February 21

Births

1933: Nina Simone (Jazz Singer)

1943: David Geffen (Record Executive)

1949: Jerry Harrison (Keyboards & Guitar for The Talking Heads & The Modern Lovers)

1958: Mary Chapin Carpenter (Country Singer)

1961: Ranking Roger (Singer for The English Beat & General Public)

1967: Michael Ward (Guitar for The Wallflowers)

1970: Eric Wilson (Bass for Sublime)

1975: Wish Bone (Rapper with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

1986: Charlotte Church (Singer)

Events

1952: A 17-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis marries his first wife, preacher's daughter Dorothy Barton, in what is rumored to be a shotgun wedding.

1958: The first Flying V, a guitar by Gibson, was shipped from a factory in Kalamazoo, MI.

1964: A young pianist named Billy Joel joins his first rock band, a New York outfit called The Echoes, which specializes in covering the new "British Invasion" bands.

1970: The Jackson 5 made their television debut on ABC's American Bandstand.

1976: The Four Seasons finally score a UK #1 -- their first and last -- with their latest single, "December '63 (Oh What A Night)."

1981: Dolly Parton started a two week run at No.1 on the US charts with '9 to 5', the singers first No.1.

1981: Prince appeared on "Saturday Night Live" and performed "Party Up." It was his first appearance on the show.

1986: Pat Boone is the guest star (as himself) on tonight's "Beach Blanket Bounty" episode of NBC-TV's The Fall Guy.

1987: 26 years after becoming a hit in America, Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" becomes a #1 in the UK, following its release in the movie of the same name.

1987: Sly Stone was jailed on drug charges.

2001: Johnny Cash, recovering from pneumonia, is judged fit for release from a Nashville hospital so that he can attend this evening's Grammy ceremonies and pick up his statuette for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

2001: Robbie Williams was attacked and thrown from the stage during a concert in Stuttgart, Germany after a man got onto the stage and pushed Williams into the security pit. The attacker was arrested and taken to a secure psychiatric clinic.

2008: In what is reported as one of eBay's most expensive sales yet, the online auction house brokers a deal between an unnamed US music collector and an unnamed Irish collector for three million albums and singles in various formats, for a grand total of about one dollar per item.

2008: Crystal Gayle is inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame.

2008: A computer expert was jailed for two years for electronically stalking Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington. Devon Townsend worked at a US national security laboratory in New Mexico, where she used a computer to track Bennington, she admitted to obtaining family photos, accessing e-mail and voicemail, and threatening his wife Talinda.