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February 6

1943   Pop singer Fabian Born (Fabiano Forte).
1945   Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley) born in Jamaica, jah be praised.
1950   Multi Grammy winning singer Natalie Cole, daughter of jazz and pop legend Nat "King" Cole, born in Los Angeles, CA. Former marriages include producer Marvin Yancey, Jr. and producer /ex-Rufus drummer Andre Fischer.
1955   Elvis Presley's first live performance held in Memphis at the Tennessee Auditorium.
1960   Doo Wop singer Jesse Belvin (writer of "Earth Angel") dies in car crash.
1966   Melissa Brooke Belland of Voice of the Beehive born.
1971   Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn debut on the Country Charts with "After The Fire Is Gone".
1976   Jazz composer Vince Guaraldi dies at the age of 47. ("Cast Your Fate To the Wind"). He also did the music for those horrid slow moving Peanuts TV specials.
1981   55-year-old Hugo Montenegro, composer and musician best known for his recording of the theme for the film "The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly", dies.
1990   Rocker Billy Idol finishes recording Charmed Life in LA, then proceed to crash his motorcycle breaking an arm and a leg.
1995   Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp has an emergency operation in London to remove a brain tumor.
2000 The Billy Joel song "Captain Jack" creates an uproar in New York politics when it is played at the rally of First Lady Hillary Clinton where she announces her canadency for the US Senate. The song touting masterbation and Heroin use, played by mistake, outrages conservatives. The low point comes when her Republican opponent, the totalatarian mayor of New York City, Rudolph Guliani, states, "This proves that their message to young people is, Just say 'Yes' to drugs."