January 16

Celebrating a birthday today is Helen Folasade Adu (Sade) born in 1959

 

Legendary producer Phil Spector died on this day in 2021 while serving a 19 year- life sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson

 

On this day in 1992, Eric Clapton recorded his unplugged session for MTV

 

Today in 1980, Paul McCartney was jailed for nine days in Tokyo for marijuana possession

 

Ross Bagdasarian otherwise known as Dave Seville the man behind the chipmunks died today in 1972

 

Country music star Ronnie Milsap was born on this day in 1943

 

On this day in 1964, famed music club The Whiskey-a-Go-Go opened in West Hollywood

 

Today in 1938, Benny Goodman plays the first ever jazz concert at the famed Carnegie Hall in New York