1956: Elvis Presley played the first of two nights in San Diego Arena. The San Diego Police chief released a statement saying that if he ever performed like he did again, he would be arrested for disorderly conduct.
1959: Buddy Holly's song "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" hit #13. It was the first posthumous release from Holly after his tragic plane crash.
1964: The Beatles had #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 on the U.S. singles chart. They were #1 "Can't Buy Me Love", #2 "Love Me Do", #3 "Roll Over Beethoven", #4 "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and #5 "Please Please Me". It was the first and only time any recording act has ever achieved the feat. The Beatles also had nine other singles on the Top 100 for a total of 14 at the same time, also still a record.
1964: The Rolling Stones release their self-titled debut album.
1965: John Lennon and Paul McCartney write "Help", the title song for the Beatles' second movie.
1967: Paul McCartney tells Monterey Pop Festival organizer (and Beatles publicist) Derek Taylor that the Festival should invite a guitarist named Jimi Hendrix.
1967: Jimi Hendrix appeared on the first edition of the UK BBC-TV show "Dee Time" along with Kiki Dee and Cat Stevens.
1968: James Brown made a national television appeal for calm following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
1968: Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Al Kooper and Ted Nugent jammed at an all-night blues, folk and rock session at the New Generation Club in New York after heading news of Martin Luther King's assassination.
1970: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young held down #1 on the album chart with Deja Vu. It was the first album in which Neil Young joined the trio.
1970: Janis Joplin reunited with Big Brother & the Holding Company at a concert in San Francisco, California.
1973: The Supremes appeared at the Granada in Tooting, England, the last date on a 20-day UK tour.
1977: The Clash released their self-titled album.
1981: Despite having several albums that are better, Paradise Theater became Styx's first #1 album. The Chicago group broke a record with four consecutive albums to go triple platinum (3 million sales).
1981: The documentary "This Is Elvis" premiered at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas.
1987: U2 entered the album chart at #7 with The Joshua Tree. It was the highest chart debut on the album charts in seven years.
1990: Gloria Estefan was able to leave the hospital after her serious car crash on March 20. Estefan required surgery to repair broken vertebrae.
1992: Bruce Springsteen hit #1 in the UK with his album Human Touch.
1994: Kurt Cobain's mother files a missing persons report on her son.
1996: Take That ("Back For Good" appeared on The Ivo Niehe Show on Dutch television for the final time.
1998: Madonna's "Frozen" peaked at #2, tying her with Elvis Presley for the most #2 hits in the Rock Era.
1998: K-ci & Jojo began three weeks at the top with their #1 song "All My Life".
1998: Eric Clapton released his first studio album (Pilgrim) in nine years.
1999: The Coors album Talk On Corners reached #1 on the UK chart for the 10th time. It was the biggest-selling album of 1998.
2000: Pink released her first album Can't Take Me Home.
2002: Injuries to Dave Mustaine's left arm and hand forced Megadeth to break up after 19 years.
2002: R. Kelly is investigated on charges of child pornography in Chicago.
2003: Meat Loaf announces his retirement following a last tour.
2003: The Rolling Stones play their first concert in India, performing in Bangalore in front of 30,000 fans.
2003: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers premiere "Black Leather Woman" on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
2004: Nickelback wins Best Group at the Canadian Juno Awards.
2004: Beck marries actress Marissa Tibisi at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California.
2006: Rapper Black Rob is sentenced to seven years in prison for grand larceny. And moral compass-challenged people continue to like the "music".
2008: Beyonce Knowles married Jay-Z at his New York apartment.
2008: Procol Harum's Gary Brooker won back his full royalty rights to "A Whiter Shade of Pale" at the Court of Appeals in London. The decision overturned a 2006 ruling that organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to a 40% portion of the royalties for the 1967 hit after Fisher argued that he had written the organ melody for the song. The Appeals Court ruled that there had been an "excessive delay" in the claim (40 years after the song came out).
Born This Day:
1934: Clive Davis, record executive with Columbia and Arista
1939: Hugh Maskela, who had a #1 song with his version of "Grazing in the Grass"
1940: Sharon Sheeley, songwriter whose credits include "Poor Little Fool" for Ricky Nelson and "Somethin' Else" for Eddie Cochran. Sheeley became Cochran's girlfriend and survived the 1960 car crash that claimed Cochran's life. Sheeley died May 17, 2002 at the age of 62.
1941: Major Lance, who died of heart failure March 9, 1994
1948: Berry Oakley, bassist for the Allman Brothers Band. Oakley died in a motorcycle crash November 11, 1972
1948: Pick Withers, drummer for Dire Straits
1948: Carol Douglas ("Doctor's Orders")
1952: Dave Hill, guitarist for Slade
1952: Gary Moore, the elite guitar player and vocalist for Skid Row and Thin Lizzy who came out with the spectacular solo album Still Got the Blues. Moore died earlier this year (Feb. 6) on holiday in Spain
1952: Pete Haycock, Climax Blues Band
1955: Mick Mars of Motley Crue.
