This Day in Music: January 9th

This Day in Music: January 9th

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Born on this day:
1941, Joan Baez, folk singer, songwriter
1944, Jimmy Page, guitarist, producer, The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin
1944, Scott Engel (a.k.a. Scott Walker), vocals, The Walker Brothers
1948, Bill Cowsill, vocals, The Cowsills
1950, David Johansen, vocals, The New York Dolls
1957, Phil Lewis, vocals, L.A. Guns
1967, Steve Harwell, vocals, Smash Mouth
1967, Dave Matthews, guitar, vocals, Dave Matthews Band
1978, AJ McLean, vocals, Backstreet Boys
1987, Paolo Nutini, singer, songwriter

1973, Mick Jagger was refused a Japanese visa on an account of a 1969 drug conviction, causing The Rolling Stones to cancel a forthcoming tour.

1979, The music for UNICEF concert took place in New York City featuring Rod Stewart, The Bee Gees, Earth, Wind and Fire, ABBA and Donna Summer.

1981, Terry Hall and Jerry Dammers from The Specials were both fined ?400 ($680) after being found guilty of using threatening words during a gig in Cambridge, England.

1997, David Bowie performed his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, New York, with guests Frank Black, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, The Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, and Billy Corgan and Placebo. Proceeds from the concert went to the Save the Children fund.

2003, A grand piano once owned by Elvis Presley was sold for $685,000. Music producer Robert Johnson and partner Larry Moss sold the piano to the chairman of the Blue Moon Group, Michael Muzio, who was planning to take the piano on a casino-sponsored promotional tour. He was then planning for the piano to be shown at the proposed rock museum at Walt Disney World.

2005, The Scissor Sisters went to #1 on the U.K. album chart with their self-titled album. They went on to win Best International Album as well as Best International Group and International Breakthrough Act at the 2005 Brit awards.

2009, Dave Dee died at the age of 65, following a three-year battle with cancer. The U.K. singer had eight Top 10 hits with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich including a U.K. #1 single in 1968 with “The Legend of Xanadu,” in which Dee famously cracked a whip. The singer, whose real name was David Harman, was originally a police officer and, as a police cadet, was called to the scene of the car crash that killed Eddie Cochran during a U.K. tour in 1960. For more on Dee, see This Day in Music Spotlight.

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