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American Idol contestant Derrell Brittenum surrenders to the Georgia police. Along with his twin brother Terrell, Brittenum performed on the hit show while being wanted on theft and forgery charges.
Guitarist Charlotte Hatherley leaves Northern Irish punk-poppers Ash after ten (!) years with the band. The group describe the split as "completely amicable."
Charlotte Hatherley
Ash
R&B singer Mario stays on top of the Hot 100 singles chart for a fifth week with "Let Me Love You." Mariah Carey has the highest new entry, as "It's Like That" bows at No. 53.
Mario
Mariah Carey
Cold singer Scooter Ward denies the hard rockers have broken up after guitarist Terry Balsamo defects to join "Bring Me to Life" band Evanescence.
Cold
Evanescence
John Mayer, Common, Roc-A-Fella CEOs Damon Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke attend a listening session at New York's Sony Studios for aspiring rapper Kanye West's debut album College Dropout.
Kanye West
John Mayer
Common
A memorial service for singer Kirsty MacColl is held at London's St. Martin's-in-the-Field church. The "A New England" singer had been run over by a boat last December.
Kirsty MacColl
Alice Nutter, a member of "Tubthumping" band Chumbawumba, says on Politically Incorrect that the Leeds anarchist collective support fans who steal a copy of their album. In response, Virgin Megastores pulls the disc from their shelves.
Chumbawamba
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Drifters, Berry Gordy Jr., the Supremes, Les Paul, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. Beach Boys singer Mike Love gives a rambling speech in which he insults Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen and even Mick Jagger. Paul McCartney himself does not attend, refusing to play with George Harrison or Ringo Starr due to business differences.
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
The Drifters
The Supremes
Les Paul
Woody Guthrie
Leadbelly
Diana Ross
Bruce Springsteen
Mick Jagger
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan perform at a Martin Luther King Day concert in Washington, D.C.
Stevie Wonder
Bob Dylan
Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat thrown onstage by a fan in Des Moines, Iowa. He is taken to hospital to undergo a rabies injection.
Ozzy Osbourne
British DJ John Peel plays Pink Floyd's Animals on air for the first time.
Pink Floyd
John Peel
Rock 'n' roll wildman Jerry Lee Lewis performs at the Grand Ole Opry for the first time. The Opry officials ask him to play only country music and refrain from using any obscenities. But guess what? The Killer plays "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On" before exclaiming, "I am the rock 'n' rollin', country and western, rhythm and blues singin' motherf*cker." The Ol' Dirty Bastard of his day, really.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bob Dylan begins recording in Mexico City the soundtrack to Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, a Western starring Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn and himself.
Bob Dylan
Kris Kristofferson
John Lennon and Yoko Ono both cut their hair off in Denmark and declare it to be Year One. Drugs, anyone?
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Shooting for the Beatles documentary Let It Be moves to the basement of 3 Saville Row, where Apple have their headquarters and the Beatles have put in a new recording studio.
The Beatles
Filming begins at The UFO Club in London for a TV documentary about the famous psychedelic venue, featuring up and coming band Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd
DJ Alan Freed dies in Palm Springs, Calif. Having coined the term "rock 'n' roll," the self-styled "Moondog" profited from the genre's growth with his definitive package tours and payola received from labels. A government investigation into the payola practice, however, ended up ruining his career.
Alan Freed
Meet the Beatles is released in the United States.
The Beatles
KWK, a radio station in St. Louis, wraps up their "Record Breaking Week". After the station manager Robert Convey decided rock 'n' roll should be banned from their airwaves, DJs were allowed to play every rock record in their library once on air and then smash it to pieces. Convey describes the stunt as "a simple weeding out of undesirable music."
Paul Stanley, the guitarist with KISS who was once described as "the world's most passionate man," is born in Queens, N.Y. The world's most passionate man's real name is Stanley Harvey Eisen.
Paul Stanley
Kiss
Bonkers film director and soundtrack artist David Lynch is born. As well as writing and producing Julee Cruise's Floating into the Night album, his Eraserhead soundtrack could be considered a seminal industrial recording.
Julee Cruise
Drummer Jimmy Chambers of Mercury Rev (Deserter's Songs) is born in Trinidad.
Mercury Rev
Singer/guitarist Eric Stewart of the '70s pop group 10cc ("I'm Not in Love") is born in Manchester, England.
100 C
Ron Towson of the 5th Dimension ("Up-Up and Away") is born in St. Louis.
The 5th Dimension
Yodeling wonder Slim Whitman is born in Tampa, Fla., as Otis Dewey Whitman Jr.
Slim Whitman
Lizard king of the space-age bachelor lounge Esquivel is born in Tampico, Mexico as Juan Garcia Esquivel.
Esquivel
 
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