February 4 Born –
Paul Burlison (1929) – The Rock And Roll Trio.
Gil Bernal (1931) – Jazz saxophonist.
John Steel (1941) – drummer for The Animals.
Florence LaRue (1944) – The Fifth Dimension.
Marguerite "Marge" Ganser (1948) – The Shangri-Las.
Mary Ann Ganser (1948) – The Shangri-Las.
Alice Cooper (aka Vincent Furnier, 1948)
James Dunn (1950) – The Stylistics.
Phil Ehart (1950) – drummer for Kansas.
Jerry Shirley (1952) – drummer for Humble Pie.
Tim Booth (1960) – vocalist for James.
Clint Black (1962) – Country music artist.
Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman (1963) – guitarist for The Offspring.
Steve Queralt (1968) – bassist for Ride.
Natalie Imbruglia (1975) – singer/songwriter.
Cameron Muncey (1980) – guitarist for Jet.
Kimberly Wyatt (1982) – singer/songwriter/dancer/actress, The Pussycat
Dolls.
February 4 R.I.P. –
Cecil Gant (1951) – heart attack. Age 37. Blues pianist, singer/
songwriter ("I Wonder").
Louis Jordan (1975) – heart attack. Age 66. Jazz bandleader.
Alex Harvey (1982) – heart attack. Age 46. The Sensational Alex Harvey
Band.
Karen Carpenter (1983) – heart failure. Age 32.
Liberace (1987) – pneumonia due to AIDS. Age 67.
Ken “Jethro” Burns (1989) – prostate cancer. Age 68. Homer and Jethro.
Trevor Lucas (1989) – heart attack. Age 45. Guitarist for Fairport
Convention.
Doris Coley (2000) – breast cancer. Age 58. The Shirelles.
J. J. Johnson (2001) – suicide. Age 77. Bebop jazz trombonist.
Barbara McNair (2007) – throat cancer. Age 72. Singer/actress.
Lux Interior (2009) – aortic dissection. Age 62. The Cramps.
February 4 album releases –
Elvis Presley – Aloha From Hawaii: Via Satellite (1973)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (1977)
The Ramones – End Of The Century (1980)
The Buggles – Age Of Plastic (1980)
Echo & The Bunnymen – Porcupine (1983)
Widespread Panic – Space Wrangler (1988)
Bob Marley and The Wailers – Talkin’ Blues (1991)
Widespread Panic – Bombs And Butterflies (1997)
Tony Bennett – Tony Bennett On Holiday (1997)
February 4 events –
1954 – The Drifters record “Bells Of Saint Mary's,” “White Christmas,”
“Honey Love” and “What'cha Gonna Do” at Coastal Recording Studio in
New York City.
1955 – Elvis Presley, along with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, play two
shows in the auditorium at Jesuit High School in New Orleans.
1956 – James Brown records "Please, Please, Please" at King Studios in
Cincinnati.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his second appearance on the Dorsey
Brothers’ program Stage Show, singing “Baby, Let's Play House” and
“Tutti Frutti.”
1958 – Nat “King” Cole records “Looking Back” in L.A.
1959 – Frankie Avalon and Jimmy Clanton become the headliners of the
Winter Dance Party Tour, following the plane crash that killed Buddy
Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper.
1961 – Johnny Burnett is rushed to Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon
Hospital for an emergency appendectomy, and is forced to cancel
several U.S. concert dates and a European tour.
1966 – The Rolling Stones release "19th Nervous Breakdown" b/w "As
Tears Go By" in the UK.
1966 – The Who begin their first UK tour as headliners at the Finsbury
Park Astoria, with opening acts The Fortunes and The Merseys.
1966 – Bob Dylan and The Band begin a world tour at the Convention
Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
1968 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appears at the Winterland Ballroom
in San Francisco on their 60 Cities In 66 Days tour.
1968 – The Beatles continue work on John Lennon’s “Across The
Universe,” laying down four takes and Lennon’s lead vocal, after which
Paul McCartney goes outside and brings in two girls, 16-year old
Lizzie Bravo and 17-year old Gayleen Pease, to sing the phrase,
“Nothing’s gonna change my world” several times before being escorted
back out.
1969 – In response to the other members signing on with Allen Klein,
Paul McCartney hires Eastman & Eastman as general legal counsel for
Apple.
1971 – John Denver records “Take Me Home, Country Roads” at RCA
Studios in New York City.
1971 – Diana Ross appears as Diana Hendricks in the “Will The Real
Diana Please Stand Up?” episode of Danny Thomas’ Make Room For
Granddaddy.
1972 – U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell receives a secret memo from
Senator Strom Thurmond, urging the deportation of John Lennon due to
his antiwar stance.
1974 – Elton John releases his single "Benny And The Jets" b/w
"Harmony."
1977 – American Bandstand celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a huge
all-star cast, including Chuck Berry, Seals and Crofts, Gregg Allman,
Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers, The Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels,
Doc Severinsen, The Carpenters, Bobby Rydell, Les McCann, Donald Byrd,
Stevie Wonder, Chuck Mangione, Isaac Hayes, Bo Diddley and many
others.
1984 – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble kick off their 114-date
Couldn't Stand The Weather tour at the War Memorial Auditorium in
Nashville, Tennessee.
1991 – Cher’s television special, Cher At The Mirage, airs on CBS.
1992 – Pearl Jam appears at The Borderline in London on their first UK
tour.
1996 – Former Milli Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized in
Hollywood after a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat as
Pilatus was trying to steal the man’s car.
1998 – Former lead singer for East 17, Brian Harvey, is fined £1,000
after being convicted of kicking a press photographer who was curled
up on the ground in a ball in an attempt to fend off the blows. Harvey
is also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £2,852.
1999 – Tex-Mex singer/songwriter Freddy Fender receives a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 – Jimmy Buffett is ejected from the American Airlines Arena in
Miami during a Heat/Knicks NBA basketball game for cursing at referee
Joe Forte.
2000 – Bjorn Ulvaeus confirms that the members of ABBA turned down a
$1 billion offer by an American and British consortium to reform the
group. "It is a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it
wasn't for us," band member Benny Andersson tells the Swedish
newspaper Aftonbladet.
2002 – On civil-rights activist Rosa Parks' 89th birthday, Stevie
Wonder sings his song "Happy Birthday" to her at the premiere of her
bio-pic, Ride To Freedom: The Rosa Parks Story.
2003 – Courtney Love is arrested at Heathrow Airport in England for
“endangering an aircraft” on a transatlantic flight, after the singer
hurled abuse at the cabin crew on the flight from Los Angeles to
London when her nurse - who was in the Economy section - was not
allowed to sit with Love in First Class.
2007 – Razorlight's gig in Lyon is halted mid-set due to an
altercation between singer Johnny Borrell and bassist Carl Dalemo,
when the pair exchange insults before coming to blows onstage. Borrell
then storms off, leaving the French crowd amazed and unsure about what
is going on.
2007 – Billy Joel sings the National Anthem, and Prince provides the
halftime entertainment at Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Florida.
2009 – In an interview on UK’s Absolute Radio, Robert Plant says he
feels Led Zeppelin can't reunite for a full tour and album because the
band is incomplete without drummer John Bonham, stating, “The reason
that it stopped was because we were incomplete, and we've been
incomplete now for 29 years. I think the thing about it is really, is
that to visit old ground, it's a very incredibly delicate thing to do,
and the disappointment that could be there once you commit to that and
the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a
different kind of exuberance to now, it's very hard to go back and
meet that head on and do it justice.”
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