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Disco group Silver Convention earn a gold record for "Fly, Robin Fly," which hit Number One on the pop chart for three weeks starting November 29. Along with Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby," a big hit earlier in the year, "Fly, Robin, Fly"is the first in a series of disco triumphs by producers/ arrangers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, better known as "The Munich Machine," because they work in Munich, Germany, and because their productions invariably revolve around metronomic, machinelike pulses played on electronic sequencers and rhythm machines.
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Alive!, the fifth album by what has by now become America's most popular rock band -- those comic-book crazies of heavy-metal glitter rock, Kiss -- goes gold, as has every one of the band's other albums.
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Fleetwood Mac's eponymously titled tenth album goes gold and is on its way to a platinum citation as well. This is the first album by the reconstituted band -- including founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, veteran Christine McVie and newcomers Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham -- that, having started as blues rockers, now purveys a slick brand of California pop. This album contains the hit singles "Rhiannon," "Say You Love Me" and "Over My Head," and initiates a remarkably consitent hitmaking streak that will establish the band as one of the most popular and successful in the world.

Gratitude, a double album by funk-fusion band Earth, Wind and Fire (half of the album is live, the other half studio), becomes their fifth album to go gold.
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Top of the charts: Silver Convention's "Fly, Robin, Fly" (pop single); Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years (pop album).

Soul singer Tyrone Davis (of "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time" fame) enters the R&B chart with "Turning Point," which -- though it will never enter the pop chart -- will hit Number One in early 1976.
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A "Night of the Hurricane" benefit show at Madison Square Garden brings the Rolling Thunder Revue to a climax. In addition to Bob Dylan and his comrades, Muhammed Ali, Roberta Flack, Coretta King and assorted celebrities all show up. The highlight of the evening comes when a phone call from "Hurricane" Carter reaches the Garden stage. The show raises $100,000 toward legal fees for Carter and alleged accomplice John Artis.
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The Who by Numbers, which contains minor hit singles in "Squeeze Box" and "Slip Kid," earns the Who another gold record.
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British teen idols the Bay City Rollers garner their first U.S. gold record for their first U.S. hit single, "Saturday Night," which will reach Number One on the pop chart in early 1976. On December 31, the album Bay City Rollers will also go gold. They will go on to have five more Top Forty hits in the U.S. -- nothing to sneeze at, but no match for their string of British hits.
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Chicago bluesman Theodore "Hound Dog" Taylor, 59, dies in Chicago's Cook County Hospital, of lung cancer. Hound Dog, who remained spry until near the time of his death, enjoyed fame only recently with his group, the Houserockers, whose specialty was the type of bar-band blues boogie that dominated the city's South Side scene.

Judith Campbell Exner declares although she was a close friend of former president John F. Kennedy, she did not serve as a go-between for the White House and the Mafia.
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C.W. McCall earns a gold record for his novelty hit "Convoy," which will hit Number One on the pop chart in early 1976. The song, a saga of interstate truck drivers and their run-ins with the law, makes extensive use of -- and helps popularize -- the vernacular of citizens' band radio.
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Guitarist Joe Walsh joins forces with the Eagles, replacing original member Bernie Leadon, who leaves for a solo career.
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Ted Nugent, known for gun-toting hunting forays in his native Michigan, ends up looking at the wrong end of the barrel at a show in Spokane, Washington. Twenty-five- year-old David Gelfer points a .44 magnum at the Motor City musician but is wrestled to the ground by members of the audience and security guards. He is charged later with "intimidating with a weapon."
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A Minneapolis district court strikes down the NFL's "Rozelle rule," which gives its commissioner arbitration powers over free-agent compensation, stating that it violates antitrust regulations.
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Most popular music, books and film - 1975: Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" (pop single); Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (pop album); the Isley Brothers' "Fight the Power (Part 1)" (R&B single); C.W. McCall's "Convoy" (C&W single); James Michener's Centennial (fiction); Charles Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle (nonfiction); Jaws (film).
  


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