January 18 Born – Bobby Goldsboro (1941) – singer/songwriter. David Ruffin (1941) – The Temptations. Dave Greenslade (1943) – keyboardist for Colosseum. "Legs" Larry Smith (1944) – drummer for Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Brett Hudson (1953) – The Hudson Brothers. Tom Bailey (1954) – Thompson Twins. Bob Rosenberg (1959) – Will To Power. DJ Quik (aka David Blake, 1970) – rapper/producer. Jonathan Davis (1971) – vocalist for Korn. Crispian Mills (1973) – singer/songwriter/guitarist. Luther Dickinson (1973) – guitarist for The North Mississippi Allstars and The Black Crowes.
January 18 R.I.P. – McKinley Mitchell (1986) – heart attack. Age 51. R&B/soul singer (“The Town I Live In”). Charles Baskerville (1995) – Age 58. Shep and The Limelites. Keith Diamond (1997) – heart attack. Age 46. Songwriter (“Caribbean Queen”). Kate McGarrigle (2010) – cancer. Age 63. The McGarrigle Sisters. January 18 album releases – Smokey Robinson – Deep In My Soul (1977) Diana Ross – An Evening With Diana Ross (1977) Gentle Giant – Playing The Fool (1977) Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (1978) Sheena Easton – Take My Time (1981) Jean-Luc Ponty – Mystical Adventures (1982) Bryan Adams – Cuts Like A Knife (1983) Soul Asylum – Made To Be Broken (1986) AC/DC – Blow Up Your Video (1988) ZZ Top – Antenna (1994) Mark Lanegan – Whiskey For The Holy Ghost (1994) January 18 events – 1939 – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra records “Jeepers Creepers” in New York. 1944 – New York City's Metropolitan Opera House holds its first jazz concert, featuring Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. 1948 – The Ted Mack Amateur Hour debuts on television on the DuMont Network. 1964 – The Beatles’ Capitol single “I Want To Hold Your Hand” hits the Billboard Hot 100 at #45. 1965 – Paul Simon drops out of law school to pursue a career in music full time. 1965 – Barbra Streisand and Bobby Darin perform at President Lyndon Johnson's presidential inauguration. 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience performs “Hey Joe” on Top Of The Pops. In the evening, the group appears at the 7 1/2 Club in Mayfair, London. 1967 – Simon and Garfunkel record “At The Zoo.” 1968 – At a White House luncheon to discuss the rise in juvenile delinquency, Eartha Kitt gets into a heated argument with First Lady "Lady Bird" Johnson, declaring, "Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason." Although accounts of the argument differ, Kitt is subsequently blackballed in America. 1969 – Former Beatles drummer Pete Best wins his defamation lawsuit against the group. Initially seeking $8 million, Best will but settle for much less. 1973 – The Rolling Stones hold a benefit concert for Nicaragua at the L.A. Forum, raising over $200,000. 1974 – Free's Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke, Mott The Hoople's Mick Ralphs, and King Crimson's Boz Burrell unite to form Bad Company. 1975 – Chicago Mayor Richard Daley officially declares the day “Bobby Vinton Day.” 1977 – Linda Ronstadt, Aretha Franklin and The Charlie Daniels Band perform at President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural celebration. John Lennon and Paul Simon are in attendance. 1978 – Neil Sedaka receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1978 – Roy Orbison undergoes triple bypass heart surgery in Nashville. 1980 – Southern-based Capricorn Records files for bankruptcy. 1981 – The Plasmatics’ Wendy O. Williams is arrested in Milwaukee for allegedly simulating masturbation with a sledgehammer on stage. 1984 – Van Halen plays the first night of their 103-date 1984 Tour at the Jacksonville Coliseum in Florida. 1985 – A USA Today newspaper poll selects Cleveland, Ohio as the future home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1987 – Steve Winwood marries Tennessee native Eugenia Crafton. They’re still married. 1990 – Eric Clapton plays the first night of an 18-night residency at the Royal Albert Hall in London. 1991 – Three teenagers are trampled and crushed to death at AC/DC’s concert at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. Jimmie Boyd (14), Curtis Child (14) and Elizabeth Glausi (19) had general admission tickets on the main floor when AC/DC took the stage and the crowd surged forward. The concert proceeded, with the band unaware of the tragedy. 1991 – The first night of the three-day Brits 1991 concert series takes place at Wembley Arena. Acts appearing over the three days include The Happy Mondays, The Farm, Jesus Jones, The Cure, New Model Army, Quireboys, Ozzy Osbourne and others. 1993 – Elton John resigns as director of the Watford Football Club. 1995 – The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia escapes unhurt when he crashes his rented BMW into a guardrail near Mill Valley, California. 1996 – Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson. 2000 – Convicted of kidnapping and murdering the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham in 1991, Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Ham is present for the execution. 2003 – The Rolling Stones appear at Madison Square Garden, and the concert is broadcast live on HBO. 2004 – Jennifer Lopez's divorce from her second husband Cris Judd became finalized. 2005 – Motown producer Norman Whitfield pleads guilty to failing to report royalty income he earned from 1995 to 1999 to the I.R.S. Facing charges of tax evasion on over $2 million worth of income, he is sentenced to six months of house arrest and a $25,000 fine. The producer is not imprisoned because of health problems. 2006 – Former teen idol Leif Garrett pleads not guilty in a New York courtroom to possession of heroin after being arrested for not paying a subway fare. Garret is held without bail. 2006 – The animals in Michael Jackson's private zoo are declared to be in good health when officials pay a surprise visit to the singer's Neverland ranch. A medical officer from the U.S. Department of Agriculture also inspects the property following concerns voiced by the animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Jackson is not at home, having already abandoned his Neverland Ranch to live in Bahrain in the Middle East. 2007 – Ted Nugent appears at the inaugural ball for Texas governor Rick Perry and upsets everyone when he walks on stage wearing a t- shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag and carrying a fake machine gun, and then launching into an angry tirade about citizens who don’t speak English. 2008 – Four photographers are arrested for reckless driving after they chase Britney Spears' car on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The four are seen following Spears' car too closely and travelling at unsafe speeds and making several unsafe lane changes. The men are held on $5,000 bail. 2009 – Donovan is made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. 2011 – The largest collection of Beatles memorabilia goes on display in a new museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina when Rodolfo Vazquez, a 53- year old accountant, turns his mammoth Beatles collection into a museum with more than 8,500 objects - setting a new world record for the largest collection of Beatles memorabilia. Some of the items include a box of condoms bearing the names of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, a brick from the Cavern Club, a chunk of the stage from the Star Club in Hamburg, and certified copies of the band members' birth certificates.
