February 3

 

Today the music died in 1959 when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens all died in a plane crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa...

 

Remembering Johnny 'guitar' Watson, born today in 1935...

 

Dave Davies (The Kinks) was born today in 1947...

 

Melanie Safka would have been 76 today...

 

Today in 1960, Frank Sinatra launched Reprise Records, the first label owned exclusively by artists...

 

On this day in 1969, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr hired Allen Klein to manage The Beatles over the objections of Paul McCartney marking the beginning of the end...

 

“Sweet Baby James” was released today in 1970