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January 9

1889   Gracie Fields is born.
1913   Richard Nixon born. Sandwiched between Mao and the Khamer Rouge, Nixon (Macnamara and Kissinger), through the bombing of Laos and Cambodia, is a contender for one of the greatest mass murderer of the late 20th c.
1928   Domenico Modugno is born.
1940   Jimmy Boyd is born.
1941   Joan Baez born.
1943   Roy Head is born.
1944   Scott Walker (Scott Engel) is born.
1948   Tim Hart of British folk troupe Steeleye Span is born.

William Cowsill of the Cowsills is born.

1950   David Johanson and Buster Poindexter are born. (NY Dolls)
1951   Country pop star Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Webb) is born.
1960   In the UK Emile Ford and the Checkmates, group of Bahamian immigrants, becomes the first homeland black act to top the British charts when "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?," hits Number One.
1971   Elvis Presley receives US Jaycees award as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Men In America".
1973   Lou Reed marries cocktail waitress, Betty, in NYC.

Mick Jagger is denied a visa to Japan due to a previous drug bust (1969).

1976   In the UK Polygram Records sign Graham Parker & the Rumour. Pub rock refugees all, Graham last paying job was as a gas station attendant in Camberly.
1977   In Halifax, Nova Scotia, singer Emmylou Harris marries her manager, Brian Ahern.
1979   At "A Gift of Song", a benefit concert for UNICEF at the UN in New York City, many artists donate today's performed version of a song to the Children's organization to use any way they wish. Artists include the Bee Gees, Linda Ronstadt, Abba, Rita Coolidge, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson and Olivia Newton-John. Eventually they raise over a half million dollars
1981   Specials bandmates Jerry Dammers and Terry Hall are fined £400 for inciting violence at an 1980 concert in Cambridge, UK.
1991   Calling her the 'bald-headed banshee of MTV', Mr. Blackwell (a real piece of work himself) places Irish singer Sinead O'Connor on his "worst dressed list".