppelin started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with the 'Four Symbols' album. Featuring the 8-minute track 'Stairway To Heaven', the album stayed on the US chart for 1 week short of 5 years, selling over 11 million copies.
Packers at EMI records went on strike, refusing to package the Sex Pistols single 'Anarchy In The UK.'
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones made the announcement of their decision not to re-form Led Zeppelin in the wake of the death of drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham.
Born on December 4th, 2008
Bob Griffin - US bassist; The BoDeans Cassandra Wilson - US Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Gary Rossington - US guitar; Lynyrd Skynyrd
Dead on December 4th, 2008
Benjamin Britton (62) - Briish composer; With his arrival on the international music scene, many felt that English music gained its greatest genius since Purcell (heart failure) Frank
Zappa (52) - guitarist, Multi instrumentalist, producer, composer. The Mothers Of Invention/solo. One of the most accomplished composers of the rock era, with terrific musical knowledge and an outrageous sense of humor (prostate cancer) - Bernie Dwyer drummer with Freddie & the Dreamers (lung cancer)
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