Archive for February, 2010

EVENTS ..
1961 – the THE PLATTERS sue Mercury Records for breach of contract in Chicago, citing the record label’s refusal to pay royalties for songs on which leader Tony Williams does not, in fact, sing lead
1961 – earliest footage of the THE BEATLES as a band is taken during their performance at the Casanova Club in Liverpool
1967 – the ARETHA FRANKLIN records her RESPECT mp3 in New York
1970 – the THE WHO play a legendary concert at Leeds University in England which will become the Live at Leeds LP
1970 – Billboard magazine reports that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is “Mounting Total War Against Tape Pirating of Prerecorded Music”
1972 – on the same day the band breaks up for the first time, Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty declares today “Steppenwolf Day”
1972 – the JOHN LENNON and the YOKO ONO begin their week-long stint as guest hosts on the syndicated Mike Douglas Show
1973 – the DAVID BOWIE collapses due to “total exhaustion” at the end of his Valentine’s Day show at New York’s Madison Square Garden
1974 – Rolling Stone reports that the DAVID BOWIE has declined an offer from a gay liberation group who asked him to compose “the world’s first Gay National Anthem”
1980 – the LOU REED marries Sylvia Morales in New York City’s Greenwich Village
1981 – the BILLY IDOL leaves the GENERATION X for a solo career
1984 – the ELTON JOHN marries sound engineer Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia – attendees include the OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN and the ROD STEWART (pictured)
1986 – the FRANK ZAPPA guest stars on NBC’s Miami Vice
1990 – the THE ROLLING STONES begin their first-ever tour of Japan at Tokyo’s Korakuen Dome
1993 – the HARRY NILSSON suffers his first heart attack
1994 – the THE GRATEFUL DEAD‘s JERRY GARCIA marries Deborah Koons
1996 – the PRINCE marries Mayte Garcia
1998 – the MARILYN MANSON book signing tour for his autobiography “It’s A Long Hard Road Out of Hell” begins
1998 – the MADONNA got her first club performance in more than 10 years at the Roxy in New York
1999 – the ELTON JOHN guest stars on Fox’s The Simpsons
2000 – the KISS announces their farewell tour
2001 – Fox debuts “Barbra Streisand: Timeless” a film of her “farewell concert”

BIRTHS ..
1931 – the THE MCGUIRE SISTERS‘ PHYLLIS
1947 – the TIM BUCKLEY (songwriter plus father to the JEFF BUCKLEY)
1950 – the HEART‘s ROGER FISHER
1972 – the ROB THOMAS
1972 – the LIT‘s KEVIN BALDES
1975 – the THE LIVING END‘s SCOTT OWEN
1976 – the LEAVES’ EYES‘ vocalist the LIV KRISTINE
1978 – American neo-soul-er the DWELE

DEATHS ..
1999 – the BUDDY KNOX dies from lung cancer (b. July 20, 1933)
2006 – singer songwriter the LYNDEN DAVID HALL dies from complications resulting from the stem cell transplant (b. May 7, 1974)

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