1951: Ioan Luchian Mihalea was born, light music performer, founder and conductor of the Song and Mini Song groups, assassinated in 1993

1973: American Charlie Rich climbed to the top of the Billboard chart with the ballad The Most Beautiful Girl

1979: Pink Floyd began to dominate, for 5 weeks, the UK sales chart with Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2), the band’s only No. 1 from across the Atlantic

1984: Band Aid and Do They Know It’s Christmas? debuted at number one in the UK, with the charity track selling over 3.5 million copies, a feat that has never been achieved before

2002: The Blue Band and veteran Elton John captivate British audiences with a reinterpretation of the 1976 hit Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

1921 – Born Alan Freed, American radio DJ who gave the genre ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ its name. Died January 20, 1965. Freed deserves to be remembered for his adventurous – even reckless – efforts on behalf of the music he loved His first non-segregated dance nights often defied local customs, and his preferences for black artists were not universally appreciated.

1944 – The American musician, arranger and composer Glenn Miller dies, the plane he was on disappears due to unfavorable weather conditions, in a flight over the English Channel. Glenn Miller was traveling to sing for American troops in France during World War II. Miller was a best-selling artist between 1939 and 1943, leading one of the world’s greatest bands, the Glenn Miller Orchestra. In just four years, Glenn Miller had 23 No. 1 songs.

1955 – Paul Simonon, bassist of The Clash, was born.

1977 – The Who play a secret concert for fan club members only at London’s SheppertonStudios. The concert will be recorded and later used in the movie “The Kids Are Allright”.

1977 – The Sex Pistols are denied entry into the United States due to convictions for drug possession and use.

1979 – Pink Floyd hit #1 in the UK with “Another Brick In The Wall Part II”. The song will remain there for 5 weeks and will receive a nomination at the Grammy Awards, in the “Best Performance by a RockDuo or Group” category. When they first recorded this song, it contained a stanza and a chorus, lasting 1:20. Producer Bob Ezrin wanted to make it longer, but the band refused. While they were gone, Ezrin extended the track by introducing the children’s choir on the second verse, adding some drums and copying the first chorus at the end. He played it for Waters, who liked what he heard.

1984 – ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, the BandAid single, went to number one in the UK chart and stayed there for five weeks. Band Aid was a band created by former Boomtown Rats frontman BobGeldof who was moved by a news story about famine in Ethiopia. Geldof had the idea to raise funds with a charity single, recorded with the cream of the pop-rock world. Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Paul Young, Culture Club, George Michael, Sting, Bono, Phil Collins, Paul Weller, Francis Rossi and Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt are among the artists who have recorded the track.

2001 – The Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh receives an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Kent State University in Ohio, United States.

2003 – Courtney Love is sentenced by a court to 18 months in a drug rehab clinic after admitting to drug use. Love was arrested in October after allegedly trying to break into the home of former manager and boyfriend Jim Barber. Authorities said she tested positive for cocaine and other opiates.