1972, Harry Nilsson started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with his version of the Badfinger song 'Without You.'  | 1972, Led Zeppelin appeared at the Memorial Drive, Adelaide in Australia. |  | | 1976, Kilburn And The High Roads, (featuring Ian Dury), appeared at Dingwalls, Camden Town, London, England. | | | 1976, Former lead singer with Tower Of Power, Rich Stevens was arrested in connection with the drug related murders of three men in San Jose, California. Stevens was found guilty of the charges in November 1976. | | | 1977, '20 Golden Greats' by The Shadows started a six-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart. | | | 1977, Leo Sayer had his only UK No.1 single with the Albert Hammond and Carole Bayer Sager song 'When I Need You.' Both Celine Dion and Cliff Richard have scored hits with the song. | | | 1977, Manfred Mann's Earth Band scored a No.1 single in the US with their version of the Bruce Springsteen song 'Blinded By The Light.' | | 1982, Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in San Antonio, Texas for urinating on the Alamo. Osbourne was wearing a dress at the time of his arrest.  | 1983, Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley married his girlfriend Leonie. | | | 1983, Kajagoogoo had their only UK No.1 single with 'Too Shy'. Also a hit in other European countries, 5 weeks at No.1 in Germany, a Top 5 hit in Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, and Netherlands. The group had four other Top 40 hits UK hits. | | | 1983, Patti Austin and James Ingram started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Baby Come To Me', a No.11 hit in the UK. | | | 1989, Billed as "The 1989 World Tour Starts Here", Simply Red played the Edinburgh Playhouse. Tickets cost £10 ($17). | | | 1992, During their Use Your Illusion Tour Guns n' Roses played the first of three nights at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. | | | 1994, John Michael Montgomery went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Kickin' It Up'. | | 1994, Mariah Carey had her first UK No.1 with her version of the Peter Ham Tom Evans song 'Without You'. Nilsson also took the song to No.1 in 1972. (Carey's version was released on January 24, 1994, just over a week after Nilsson had died following a heart attack). Both Ham and Evans committed suicide, (Ham in 1975 and Evans in 1983) after an ongoing battle to receive royalties from the song.  | 1995, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee married Baywatch's Pamela Anderson on a Cancun beach, the bride wore a white bikini. | | | 1995, Roxette became the first Western group to perform in Beijing since George Michael in 1984 when they played a concert celebrating the Chinese New Year. | 1996, Bjork was shown on UK breakfast TV attacking a news reporter as she arrived at Thailand Airport. The footage showed the singer pulling the female reporter to the floor and banging her head on the ground. Bjork later apologised for the attack.  1996, Winners at this year's Brit Awards included Paul Weller who won British Male Solo Artist, British Female Solo Artist went to Annie Lennox, Oasis won British Group, Best Album for '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' and Best British Video for 'Wonderwall. British Breakthrough Act went to Supergrass, International Group was Bon Jovi, International Breakthrough Act went to Alanis Morissette and David Bowie was awarded Outstanding Contribution to music. Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker was arrested after a stage invasion during Michael Jackson's appearance, (who won Artist of a Generation). Cocker was accused of attacking children who were performing with Jackson; all charges against Cocker were dropped on March 11th of this year.  | 2000, Savage Garden went back to No.1 on the US singles chart for the second time with 'I Knew I Loved You.' | | 2004, Johnny Cash's family blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song 'Ring of Fire' to promote haemorrhoid-relief products. The idea is said to have been backed by Merle Kilgore, who co-wrote the song with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash. Cash's daughter Rosanne said the family "would never allow the song to be demeaned like that."
 | 2008, Two releases by Oasis were voted the best British albums ever recorded in a poll of 11,000 people. Their 1994 album Definitely Maybe came top, while their 1995 follow-up (What's the Story) Morning Glory was second in the vote for Q magazine and HMV. Radiohead's OK Computer finished third, followed by Revolver by The Beatles and the Stone Roses' self-titled debut. The full list of 50 British albums included five by The Beatles.
| February 19th: Born on this day | | | 1924, Born on this day, Lee Marvin, actor and singer who had a UK 1970 UK No.1 single with 'Wand'rin Star', taken from the film 'Paint Your Wagon'. Marvin died on August 29th 1987. | | | 1940, Born on this day, Bobby Rogers, The Miracles, (1970 UK & US No.1 single with Smokey Robinson 'Tears of a Clown'). | | | 1940, Born on this day, Smokey Robinson, singer, songwriter, producer, The Miracles, (1970 UK & US No.1 single 'The Tears Of A Clown',) solo (1981 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'Being With You'), vice President of Motown Records in 1972. | | | 1943, Born on this day, Lou Christie, US singer, (1966 US No.1 single 'Lightnin Strikes', 1969 UK No.2 single 'I'm Gonna Make You Mine'). | | | 1946, Born on this day, Pierre Van Den Linden, drums, Focus, (1973 UK No.4 single 'Sylvia', 1973 US No. 9 single 'Hocus Pocus'). | | 1948, Born on this day, Toni Iommi, guitar, Black Sabbath, (1970 UK No.4 single 'Paranoid'). The bands self-titled album was voted as the best British rock albums ever by Kerrang! in 2005.  | 1948, Born on this day, Mark Andes, Spirit, (1969 US No.25 single 'I Got A Line On You'), Jo Jo Gunne, (1972 UK No.6 & US No. 27 single 'Run Run Run'). | | | 1949, Born on this day, Eddie Hardin, keyboards, replaced Steve Winwood, The Spencer Davis Group, (1966 UK No.1 single 'Keep On Running'). | | | 1950, Born on this day, Andy Powell, guitar, Wishbone Ash, (1972 UK No.3 album 'Argus', plus eight other Top 40 albums). | | | 1957, Born on this day, Dave Wakeling, The Beat, (1983 UK No.3 single 'Can't Get Used To Losing You''). | | | 1957, Born on this day, Falco, (Hans Holzl), 1986 UK & US No.1 single 'Rock Me Amadeus'. Falco became the first-ever Austrian act to score a UK and US No.1 hit single. He was killed in a car accident on 6th February 1998. | | | 1960, Born on this day, Prince Mark D, Fat Boys, (1988 UK No.2 single 'Wipeout'). | | 1963, Born on this day, Henry Samuel, singer, songwriter, (Seal). 1991 UK No.2 single 'Crazy', 1995 US No.1 & UK No.4 single 'Kiss From A Rose', 1991 self-titled album spent 65 weeks on the UK chart.
| | 1965, Born on this day, Kate Radley, keyboards, Spiritualized, (1995 UK No.30 single 'Let It Flow'). | | | 1975, Born on this day, Daniel Adair, drummer, 3 Doors Down, (2003 US No.4 single 'When I'm Gone'). Joined Nickelback in 2005. | | | | |
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