1957: Graeme Kelling of Deacon Blue
1966: Mike Starr, Alice In chains
1971: Josh Todd, lead singer of Buckcherry
1972: Magnus Sveningsson, bassist for the Cardigans ("Lovefool")
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1959: Buddy Holly's song "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" hit #13. It was the first posthumous release from Holly after his tragic plane crash.
1964: The Beatles had #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 on the U.S. singles chart. They were #1 "Can't Buy Me Love", #2 "Love Me Do", #3 "Roll Over Beethoven", #4 "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and #5 "Please Please Me". It was the first and only time any recording act has ever achieved the feat. The Beatles also had nine other singles on the Top 100 for a total of 14 at the same time, also still a record.
1964: The Rolling Stones release their self-titled debut album.
1965: John Lennon and Paul McCartney write "Help", the title song for the Beatles' second movie.
1967: Paul McCartney tells Monterey Pop Festival organizer (and Beatles publicist) Derek Taylor that the Festival should invite a guitarist named Jimi Hendrix.
1967: Jimi Hendrix appeared on the first edition of the UK BBC-TV show "Dee Time" along with Kiki Dee and Cat Stevens.
1968: James Brown made a national television appeal for calm following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
1968: Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Al Kooper and Ted Nugent jammed at an all-night blues, folk and rock session at the New Generation Club in New York after heading news of Martin Luther King's assassination.
1970: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young held down #1 on the album chart with Deja Vu. It was the first album in which Neil Young joined the trio.
1970: Janis Joplin reunited with Big Brother & the Holding Company at a concert in San Francisco, California.
1973: The Supremes appeared at the Granada in Tooting, England, the last date on a 20-day UK tour.
1977: The Clash released their self-titled album.
1981: Despite having several albums that are better, Paradise Theater became Styx's first #1 album. The Chicago group broke a record with four consecutive albums to go triple platinum (3 million sales).
1981: The documentary "This Is Elvis" premiered at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas.
1987: U2 entered the album chart at #7 with The Joshua Tree. It was the highest chart debut on the album charts in seven years.
1990: Gloria Estefan was able to leave the hospital after her serious car crash on March 20. Estefan required surgery to repair broken vertebrae.
1992: Bruce Springsteen hit #1 in the UK with his album Human Touch.
1994: Kurt Cobain's mother files a missing persons report on her son.
1996: Take That ("Back For Good" appeared on The Ivo Niehe Show on Dutch television for the final time.
1998: Madonna's "Frozen" peaked at #2, tying her with Elvis Presley for the most #2 hits in the Rock Era.
1998: K-ci & Jojo began three weeks at the top with their #1 song "All My Life".
1998: Eric Clapton released his first studio album (Pilgrim) in nine years.
1999: The Coors album Talk On Corners reached #1 on the UK chart for the 10th time. It was the biggest-selling album of 1998.
2000: Pink released her first album Can't Take Me Home.
2002: Injuries to Dave Mustaine's left arm and hand forced Megadeth to break up after 19 years.
2002: R. Kelly is investigated on charges of child pornography in Chicago.
2003: Meat Loaf announces his retirement following a last tour.
2003: The Rolling Stones play their first concert in India, performing in Bangalore in front of 30,000 fans.
2003: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers premiere "Black Leather Woman" on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
2004: Nickelback wins Best Group at the Canadian Juno Awards.
2004: Beck marries actress Marissa Tibisi at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California.
2006: Rapper Black Rob is sentenced to seven years in prison for grand larceny. And moral compass-challenged people continue to like the "music".
2008: Beyonce Knowles married Jay-Z at his New York apartment.
2008: Procol Harum's Gary Brooker won back his full royalty rights to "A Whiter Shade of Pale" at the Court of Appeals in London. The decision overturned a 2006 ruling that organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to a 40% portion of the royalties for the 1967 hit after Fisher argued that he had written the organ melody for the song. The Appeals Court ruled that there had been an "excessive delay" in the claim (40 years after the song came out).
Born This Day:
1934: Clive Davis, record executive with Columbia and Arista
1939: Hugh Maskela, who had a #1 song with his version of "Grazing in the Grass"
1940: Sharon Sheeley, songwriter whose credits include "Poor Little Fool" for Ricky Nelson and "Somethin' Else" for Eddie Cochran. Sheeley became Cochran's girlfriend and survived the 1960 car crash that claimed Cochran's life. Sheeley died May 17, 2002 at the age of 62.
1941: Major Lance, who died of heart failure March 9, 1994
1948: Berry Oakley, bassist for the Allman Brothers Band. Oakley died in a motorcycle crash November 11, 1972
1948: Pick Withers, drummer for Dire Straits
1948: Carol Douglas ("Doctor's Orders")
1952: Dave Hill, guitarist for Slade
1952: Gary Moore, the elite guitar player and vocalist for Skid Row and Thin Lizzy who came out with the spectacular solo album Still Got the Blues. Moore died earlier this year (Feb. 6) on holiday in Spain
1952: Pete Haycock, Climax Blues Band
1955: Mick Mars of Motley Crue.
1957: Graeme Kelling of Deacon Blue
1966: Mike Starr, Alice In chains
1971: Josh Todd, lead singer of Buckcherry
1972: Magnus Sveningsson, bassist for the Cardigans ("Lovefool")
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