\♬/ ✪ February 4th: On this Day in Music History! ✪ \♬/ 1948: Born, Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, is an American shock rock singer, songwriter, and musician career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, and baby dolls, he is considered by fans and peers alike to be The Godfather of Shock Rock. -------------- 1951: Born, Phillip W. Ehart is the drummer in the progressive rock band Kansas. He and Rich Williams are the only two members who have appeared on every Kansas album. Though his songwriting contributions to the group were rare, he co-wrote two of their biggest hits, Point of Know Return and Play the Game Tonight. -------------- 1952: Jerry Shirley is an English rock drummer, best known as a member of the band Humble Pie, appearing on all their albums. He is also known for his work with Fastway, Joey Molland from Badfinger, David Gilmour, Alexis Korner, Billy Nicholls, Syd Barrett, John Entwistle, Sammy Hagar and Benny Mardones -------------- 1959: Frankie Avalon and Jimmy Clanton were brought on to the Winter Dance Party after the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Vallens and the Big Bopper. -------------- 1960: Billy Walker joined the Grand Ole Opry. -------------- 1962: Born, Clinton Patrick Clint Black is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Nashville in 1989, Blacks debut album Killin Time produced four straight number one singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Although his momentum gradually slowed throughout the 1990s, Black consistently charted hit songs into the 2000s. He has had more than 30 singles on the US Billboard country charts, twenty-two of which have reached number one. -------------- 1966: Bob Dylan opened a world tour in Louisville, KY. It was his first with electric instruments. -------------- 1967: The Monkees self-titled debut album started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart. -------------- 1970: John Lennon & Yoko Ono donated a bag of their cut hair to Michael X for an auction to aid the Black Power movement. Michael X then gave them a pair of Muhammad Ali’s boxing shorts. -------------- 1972: Senator Strom Thurmond sent a note to Attorney General John Mitchell recommending that John Lennon be deported. -------------- 1977: American Bandstand celebrated its 25th anniversary with a primetime special on ABC. Among the performers who appeared on the special included Gregg Allman, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, & Stevie Wonder. -------------- 1978: The Bee Gees started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Staying Alive. From the film soundtrack Saturday Night Fever, it gave the brothers their fifth US No.1, also No.1 in the UK. -------------- 1978: Queen peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “We Will Rock You”/”We Are the Champions” which was their second top ten single in the U.S. -------------- 1980: The Ramones released their fifth album End of the Century. The album was produced by Phil Spector & went on to become their highest charting album in the U.S. reaching number 44 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. -------------- 1984: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble opened their Couldnt Stand the Weather tour in Nashville, TN. -------------- 1989: Guns N’ Roses became the first act in 15 years to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Appetite for Destruction was at number two & the EP G N’ R Lies was at number five. -------------- 1996: Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli tried to steal a car and was hit with a baseball bat by the owner, requiring hospitalization. -------------- 1999: Rykodisc became the first label to OK the use of the MP3 format. -------------- 2000; Bjorn Ulvaeus said that ABBA had, indeed, turned down an offer of $1 billion to reform the group. -------------- 2001: Jimmy Buffett was tossed from a NY Knicks-Miami Heat basketball game for verbally abusing a referee. -------------- 2002; Stevie Wonder sang Happy Birthday to Rosa Parks on her 89th birthday. -------------- 2003: Doors drummer John Densmore filed an injunction against guitarist Robbie Krieger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, Police drummer Stewart Copeland & The Cult singer Ian Astbury for touring as The Doors of the 21st Century. -------------- 2004: Art Garfunkel plead guilty to marijuana possession and was fined $200. -------------- -------------- Recorded Recorded 1940 - Willie Dixon recorded his first sides for Bluebird Records. 1954 - Honey Love, Bells of St. Marys, White Christmas - Drifters 1955 - Please, Please, Please - James Brown 1963 - Faded Love - Patsy Cline 1968 - Across the Universe - Beatles Released 1966 - 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones 1977 - Rumors - Fleetwood Mac Broadcasts 1962 - Thank Your Lucky Stars (ITV U.K.) - Gene Pitney 1971 - Make Room For Granddaddy - Diana Ross 1977 - American Bandstand 25th Anniversary (ABC) 1991 - Cher at the Mirage (CBS) -------------- -------------- Birthdays 1929 - Paul Burlison (Rock and Roll Trio) (d. 2003) 1930 - Bernie West (Five Keys) 1941 - John Steel (Animals) 1942 - Kenny Wertz (Flying Burrito Brothers) 1942 - John Gambale (Classics) 1943 - Barry Beckett (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section) (d. 2009) 1944 - Florence LaRue (Fifth Dimension) (70) 1948 - Marguerite Ganser (Shangri-Las) (d. 1996) 1948 - Mary Ann Ganser (Shangri-Las) (d. 1970) 1949 - Roy Yeager (Atlanta Rhythm Section) 1950 - James Dunn (Stylistics) 1960 - Tim Booth (James) 1963 - Noodles (born Kevin Wasserman) (Offspring) 1965 - Chris McDaniel (Confederate Railway) 1968 - Steve Queralt (Ride) 1969 - Duncan Coutts (Our Lady Mercy) 1975 - Natalie Imbruglia 1975 - Rick Burch (Jimmy Eat World) 1976 - Camron (born Cameron Giles) 1977 - Gavin DeGraw 1980 - Cameron Muncey (Jet) 1982 - Kimberly Wyatt (Pussycat Dolls) -------------- Deaths 1975 - Louis Jordan - Heart attack (66) 1982 - Alex Harvey - Heart attack (46) 1983 - Karen Carpenter (Carpenters) - Cardiac arrest attributed to her eating disorder (32) 1984 - Paul Gardiner (Gary Numan, Tubeway Army) - Heroin overdose (25) 1987 - Liberace - AIDS (67) 1989 - Kenneth Jethro Burns (Homer & Jethro) - Prostate cancer (65) 1999 - Gwen Guthrie - Uterine cancer (48) 2000 - Doris Coley (Shirelles) - Breast cancer (58) 2007 - Barbara McNair - Throad cancer (72) 2009 - Lux Interior (Cramps) - Aortic disection (62)
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