January 25 Born –
Ewan MacColl (1915) – songwriter ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face").
Farrell "Rusty" Draper (1923) – Country/pop singer.
Wesley “Speedy” West (1924) – pedal steel guitarist.
Barbara Carroll (aka Barbara Coopersmith, 1925) – Be-bop jazz pianist.
Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927) – Brazilian songwriter/pianist (“The Girl
>From Impanema”).
Stig Anderson (1931) – manager of ABBA.
Etta James (1938) – R&B singer.
John Cooper Clarke (1949) – “punk poet.”
Michael Cotten (1950) – synthesizer player for The Tubes.
Malcolm Green (1953) – drummer for Split Enz.
Richard Finch (1954) – singer with KC and The Sunshine Band.
Andy Cox (1956) – guitarist for The Beat.
Edmund Sylvers (1957) – The Sylvers.
Gary Brian Tibbs (1958) – Adam & The Ants.
China Kantner (1971) – actress/daughter of Paul Kantner & Grace Slick.
Alicia Keys (1981)
January 25 R.I.P. –
Chris Kenner (1976) – heart attack. Age 46. R&B singer/songwriter ("I
Like It Like That").
Albert Grossman (1986) – heart attack. Age 59. Manager for Bob Dylan.
Ray Peterson (2005) – cancer. Age 65. American singer ("Corina,
Corina").
Dick Kniss (2012) – heart disease. Age 74. Folk bassist for John
Denver and Peter, Paul & Mary.
January 25 album releases –
Cilla Black – Cilla (1965)
John Phillips – John Phillips (John, The Wolf King Of L.A.) (1970)
Cher – Take Me Home (1979)
Phil Collins – No Jacket Required (1985)
Gary Moore – After The War (1989)
Alice In Chains – Jar Of Flies (1994)
Meat Puppets – Too High To Die (1994)
January 25 events –
1957 – Marty Robbins records “A White Sport Coat (And A Pink
Carnation)” at Columbia Studios in New York City. The record is
produced by Mitch Miller and led by Ray Conniff. Musicians on the
recording include Billy Mure and Al Caiola on guitars, Dick Hyman on
piano, Frank Carroll on bass, and Ed Shaughnessy on drums.
1960 – Sam Cooke records "Chain Gang" at RCA Studios in New York.
1963 – Cilla Black makes her debut appearance at the Cavern club in
Liverpool.
1963 – The Rolling Stones play at the Ricky Tick Club at the Star and
Garter Hotel in Windsor, Berkshire: their first appearance at the
venue with their classic line-up, including Charlie Watts and Bill
Wyman.
1964 – Phil Spector appears as a panelist on the UK TV show Juke Box
Jury.
1967 – Leslie Gore makes her second appearance as Pussycat in the
“Scat! Darn Catwoman” episode of Batman, lip-synching to her song
“Maybe Now.”
1967 – The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” receives three more mono mixes -
removing the piccolo trumpet at the end of the song - before being
quickly sent to the U.S. for pressing.
1969 – Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" debuts on the
Billboard Hot 100.
1969 – Pink Floyd appears at the 69 Club at the Royal York Hotel in
Ryde on the Isle of Wight, with opening act The Cherokees.
1970 – B.J. Thomas, Little Anthony and The Imperials and Patti Page
all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1974 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis
in front of 17,000.
1978 – Joy Division makes their live debut at Pip’s Disco in
Manchester, England.
1980 – Paul McCartney is released from jail in Japan after nine days
and deported.
1984 – Yoko Ono donates £250,000 to the Liverpool Salvation Army
orphanage Strawberry Field.
1987 – Neil Diamond performs the National Anthem at Super Bowl XXI in
Pasadena, California.
1988 – George Harrison releases his single, “When We Was Fab” b/w “Zig
Zag.”
1989 – Bobby Brown is arrested for an overtly sexually suggestive
performance after a show in Columbus, Georgia, under the anti-lewdness
ordinance law. He is fined $652.
1989 – Madonna files for divorce from Sean Penn for the second time in
a month.
1990 – Righteous Brother Bill Medley appears as himself in the
“Finally!” episode of NBC’s Cheers.
1990 – Paul McCartney is profiled on the CBS news program 48 Hours.
1991 – Paul McCartney performs "unplugged" for the MTV Unplugged
series.
1992 – The first Big Day Out festival takes place at the Hordern
Pavilion in Sydney. Acts appearing include Nirvana, Beasts of Bourbon,
Box the Jesuits, Celibate Rifles, Violent Femmes and others.
1992 – Emmylou Harris becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
1995 – Michael Jackson reaches an out of court settlement of $25
million with Jordie Chandler: the boy who accused him of sexual
molestation.
1999 – The Rolling Stones begin their No Security Tour at the Oakland
Arena in California.
2001 – Pop mogul Jonathan King is charged with 11 offenses against
young men and boys, most of them under 16 years old, dating back to
the 1970s.
2003 – Clarence Carter and Eddie Floyd are inducted into the Alabama
Music Hall of Fame.
2003 – Billy Joel escapes relatively unharmed when he totals his
Mercedes-Benz by crashing into a tree while driving in Sag Harbor on
Long Island.
2004 – Bob Dylan is paid by Victoria’s Secret to fly to Venice to film
a TV advertisement in an ancient palazzo with a scantily dressed
model.
2007 – Roger Waters kicks off the Australian leg of his Dark Side Of
The Moon Live world tour at the Acer Arena in Sydney.
2008 – British Sea Power's keyboard and cornet player Phil Sumner is
hospitalized after being knocked unconscious when the crowd at Leeds
Irish Centre fail to catch him when he jumps off a 12-foot PA system
in a stage dive and landing head first.
2008 – Billy Joel donates $500,000 to Homes For Our Troops, an
organization that helps disabled U.S. military veterans.
2011 – Canadian singer Mary Lu Zahalan, 53, becomes the first person
in the world to graduate with a Masters Degree in The Beatles. She was
one of the first students to sign up for the course on the Fab Four
when it launched at Liverpool Hope University in March 2009, which
looks at the studio sound and composition of The Beatles and how
Liverpool helped to shape their music as well as examining the
significance of the music of The Beatles and their impact on Western
culture.
2011 – Dr. Conrad Murray pleads not guilty to the charge of the
involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson.
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