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February 18

1914   Pee Wee King, bandleader and singer born in Milwaukee. Pee Wee worked with Gene Autry and often appeared at the Opry.
1931   Johnny Hart, jazz saxophonist who worked with John Coltrane, born.
1934   This year, or maybe a year earlier, Yoko Ono, artist and widow of John Lennon, born in Tokyo, Japan.
1953   Robin Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive born.
1961   Brian James, of the Damned and Lords of the New Church, born.
1968   David Gilmore joins Pink Floyd.
1969   Lulu (Marie McDonald Laurie), singer of "To Sir With Love" marries Bee Gee Maurice Gibb at Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, UK.
1971   Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band make their first trip to New York City, performing at Unganos.
1974   Bad Company formed by former members of Mott the Hoople and Free.
1978   British Punk fanzine "Sniffin' Glue" ceases publication.
1995   Ex-Replacement guitarist, Bob Stinson, is found dead in his Minneapolis, MN, apartment, apparently of a drug overdose.