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January 13

1884   Opera and pop star Sophie Tucker born.
1900   Composer Stephen Foster dies tripping over a washbasin while drunk on the Bowery. (1864)
1930   Bobby Lester of the Moonglows is born.
1938   Richard Anthony (Ricardo Btesch ) is born.
1948   John Lees of Barclay James Harvest is born.
1955   Fred White, drummer for Earth, Wind and Fire born.

Trevor Rabin of Yes is born.

1961   Suggs (Graham McPherson), singer from Madness (originally Invaders, or North London Invaders) born.
1964   Those mop tops release "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in the States.
1967   In an NME interview, Cliff Richard imagines he's Little Richard and announces his retirement and new career as a religious instructor to High Schoolers.
1968   Dr. K.C. Pollack, a scientist working at the University of Florida audio lab reports that noise at the level generated at a rock & roll concerts can be harmful to a teenager's hearing.
1969   Desperately, but successfully Elvis goes back to his roots and records in Memphis for the first time in over a dozen years. The sessions produce the Memphis Album, and his first #1 in a coon's age, "Suspicious Minds", a horrid piece of work that is his 18th to reach that mark.
1973   Eric Clapton (Eric Patrick Clapp) returns to live performing following a two year bout with drugs (heroin). At London's Rainbow, the two concerts were organized by Pete Townshend, who joined Eric on stage along with Ron Wood, Steve Winwood and Rick Grech, sets opening and closing with Eric's trademark song, "Layla".
1976   In response to the mood of and need for reform within the recording industry during the Federal payola investigations, seven Brunswick and Dakar Records employees are brought up on charges of stealing more than $184,000 of artist's royalties.
1978   Five months after his death, Elvis Presley's Gotterdamer-Vegas version of "My Way" goes gold. It had also gone gold when the King was living.

White reggae-punk band the Police enter the studio to record their first LP.

1979   R&B singer Donny Hathaway dies after falling (or being pushed?) from a 15th story window in his NYC hotel. He was 33.
1980   At California's Oakland Coliseum, The Beach Boys, the Greatful Dead and the Jefferson Starship are among those performing at a benefit for the newly formed and disaster plagued country of Kampuchea.
1984   Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin suffers a ruptured spleen in Miami pool mishap.

BBC officially bans "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood because of homosexual lyrics.

1986   The yet living Sex Pistols and Sid's Mum (Mrs. Beverly) sue former manager Malcolm McLaren and his company Glitterbest for unpaid royalties to the tune of £1 million. They settle out of court.
1993   In Augusta, GA, for the second time in his illustrious career, bad boy Bobby Brown is arrested for simulating a sex act on-stage.
1995   R.E.M. emerges in Perth, Australia. after a 5 year, 'electric' live show hiatus.