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January 7

1899   Al Bowlly is born.
1930   Jack Greene (The Jolly Giant in Ernest Tubb's band) is born.
1941   Jim West of the Innocents is born.
1942   Danny Williams is born.
1943   Leona Williams of the Helton Family Band, Loretta Lynn's band, is born.
1944   Mike McGear (Paul McCartney's brother) of the Scaffold born.
1945   Dave Cousins of seminal pop band the Strawbs, is born.
1946   Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone publisher born.

Andrew Brown of the Fortunes is born.

1946   Paul Revere of Seattle's own colonial fops Paul Revere and the Raiders is born. (year may be 1942?)
1948   Kenny Loggins of Loggins and Messina born in Everett, Washington.
1949   Stranglers' vocalist Hugh Cornwell is born.
1954   The blues standard "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" recorded at Chess Records studio in Chicago by Muddy Waters.
1958   The 'Flying V" is patented by Gibson Guitars. Jimi Hendrix owned one, and his was later played by Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen. Albert King made it his trademark, while in the 80s Bob Mould (HŸsker DŸ) sported one.

The nationally shown UK TV teen show, The 6.5 Special, tries taking the show on the road, with first stop (for religious reasons?), Salisbury.

1959   Kathy Valentine of the Go-Gos is born.
1960   Two Shadows, Hank Marvin and Jet Harris, are hospitalized after a car crash, but OK and able to continue copying Ventures tunes within the week.
1963   Garry US Bonds sues Chubby Checker for $100.000 claiming that his song, "Quarter To Three", was too much the basis for Chubby's, "Dancin' Party". The boys settled out of court.
1964   Influential R&B harmonica player Cyril Davis dies of Leukemia At Age 32. Along with Alexis Korner he helped form Blues Incorporated, the UK Band which featured Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Eric Burton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and others! Cyril quit BI to form the "All-Stars" featuring Long John Baldry. When Cyril died Baldry changed band name to the "Hoochie Coochi Men" and introduced new lead singer, Rod Stewart.
1968   Rather than deal with "Four More Years", San Francisco's KMPX-FM invites listeners to make their vote count, their mock election results : President Bob Dylan, VP Paul Butterfield, UN Ambassador George Harrison and some collective jobs going to the Jefferson Airplane as Secretary of Transportation and the Grateful Dead filling in for our soon to be indicted Attorney General.
1970   In New York State, neighbors of Max Yasgur sue him for $35,000 in property damage caused by folks who attended last August's Woodstock Festival held on his land.
1971 Led Zeppelin records, "Stairway to Heaven."
1973   In New Zealand, for one time only, Sandy Denny performs again with Fairport Convention.
1974   In New York City Sarah Martin, the second child of singer/songwriters James Taylor and Carly Simon, born.
1976   Record Co. exec Kenneth Moss is sentenced to four months' imprisonment and four years probation for involuntary manslaughter for supplying Average White Band drummer Robbie McIntosh with heroin. In September of '74, McIntosh, thinking he was snorting coke, died from the drug.
1979   Adding a religious twist to the ennui, The Doomed are now the Damned, and play their first live gig at the Greyhound in Croydon since getting back together in '78.
1980   Stranglers singer Hugh Cornwell is given two months in jail and fined £330 for possession of heroin and cocaine. Turns experience into book, "Inside Information".

Carl White, of the 50's group the Rivingtons, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 48. His group was best known for the song "Papa Oom Mow Mow."

1983   "An evening with Rolling Stone Ron Wood" is held at Town Hall in NYC. Ron chats, plays and takes all attending to the Magique Disco after.
1989   Former Velvet Underground members John Cale and Lou Reed first perform their musical suite tribute to Andy Warhol "Drella" in Brooklyn Heights, NY.