February 18

Births

1933: Yoko Ono (Musician)

1934: Skip Battin (Bass for The Byrds)

1941: Irma Thomas (R&B Singer)

1947: Dennis DeYoung (Singer & Keyboards for Styx)

1952: Juice Newton (Country Singer / Songwriter)

1952: Randy Crawford (Jazz Singer)

1953: Robbie Bachman (Drums for Bachman-Turner Overdrive)

1954: John Travolta (Singer, yes he had a album)

1955: Brian James (Guitar for The Damned & Lords Of The New Church)

1965: Dr Dre (Andre Romelle Young) (Rapper)

1977: Sean Watkins (Singer & Guitarist for Nickel Creek)

1980: Regina Spektor (Singer / Songwriter)

1982: Juelz Santana (LaRon Louis James) (Rapper)

Events

1966: Beach Boy Brian Wilson recorded the future classic song 'Good Vibrations', which went on to become the band's third U.S. number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up "vibrations" from people, so that the dog would bark at "bad vibrations" Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song.

1968: David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd as the replacement for founding member and guitarist Syd Barrett, who had already checked into a psychiatric hospital due to declining mental health.

1968: Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, along with their female companions, head to Rishikesh, India to join the other two members of the Beatles in studying under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

1969: The Bee Gees' Maurice Gibb marries Lulu at St. James' Church, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England. Three thousand fans turn out to see the nuptials.

1973: Four men climb on stage during Elvis Presley's show in Las Vegas, ostensibly to shake his hand. Fearing a threat to his life, Elvis and bassist Jerry Scheff immobilize the men using karate moves. No charges are filed. Elvis tells the audience: "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry I didn't break his goddamned neck, is what I'm sorry about."

1973: The nationally syndicated radio concert series The King Biscuit Flower Hour premieres, featuring Blood Sweat and Tears, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

1974: KISS release their self-titled debut album.

1980: Bill Wyman announces his intention to leave his group, the Rolling Stones, by 1983. The bassist is convinced to stay on, which he does until 1992.

1980: Filming begins on Ringo Starr's new comedy, Caveman.

1992: Vince Neil quit as lead singer of Motley Crue. After 11 years with the group he says he wants to spend more time on his career as a race car driver. The band reunited on the "American Music Awards" 5 years later.

1995: American guitarist Bob Stinson from The Replacements died from a drug overdose, his body was found in his Uptown, Minneapolis apartment.

2001: James Taylor marries his second wife, Caroline.

2005: Britney Spears attacked a US magazine after it published photographs of her honeymoon without permission. Weekly publication Us printed five pages of pictures of Spears and husband Kevin Federline on holiday in Fiji. A statement from US said: "Britney should start her own magazine if she'd like to dictate her own coverage."

2006: In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, the Rolling Stones gave a free concert before a crowd of over 1 million people at Copacabana Beach.