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January 3

1917   Country artist Leon McAuliffe (Bob Wills and the Light Crust Doughboys, then Bob's Texas Playboys) born in Houston, TX. Leon was one of the earliest country performers to use the peddle steel guitar and is the co-author of "San Antonio Rose".
1918   Maxine Andrews of the Andrews Sisters is born.
1926   George Martin, Beatles producer born in London.
1941   Van Dyke Parks born.
1943   Michael Zager of proto-metal Ten Wheel Drive is born.
1945   Stephen Stills Born in Dallas, TX. Member of CSNY, Buffalo Springfield, and Manassas.

Philip Goodhand Tait born.

1946   John Paul Jones (John Baldwin), Led Zepplinite, born in Kent, UK.
1959   The BBC TV premiers its latest teenpop product, Dig This, in the UK.
1964   First film clip of the Beatles performing in Bournemouth England, presented on US TV on the Jack Paar Show.

Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub born.

1966   First "Acid Test" held at Filmore West.
1969   New Jersey police confiscate a shipment of 30,000 copies of John & Yoko's "Pornographic" Two Virgins Lp at the Newark Airport. When a record shop displays the cover in the window, vice cops in Chicago close them down.
1970   Davy Jones quits The Monkees (BUT, They'll Be Back!).

Beatles record their last song together, "I Me Mine". (Later the title of George Harrison's bio)

1974   Bob Dylan opens historic 1974 tour at Chicago Stadium. Over 5 million mail-order ticket requests are received for the 650,000 seat concerts. He's back, the Band's with him again, and bits of the tour end up on the Before the Flood LP.
1980   R&B singer and pianist Amos Milburn, a major influence on Fats Domino, dies in Houston, Texas at the age of 52.
1982   Promoting his country standards LP, Almost Blue, Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick McManus) plays the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, drawing the youngest and loudest crowds to date.
1984   Island Records absorbes the Stiff label