Events in Music
- Nov 1 "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances
Event of Interest
Nov 2 "Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV

Barbra Streisand
- Nov 10 "Ship Ahoy" album by The O'Jays is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1974)
Event of Interest
Nov 12 Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th String Quartet premieres

Dmitri Shostakovich
Album Release
Nov 16 John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album

John Lennon
Birthdays in Music
- Nov 3 Kirk Jones (Sticky Fingaz), American musician
- Nov 3 Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
- Nov 9 Nick Lachey, American singer, born in Harlan, Kentucky
- Nov 10 Khiry Abdul Samad, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm), born in Los Angeles, California
- Nov 13 Ari Hoenig, American jazz drummer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Nov 14 Moka Only [Daniel Denton], Canadian rapper, born in Langford, British Columbia
- Nov 18 Steve Christopher Petree, American pop singer (pc Quest- "After The Summer's Gone" ), born in Shawnee, Oklahoma
- Nov 28 Jade Puget, American rock guitarist (AFI), born in Santa Rosa, California
- Nov 30 John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
Deaths in Music
- Nov 10 Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
- Nov 11 Stringbean [David Akeman], American banjoist and comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58
- Nov 13 Bruno Maderna, Italian conductor, and avant garde composer (Quadrivium; Satyricon), dies of lung cancer at 53
- Nov 20 Allan Sherman, American parody singer and songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah), dies from emphysema at 48
- Nov 26 John Rostill, English rocker (The Shadows), electrocuted at 31
- Nov 27 Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 86