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 is 75 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.