February 19

Births

1940: Smokey Robinson (R&B Singer)

1943: Lou Christie (Singer)

1948: Mark Andes (Bass for Spirit)

1948: Tony Iommi (Guitar for Black Sabbath)

1954: Francis Buchholz (Bass for The Scorpions)

1956: Dave Wakeling (Singer & Guitar for The English Beat & General Public)

1957: Falco (Johann (Hans) Hölzel ) (Singer)

1963: Seal (Singer)

1964: Doug Aldrich (Guitar for Whitesnake & Dio)

1968: Prince Markie D (Rapper in The Fat Boys)

Events

1878: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison patents his latest (and personal favorite) creation, the phonograph. Beginning life as a telegraph repeater, the device was actually completed by an assistant working from Edison's sketches.

1965: Rod Stewart plays his first major gig in a Harrow, England club, singing with his band, The Soul Agents.

1972: Sammy Davis Jr. makes his notorious guest appearance on CBS' All In The Family, giving the show's main character, white bigot Archie Bunker, a big kiss.

1974: The First Annual American Music Awards, Dick Clark's answer to the Grammys, is broadcast on ABC. Hosts include Smokey Robinson, Helen Reddy and Roger Miller.

1974: KISS make their television debut on an episode of ABC's Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.

1976: Rich Stevens of the soul group Tower of Power is arrested in San Jose, CA, for a drug-related triple homicide that had taken place the night before. He will be found guilty in November.

1980: Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC/DC, died in London at the age of 33. He died as a result of choking on his own vomit after drinking heavily.

1982: Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in San Antonio, Texas for urinating on the Alamo. Osbourne was wearing a dress at the time of his arrest, (due to his wife Sharon hiding all his clothes so he couldn't go outside). Osbourne who apparently thought he was relieving himself on a pile of rubble was banned from ever playing in San Antonio, Texas again, (a ban which was lifted in 1992).

1995: Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee married Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson on a Cancun beach, Mexico, the bride wore a white bikini. Anderson and Lee who married only four days after meeting had videotaped their sexual activities while on vacation which was later stolen and released on the Internet. After suing the video company who released the tape, the Lees entered into a confidential settlement agreement. The couple divorced in 1998.

1995: Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea give birth to son Jesse James Louis.

1997: Miles Davis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1998: Eighties rockabilly revivalists the Stray Cats reunite for a charity show at Los Angeles' House of Blues. The show benefited the Carl Perkins Center For The Prevention Of Child Abuse.

1999: Spice Girl Melanie B gave birth to a baby daughter and named her Phoenix Chi.

2003: In West Warwick, RI, 99 people were killed when fire destroyed the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for Great White, was one of the victims in the fire.

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.

February 17

Births

1941: Gene Pitney (Singer)

1957: Loreena McKennitt (Singer)

1963: Larry The Cable Guy (Daniel Lawrence Whitney)

1967: Chanté Moore (R&B Singer)

1970: Tim Mahoney (Lead Guitar for 311)

1971: Denise Richards

1972: Billie Joe Armstrong (Singer & Guitar for Green Day)

1972: Taylor Hawkins (Drummer for Foo Fighters)

1974: Bryan White (Country Artist)

1981: Paris Hilton (ummm…. Singer?)

Events

1960: Elvis Presley won his first Gold record for the album 'Elvis'.

1965: Governor Frank G. Clement declares Patti Page's smash "Tennessee Waltz" the official anthem of that state.

1968: Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring singer Janis Joplin, are signed by Columbia after a performance at the Anderson Theatre in New York City.

1970: Joni Mitchell announced she was retiring from live performances during a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. Joni was on stage again by the end of the year.

1971: Johnny Cash is the guest of honor on NBC-TV's This Is Your Life; a few channels over, on Cash's ABC variety show, a young James Taylor makes his TV debut singing "Fire And Rain" and "Carolina On My Mind."

1973: The band Free, which would mutate into Bad Company, disband after playing their final show at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Florida.

1975: AC/DC released their debut album 'High Voltage'.

1976: Harvard names Bette Midler it's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year. Midler declares that the honor "characterizes what the American male wants in a woman... brains, talent and gorgeous t***."

1976: The Eagles release “Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975” which is tied with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” for the best selling LP in the US of all times at 29 Million copies.

1988: A 12-year old fan of Motley Crue set his legs on fire while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" video. The boy suffered burns over ten percent of his body.

1988: Destiny’s Child release their debut album.

1989: Whitesnake singer David Coverdale married actress Tawny Kitaen (known for her provocative appearances in Whitesnake's music videos 'Here I Go Again, 'Is This Love' and 'Still of the Night'). The couple divorced in 1991.

2000: Rapper Trick Daddy was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at a North Miami Beach nightclub.

2001: Brad Paisley is inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. He wears the yellow jacket that Buck Owens wore the night he recorded his "Live At Carnegie Hall" album. Paisley sings "Two People Fell In Love," from his upcoming album.

2008: During a Temptations/Four Tops concert in Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium, Little Richard, sitting in the audience, gets a standing ovation from all 2,400 concertgoers.

February 16

Births

1935: Sonny Bono (Singer & Producer)

1952: James Ingram (R&B Singer)

1958: Ice-T (Tracy Morrow) (Rapper)

1961: Andy Taylor (Guitar for Duran Duran & Power Station)

1965: Dave Lombardo (Drummer for Slayer)

1982: Lupe Fiasco (Wasalu Muhammad Jaco ) (Rapper)

Events

1963: Paul Anka marries Marie-Ann Alison DeZogheb in Paris.

1968: Detroit, MI mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh declares today "Aretha Franklin Day."

1969: George Jones marries Tammy Wynette in Ringgold, Georgia, six months after they announced the marriage.

1971: Hell's Angel biker Alan David Pasaro sues the Rolling Stones, claiming that the group's documentary film Gimme Shelter, a document of the infamous 1969 Altamont concert, constitutes invasion of privacy. The film depicts the stabbing of Meredith Hunter by members of the biker group, but Pasaro himself is later acquitted of the crime.

1972: During his week-long stint as host of the syndicated Mike Douglas Show, John Lennon performs "Memphis" and "Johnny B. Goode" with Chuck Berry, who Lennon refers to as "my hero."

1974: Bob Dylan started a four week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Planet Waves, his first US No.1.

1974: During a tour of America the members of Emerson, Lake & Palmer were arrested in Salt Lake City after swimming naked in the hotel pool. They were each fined $75.

1984: Jerry Lee Lewis surrenders to federal authorities on charges of income tax evasion, charges of which he is eventually acquitted.

1990: Ike Turner is sentenced to four years in prison on eleven separate charges, including possession and transport of cocaine. He is in prison when he and ex-wife Tina are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he is released after serving eighteen months.

1999: Rap star Ol' Dirty Bastard was arrested in Hollywood for allegedly wearing body armor, a forbidden garment because of his previous arrests. ODB was initially pulled over for driving eratically.

2005: Kid Rock was arrested for allegedly punching a DJ at a strip club in Nashville, Tennessee. Police were called to the incident but Rock escaped from the club. Shortly after, he was pulled over by an officer who got an autograph but did not do a breath test despite smelling alcohol. (The officer has since been fired). The star was eventually arrested a few hours later, taken to the night court and released on $3,000 bail.

2007: Britney Spears shaved her head.