Births
1943: Jean
Knight (R&B Singer)
1948: Corky
Laing (Drummer for Mountain)
1951: David
Briggs (Guitar for The Little River Band)
1951: Andy Hummel (Bass for Big Star)
1953: Lucinda
Williams (Singer / Songwriter)
1955: Eddie
Van Halen (Guitar for Van Halen)
1958: Anita Baker (R&B Singer)
1961: Tom Keifer (Guitar & Vocals for
Cinderella)
1963: Andrew Ridgeley (The other guy in Wham!)
1963: Jazzie B (Trevor Beresford Romeo) (DJ in Soul II Soul)
1970: Kirk Franklin
(Gospel Singer)
1976: Willie
Adler (Guitar for Lamb Of God)
1986: Matt
Heafy (Lead Guitar & Vocals for Trivium)
Events
1934: The
Apollo Theatre opens in Harlem, New York City, as a "Negro vaudeville
theatre."
1957: Buddy
Holly and the Crickets make their second appearance on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show.
Before the show Sullivan, who considered Holly's hit "Oh, Boy!" too
"raunchy," forbids him from singing it on tonight's show. Holly
refuses, causing Sullivan to limit Buddy to one song instead of two, sabotage
him with bad lighting and sound, and mispronounce his name. Holly is visibly
upset on the stage.
1962:
Buffalo, New York Catholic Church Bishop Joseph A. Burke bans the Twist from
being heard or danced in any area Catholic school or event.
1969: The
Beatles, recording the Get Back (later Let It Be) album and film
at Apple Corps headquarters, decide to stage a concert on the roof (although it
wouldn't happen on this day). Ringo writes "Octopus's Garden" today,
as well.
1970: John
Lennon writes "Instant Karma!" in the morning and records it the same
afternoon with producer Phil Spector and a backing "choir" assembled
from pubcrawlers at London's Hatchetts Club. The single is mixed the same day
and released just ten days later (hence the song's name).
1970: Elvis
Presley introduces "An American Trilogy" into his performances at the
Las Vegas Hilton.
1972: Elvis
Presley begins wearing one-piece jumpsuits during his gigs at the International
Hotel, Las Vegas.
1972: Sean Combs (Puff Daddy) father Melvin was
shot dead in his car in a Manhattan park aged thirty-three. Sean was aged 2 at
the time.
1977:
Original Fleetwood Mac lead guitarist Peter Green is committed to a psychiatric
facility in his native England for firing a pistol at a delivery boy who was
attempting to deliver a royalty check.
1977: After
removing the diamond from his famous "TCB" ring, Elvis Presley has it
placed in an engagement ring for girlfriend Ginger Alden. Elvis proposes to her
in the bathroom at Graceland.
1980: Prince made his TV debut on the US show
American Bandstand.
1986: Allen Collins, guitarist from Lynyrd
Skynyrd crashed his car, paralyzing him from the waist down and killing his
girlfriend Debra Jean Watts. Collins had survived a plane crash in 1977 that
killed two other band members.
1997: ZZ Top,
James Brown, and the "Blues Brothers" perform at the Super Bowl XXXI
halftime show in New Orleans.
1999: The
National Transportation Safety Board determines the cause of John Denver's
fatal 1997 airplane crash: Denver neglected to fill his main tank with enough
fuel, and in the process of switching over to his backup tank inadvertently put
the plane into a deadly roll.
