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January 28

1927   British club owner and jazz advocate Ronnie Scott is born.
1929   Sleepy trad jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk, is nee Bernard Bilk in Pensford, Somerset, England.
1933   Pop singer Sacha Distel is born.
1936   Bill Phillips is born.
1943   Rick Wright of Pink Floyd is born.
1944   Chambers Brothers drummer Brian Keenan born.

Achim Reichel of the Rattles is born.

Martin Leslie Fried of the Cyrkle ("Red Rubber Ball") is born.

1945   Drummer Robert Wyatt is born.
1946   On this day or the next, Rick Allen of the psych-pop Box Tops born.
1948   Corky Laing, drummer for Woodstock proto-metal Mountain, is born. (See entry for 1/26)
1956   Elvis makes his national TV debut on The Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show.

Peter Schilling is born.

1959   David Sharp of the Alarm born.
1967   Brian Pool and the Tremeloes call it quits to man the counter at the family butcher shop in Essex. It was this band that was signed in favor of the Beatles when they first auditioned for Capitol.
1968   Roger Daltry's wife Jacqueline sues for divorce.

In Australia, authorities pull The Who, the Small Faces and Paul Jones off a plane when they harass a stewardess.

1976   Garry Glitter, British Glam Rocker announces his retirement.
1978   The Motor City Madman and avid hunter, Ted Nugent, carves his name on a fan's arm with a Bowie knife.
1983   UK rocker and balladeer Billy Fury died from a heart attack at the age of 41. Some of his hits from the late 50s and early 60s: "Halfway to Paradise", "Collette", and "Jealousy".

WDHA in NJ claims to be the first US station to air a compact disc.

1984   After only a slight delay, Never Mind the Bullocks - Here's the Sex Pistols, goes gold in the US.

This week the UK indie single charts show an unprecedented 1,2, & 3 by the Smiths.

Curiosity plugs the charts in the UK as the debut single from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Relax", goes to #1 when one dorky DJ, Mike Read, refuses to play the gay-tinged vinyl, and other BBC cronies rarely give it a spin.

Al Dexter dies.

1985   The all-star band USA For Africa, inspired by the UK effort Band Aid and organized by singer Harry Belafonte with the help of businessman Ken Kragen, record the Ethiopian benefit song "We Are the World", written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson. Artists who "checked their egos at the door" included Belafonte, Jackson and Richie, Ray Charles, Lindsay Buckingham, Dan Ackroyd, James Ingram, Kim Carnes, Sheila E., Jackie, LaToya, Marlon, Randy and Tito Jackson, Darryl Hall, John Oates, Bob Dylan, Al Jarreau, Cyndi Lauper, Kenny Loggins, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis and the News, Willie Nelson, Jeffrey Osbourne, Billy Joel, Waylon Jennings, Bette Midler, Steve Perry, Dionne Warwick, the Pointer Sisters, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Geldof. It was produced by Quincy Jones.