| 1827: Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died. 1956: Kay Starr had the #1 song with "Rock and Roll Waltz". 1957: Ricky Nelson recorded his first songs. 1960: The television special Welcome Home Elvis, hosted by Frank Sinatra, is recorded at Miami Beach, Florida. Elvis had recently been discharged from the Army. Presley and Sinatra sing duets of "Love Me Tender" and "Witchcraft". 1964: Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway. 1965: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman received electric shocks from a defective microphone while performing in Denmark. Wyman was unconscious for several minutes. 1965: The Yardbirds announced that Jeff Beck would take Eric Clapton's place in the group. 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono began a "bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam. 1972: Mott the Hoople announces they are breaking up, but then changes their mind after David Bowie gives them the song "All the Young Dudes". 1975: Tommy, based on the rock opera by the Who, premiered in London. 1977: Hall and Oates were on top with "Rich Girl". 1980: The Police became the first act from the West to play in Bombay, India for over ten years. 1980: Jon Paulus of the Buckinghams died of a drug overdose at the age of 32. 1982: Toto releases their landmark album Toto IV. 1983: Duran Duran was mobbed by 5,000 screaming fans at an in-store appearance in New York City to promote there single "Is There Something I Should Know". 1985: South Africa radio stations banned all Stevie Wonder music after he dedicated his Oscar award to Nelson Mandela. 1988: Michael Jackson began a two-week stay at #1 with "Man in the Mirror". 1994: Soundgarden had the #1 album Superunknown. |
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| 1995: Rapper, producer and record executive Eazy-E died of AIDS at the age of 31. Eric Lynn Wright had worked with Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. 1997: Third Eye Blind releases their debut album. 1998: Chuck Negron filed a suit against the other members of Three Dog Night, alleging that they had breached a 1990 settlement and interfered with his career. 2000: Phil Collins was presented the Oscar for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards with "You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan. 2002: Celine Dion releases A New Day Has Come. 2002: Randy Castillo, drummer for Lita Ford, Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne's band, died of cancer at age 51. 2004: Sammy Hagar announced that he is back with Van Halen, and the group will tour that summer. 2004: Jan Berry of Jan and Dean died at the age of 62. Berry had been in poor health ever since his car crash in 1966. 2005: Paul Hester, drummer with Crowded House and Split Enz, died at the age of 46 from strangulation after an "attempted suicide". 2006: The Edge of U2 donated his favorite guitar (a 1975 Gibson Les Paul) to a charity he had co-founded to replace instruments lost or destroyed as a result of Hurricane Katrina. |
| Born This Day: 1917: Rufus Thomas ("Walking the Dog") 1936: Fred Parris, songwriter and vocalist with the Five Satins 1944: Diane Earl (Diana Ross) 1948: Richard Tandy, keyboardist with Electric Light Orchestra 1948: Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith 1949: Vicki Lawrence ("The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia") 1949: Fran Sheehan, bassist of Boston 1950: Teddy Pendergrass, solo singer and member of Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. (Died January 13,2010) 1953: William Lyall, keyboardist with Pilot ("Magic") and session musician for Sheena Easton and the Bay City Rollers. (Died in 1989) 1956: Stephanie Mills 1957: Paul Morley, Art of Noise and music journalist 1968: James Jonas Iha, guitarist with Smashing Pumpkins 1981: Jay Sean, producer for Lil' Wayne |
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