Musical birthdays today include popular singer Joanie 'The Voice of the Sixties' Sommers (79), ex-Manfred Mann lead singer Paul Jones (78), Smile lead guitarist Tim Saffell (72), George Thorogood (70), Belgian pop singer Plastic Bertrand (66), country singer Sammy Kershaw (62), Michelle Shocked (58), Slipknot drummer Chris Fehn (47), N*E*R*D* keyboardist Chad Hugo (46), Alkaline Trio guitarist Matt Skiba (44), Taking Back Sunday guitarist & singer John Nolan (42), Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley (37), and former Metro Station lead guitarist Trace Cyrus (31).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for opera librettist Arrigo Boito, born on this day in 1842... for pianist and composer Michel Legrand, who would have been 88 today... for session pianist Nicky Hopkins, who would have been 76... for jazz percussionist Steve Berios, who would have been 74... for Johnnie Ray, who died on this date in 1990... for country singer Webb Pierce, who passed away in 1991... for Dinah Shore, who died in 1994... and for for former Velvets lead singer Virgil Johnson, who left us today in 2014.
Also on February 24th: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, one of the first works recognized as an opera, has its premiere during the annual Carnival at Mantua, Italy (1608)... Handel's Rinaldo, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, premieres at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket (1711)... Fleetwood Mac's eponymous debut album is released (1968)... The Jimi Hendrix Experience play their final British gig at the Royal Albert Hall (1969)... Roberta Flack hits № 1 on the US singles chart with 'Killing Me Softly with His Song'... The Byrds make their final live appearance when they play the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ (1973)... Led Zeppelin release Physical Graffiti (1975)... The Eagles' Greatest Hits becomes the first album to be certified Platinum by the RIAA (1976)... The New York Post publishes a report that Bob Dylan has been baptised into the Christian faith in Pat Boone's swimming pool (1979)... Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love are married in Waikiki (1992)... The US Mint issues a commemorative quarter featuring the likeness of Duke Ellington, making the legendary composer and bandleader the first black person to appear by himself on an American coin (2009)... The personal assistant to former Ramones manager Linda Stein is convicted in a New York court of bludgeoning her boss to death at her Manhattan apartment on the 30th of October, 2007. Prosecutors said Natavia Lowery, 28, stole more than $30,000 from Stein, then clubbed her with a piece of exercise equipment. Jurors spent less than a day reaching a second-degree murder verdict (2010).
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