January 6th

 Musical birthdays today include singer & pianist Paolo Conte (85), Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman Kim Wilson (71), ex-Frankie Goes to Hollywood bassist Mark O'Toole (58), Bowling for Soup drummer Gary Wiseman (51), Uh Huh Her lead singer Camila Grey (43), and Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner (36). 

Shoutout to the Great Beyond for composer Alexander Scriabin, born on this day in 1872... for bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs, born in 1924... for R&B singer-songwriter Doris Troy, who would have been 84... for Syd Barrett, who would have been 76... for Sandy Denny, who would have been 75... for original Widespread Panic guitarist Michael Houser, who would have been 60... for composer and violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, who died on this date in 1831... for Dizzy Gillespie, who passed away in 1993... for Lou Rawls, who died today in 2006... and for Flying Burrito Brothers pedal steel guitarist Sneaky Pete Kleinow, who left us in 2007. 

Also on January 6th: Elvis Presley performs in the gymnasium of Randolph High School in Randolph, MS. It is the last concert that he will give in a venue that can hold fewer than 5,000 spectators (1956)... Gibson launches the 'Flying V' electric guitar (1958)... Magical Mystery Tour becomes the Beatles' 11th US № 1 album (1968)... Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young make their European live debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London (1970)... Bob Dylan has his first telephone conversation with A.J. Weberman, the obsessive fan and self-styled 'Dylanologist' who has been rummaging through the garbage cans outside the singer's Greenwich Village home for the past several weeks (1971)... Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain' goes to № 1 on the US singles chart (1973)... Pink Floyd begin recording Wish You Were Here at Abbey Road Studios... After waiting overnight in the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets for Led Zeppelin's February 3rd concert at the venue to go on sale, over a thousand of the group's fans riot when they are informed that the sale will be delayed for several days, and do some $30,000 worth of damage (1975)... Peter Frampton releases Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)... EMI drop the Sex Pistols, paying the band £40,000 and releasing them from their contract (1977)... The Village People score their only UK № 1 single with 'YMCA' (1979)... Bill Wyman announces that he is leaving the Rolling Stones (1994)... Two bronze busts worth £50,000 are stolen from a garden at George Harrison's estate in Henley-on- Thames, Oxfordshire. Thieves climbed a 10- foot-wall and cut the figures of two monks from their stone plinths (1997).