This day in music On January 12 2000 A cloud of troubled times hanging over the Smashing Pumpkins grows darker when manager Sharon Osbourne severs all ties with the Chicago rock quartet. In a statement, Osbourne says, ``It was with great pride and enthusiasm that I took on management of the Pumpkins back in October, but unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons - [Pumpkins frontman] Billy Corgan was making me sick! 1999 Elton John files suit in London against Price Waterhouse Coopers, the accountancy firm, and Andrew Haydon, a former managing director of John Reid Enterprises, his former management company, over an alleged shortfall of 20 million pounds from his business empire. 1998 Billy Joel sells out a record-setting eighth and ninth shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. The eighth show goes clean in about an hour, precipitating the addition of the ninth show. 1995 The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, the late Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Al Green, Neil Young, the Orioles and the late Frank Zappa are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1992 A child is born to Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and model Jerry Hall. Daughter Georgia May Ayeesha is the third child for the couple and the fifth for Jagger. 1991 Country music singer Johnny Paycheck is released from an Ohio prison after serving two years of a seven year sentence for a barroom shooting. Before leaving office, Gov. Richard Celeste commutes the singers sentence. 1984 Motley Crue opens its first U.S. tour at Madison Square Garden, New York. 1974 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Joker, Steve Miller Band. 1963 Bob Dylan is given the part of a folk singer on a BBC radio play, ``The Madhouse on Castle Street. 1957 Elvis Presley records ``All Shook Up at a Hollywood studio. 1953 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Dont Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, Perry Como. 1940 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit, ``South of the Border (Down Mexico Way), Shep Fields Orchestra.
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