... and more January 25 birthdays -
Ewan McColl (1915) - songwriter ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face").
Stig Anderson (1931) - manager of ABBA.
Etta James (1938)
Michael Cotten (1950) - synthesizer player for The Tubes.
Malcolm Green (1953) - drummer for Split Enz.
Robert Finch (1954) - singer with KC and The Sunshine Band.
Andy Cox (1956) - guitarist for The Beat.
Alicia Keys (1981)January 25 R.I.P. - Albert Grossman (1986) - heart attack. Age 59. Manager for Bob Dylan. Events - 1964 - Phil Spector appeared as a panellist on the UK TV show Juke Box Jury. 1984 - Yoko Ono donated £250,000 ($425,000) to the Liverpool old people's home Strawberry Fields. 1992 - The first Big Day Out festival took place at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. Acts appearing included, Nirvana, Beasts of Bourbon, Box the Jesuits, Celibate Rifles, Cosmic Psychos, The Clouds, Club Hoy, Died Pretty, Falling Joys, The Hard Ons with Henry Rollins, Hellmen, Massappeal, The Meanies, Smudge, Sound Unlimited Posse, Ratcat, The Village Idiots, Violent Femmes and Yothu Yindi. 2004 - Bob Dylan was paid by Victoria’s Secret to fly to Venice to film a TV advertisement in an ancient palazzo with a scantily dressed model.
