January 28 Born – Arthur Rubinstein (1887) Ronnie Scott (aka Ronald Schatt, 1928) – English sax player, jazz club owner. Acker Bilk (aka Bernard Stanley Bilk, 1929) Bill Phillips (1936) – Country music singer (“Put It Off Until Tomorrow”). Cornelia Ellis Wallace (1939) – Country singer/songwriter with Roy Acuff. King Tubby (aka Osbourne Ruddock, 1941) – Jamaican sound engineer. Dick Taylor (1943) – guitarist for The Pretty Things. Brian Keenan (1943) – drummer for Manfred Mann and The Chambers Brothers. Robert Wyatt (1945) – drummer/vocalist for Soft Machine. Rick Allen (1946) – bassist for The Gentrys and The Box Tops. William “Billy Bass” Nelson (1951) – bassist for Funkadelic. George Green (1952) – songwriter (“Hurts So Good”). Dave Sharpe (1959) – guitarist for The Alarm. Dan Spitz (1963) – guitarist for Anthrax. Sarah McLachlan (1968) DJ Muggs (aka Lawrence Muggerud, 1968) – DJ/producer for Cypress Hill. Joey Fatone (1977) – ‘N Sync. Nick Carter (1980) – The Backstreet Boys.
January 28 R.I.P. – Billy Fury (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. Melvyn Pritchard (2004) – heart attack. Age 56. Drummer for Barclay James Harvest. Jim Capaldi (2005) – stomach cancer. Age 60. Traffic. Billy Powell (2009) – heart attack. Age 56. Keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd. January 28 album releases – The J. Geils Band – Love Stinks (1980) Triumph – Never Surrender (1983) David Lee Roth – Crazy From The Heat (1985) EP Black Sabbath – Seventh Star (1986) Pat Boone – In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1997) Lou Reed – The Raven (2003) January 28 events – 1927 – Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra records “I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover” for Victor Records. 1940 – The musical quiz show Beat The Band debuts on NBC radio, hosted by Garry Moore and featuring the Ted Weems Orchestra with vocalist Perry Como. 1954 – The biopic, The Glenn Miller Story, premieres in London. 1955 – The first concert of the 42-date Top 10 R&B Show package tour, featuring The Clovers, The Charms, Joe Turner, The Bill Doggett Trio, Faye Adams, The Moonglows and Lowell Fulson, takes place in New York City. 1956 – Elvis Presley, with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, makes his first national television appearance on The Dorsey Brothers' CBS program, Stage Show, in New York City. 1957 – Brenda Lee releases her single, “One Step At A Time” b/w “Fairyland” on Decca Records. 1963 – The Beatles play the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the first time. 1964 – Sam Cooke records a double-time version of “Tennessee Waltz” at RCA studios in Hollywood. 1965 – The Who make their first appearance on the UK TV show Ready, Steady, Go! 1966 – Brian Poole quits The Tremeloes. 1967 – The Four Tops appear at the Royal Albert Hall. Also on the bill are The Dakotas, Madeline Bell, The Remo Four and Johnny Watson. Paul McCartney and George Harrison are in attendance. 1968 – Jim Morrison is arrested and charged with public drunkenness after harassing a security guard at a Las Vegas adult movie theater. 1968 – While on tour in Australia, The Who and Small Faces are escorted from their airplane by police at Melbourne's Essendon Airport for drinking beer, being rowdy and using "very bad language," and bringing the flight's four attendants to tears. 1968 – The 5th Dimension performs “Up, Up And Away” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show are Nancy Ames and Carol Lawrence. 1969 – Stevie Wonder releases his single, “My Cherie Amour” b/w “I Don’t Know Why I Love You” on Tamla. 1970 – The anti-war benefit concert, Winter Festival for Peace, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York, featuring Judy Collins, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ritchie Havens, Harry Belafonte, The Rascals, Dave Brubeck, the cast of Hair, and Jimi Hendrix with Band of Gypsys, who don’t even finish two songs before Hendrix walks off stage. Hendrix’s manager Michael Jefferies immediately fires Buddy Miles backstage, and Band Of Gypsys disbands right then and there. 1978 – The Doobie Brothers appear as themselves in the “Doobie, Or Not Doobie” episode of ABC-TV’s What’s Happening!! 1978 – Ted Nugent carves his autograph into a fan's arm with his bowie knife, per the fan’s request. 1984 – Backstage after a show in Buffalo, New York, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee finds out his girlfriend has posed for the current issue of Penthouse magazine - without his knowledge - when a fan comments on the pictures. Tommy punches the fan unconscious with one blow, forcing Crüe’s manager to try and convince the fan not to press charges when he comes to. 1985 – "We Are The World" is recorded at A&M Studios in Hollywood following the American Music Awards, featuring vocals by 44 of America’s top musicians and entertainers. 1988 – Metallica begins recording their In Justice For All album at One On One Studios in L.A. 1990 – Aaron Neville sings the National Anthem at Super Bowl XXIV in New Orleans. 1994 – Paul and Linda McCartney attend the premiere of Wayne's World II in London. 1996 – Diana Ross performs the halftime show at Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, Arizona. 1996 – Singer/songwriter Chris Isaak appears as “Rob Donnen” in the “The One After The Super Bowl” episode of NBC’s Friends. 1997 – Record executive Clive Davis receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1997 – MCA Records announces they have reached an agreement with the family of Jimi Hendrix to re-release his catalog in conjunction with Experience Hendrix, which controls his recordings. 1998 – Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher plays a 20-minute solo set in front of 250 fans at the King’s Head Pub in Santa Monica, California. 1999 – Pat Boone forms Gold Records, catering only to artists 45-years old and older. 2001 – Ray Charles sings “America, The Beautiful,” followed by The Backstreet Boys performing the National Anthem at Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Florida. 2004 – James Brown, age 70, is arrested and jailed on criminal domestic violence charges for pushing his wife down during an argument. 2004 – Elvis Presley fans express their anger at plans to cut up a rare tape of the singer's and sell the snippets at an auction. The tape, which features a recording made by Presley in the early 1950s, is 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
