Musical birthdays today include songwriter and producer Brian Holland (74), ex-Kinks drummer Mick Avory (71), Supertramp saxophonist John Helliwell (70), Melissa Manchester (64), former UB40 lead singer Ali Campbell (56), ex-Culture Club bassist Mikey Craig (55), Jane Child (48), rapper Bryan 'Birdman' Williams (46), Incubus lead singer Brandon Boyd (39), Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman (38), Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst (35), and Relient K guitarist Matt Hoopes (34).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for country singer Hank Locklin, born on this day in 1918... for former Santana bassist David Brown, who would have been 65 today... for composer Mikhail Glinka, who died on this date in 1857... for Nat King Cole, who passed away in 1965... for blues harmonica innovator 'Little Walter' Jacobs, who died in 1968... for guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who died of a drug overdose on this day in 1981 at the age of 37... for rapper Lamon 'Big L' Coleman, shot to death on this day in 1999 at the age of 24... for French chansonnier Pierre Bachelet, who died in 2005... and for salsa singer Joe Cuba, who left us in 2009.
Also on February 15: Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Armide receives its first performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris (1686)... Ray Charles begins recording the milestone album Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music at United Studios in Los Angeles (1962)... The Beatles score their first US № 1 album with Meet the Beatles ~ it will remain at the top of the chart for the next 11 weeks (1964)... Bob Dylan arrives in Nashville to begin the sessions at CBS Studios on Music Row for the album that will become Blonde on Blonde. The day's work will be productive, including the definitive version of 'Visions of Johanna' (1966)... John and Cynthia Lennon, along with George and Patti Harrison, fly to India to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul and Ringo join them a few days later, but Starr becomes bored and will leave on March 1st, comparing the experience to a 'Butlin's holiday camp.' Many of the songs on White Album will be written during their stay (1968)... An unknown singer named Vickie Jones is arrested on fraud charges for impersonating Aretha Franklin in concert at Fort Myers, Florida. No one in the audience had asked for their money back, however... Sly & the Family Stone's ' (I Am) Everyday People' is the № 1 song in America (1969)... Linda Ronstadt has both the № 1 single in the US ['You're No Good'] and the top album [Heart like a Wheel] (1975)... Glenn Matlock is fired as the Sex Pistols' bass player and replaced with Sid Vicious (1977)... Following the publication of a quote from lead singer Joe Elliot referring to El Paso, TX as "that dump with all those greasy Mexicans", Def Leppard are forced to cancel a concert in the city after they received threats that the gig would be violently disrupted (1988)... Kelly Emberg, the ex-girlfriend of Rod Stewart, files a $25 million palimony suit in Los Angeles. The couple lived together from 1985 to 1990. Stewart's reaction to being served: "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house" (1991)... Sting pulls out of a concert in Vienna in protest at the inclusion of Jorg Haider's ultra-right freedom party in Austria's new government. Lou Reed has also cancelled shows in the country (2000)... A flat once rented by The Beatles in London goes up for sale for £1.75 m. The band shared the three-bedroom top floor property in Green Street, Mayfair in the autumn of 1962. The iconic photo of the Fab Four peering over a banister, used as the cover for the group's debut album Please Please Me, was taken at the top of the property's communal stairwell (2008).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for country singer Hank Locklin, born on this day in 1918... for former Santana bassist David Brown, who would have been 65 today... for composer Mikhail Glinka, who died on this date in 1857... for Nat King Cole, who passed away in 1965... for blues harmonica innovator 'Little Walter' Jacobs, who died in 1968... for guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who died of a drug overdose on this day in 1981 at the age of 37... for rapper Lamon 'Big L' Coleman, shot to death on this day in 1999 at the age of 24... for French chansonnier Pierre Bachelet, who died in 2005... and for salsa singer Joe Cuba, who left us in 2009.
Also on February 15: Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Armide receives its first performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris (1686)... Ray Charles begins recording the milestone album Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music at United Studios in Los Angeles (1962)... The Beatles score their first US № 1 album with Meet the Beatles ~ it will remain at the top of the chart for the next 11 weeks (1964)... Bob Dylan arrives in Nashville to begin the sessions at CBS Studios on Music Row for the album that will become Blonde on Blonde. The day's work will be productive, including the definitive version of 'Visions of Johanna' (1966)... John and Cynthia Lennon, along with George and Patti Harrison, fly to India to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul and Ringo join them a few days later, but Starr becomes bored and will leave on March 1st, comparing the experience to a 'Butlin's holiday camp.' Many of the songs on White Album will be written during their stay (1968)... An unknown singer named Vickie Jones is arrested on fraud charges for impersonating Aretha Franklin in concert at Fort Myers, Florida. No one in the audience had asked for their money back, however... Sly & the Family Stone's ' (I Am) Everyday People' is the № 1 song in America (1969)... Linda Ronstadt has both the № 1 single in the US ['You're No Good'] and the top album [Heart like a Wheel] (1975)... Glenn Matlock is fired as the Sex Pistols' bass player and replaced with Sid Vicious (1977)... Following the publication of a quote from lead singer Joe Elliot referring to El Paso, TX as "that dump with all those greasy Mexicans", Def Leppard are forced to cancel a concert in the city after they received threats that the gig would be violently disrupted (1988)... Kelly Emberg, the ex-girlfriend of Rod Stewart, files a $25 million palimony suit in Los Angeles. The couple lived together from 1985 to 1990. Stewart's reaction to being served: "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house" (1991)... Sting pulls out of a concert in Vienna in protest at the inclusion of Jorg Haider's ultra-right freedom party in Austria's new government. Lou Reed has also cancelled shows in the country (2000)... A flat once rented by The Beatles in London goes up for sale for £1.75 m. The band shared the three-bedroom top floor property in Green Street, Mayfair in the autumn of 1962. The iconic photo of the Fab Four peering over a banister, used as the cover for the group's debut album Please Please Me, was taken at the top of the property's communal stairwell (2008).
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