.. and more January 28 birthdays - Ronnie Scott (1928) - English sax player, jazz club owner. King Tubby (aka Osbourne Ruddock, 1941) - Jamaican sound engineer. Dick Taylor (1943) - guitarist for The Pretty Things. Robert Wyatt (1945) - drummer/vocalist for Soft Machine. Rick Allen (1946) - bassist for The Gentrys and The Box Tops. Dave Sharpe (1959) - guitarist for The Alarm. Sarah McLachlan (1968) ____________________
Birthday correction - Arthur Rubenstein was born in 1887. ____________________ January 28 R.I.P. - Billy Fury (aka Ronald Wycherley, 1983) - heart damage. Age 42. Thomas "Beans" Bowles (2000) - prostate cancer. Age 73. Sax and flute player for Motown. Keven "Dino" Conner (2003) - car crash. Age 28. Rapper with H-Town. Jim Capaldi (2005) - stomach cancer. Age 60. Traffic. Billy Powell (2009) - heart attack. Age 56. Keyboardist with Lynyrd Skynyrd. January 28 album releases - The J. Geils Band - Love Stinks (1980) David Lee Roth - Crazy From The Heat (1985) EP Events - 1956 - Elvis Presley (with Scotty Moore and Bill Black) made his first national television appearance on the Dorsey Brothers' "Stage Show." 1965 - The Who made their first appearance on the UK TV show "Ready Steady Go!" 1968 - Jim Morrison was arrested and charged with public drunkenness after harassing a security guard at a Las Vegas adult movie theater. 1985 - "We Are The World" was recorded at A&M Studios in Hollywood. 1994 - Paul and Linda McCartney attended the premiere of Wayne's World II in London. 2004 - Elvis Presley fans expressed their anger at plans to cut up a rare tape of the singer's and sell the snippets at an auction. The tape, which featured a recording made by Presley in the early 1950s, was now too fragile to play. U.S. firm, Master Tape Collection, said the tape would be cut into two-inch snippets and sold for $460 each. ____________________ Events correction - The Rolling Stones album Between The Buttons was released on January 20, 1967 in the UK, and February 11, 1967 in the U.S.
