February 18
Art's most controversial muse Yoko Ono celebrates her 93rd birthday today, the avant-garde artist whose relationship with John Lennon made her both the most blamed woman in rock for "breaking up the Beatles" and a pioneering performance artist in her own right… Styx's theatrical voice Dennis DeYoung turns 79 today, the keyboardist-vocalist whose "Come Sail Away" and concept album ambitions made the Chicago band arena rock stars before his 1999 departure ended his partnership with Tommy Shaw and James Young… Pop met Bee Gees harmony today in 1969 when Scottish singer Lulu married Maurice Gibb, the union between the "To Sir with Love" vocalist and the youngest Gibb twin lasting four years before divorce ended one of the 1960s' most photogenic musical marriages… Singer-songwriter stability finally arrived today in 2001 when James Taylor married third wife Kim Smedvig at a Boston ceremony, the Fire and Rain troubadour finding last...
