MID - Music Information Database

JANUARY 25
1957	RCA Records releases its first Elvis Presley recording in the US, the single Heartbreak Hotel, backed by I Was The One on the B-side.
1958	Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock becomes the first single ever to enter the UK chart at number one, selling half a million copies in its first week.

1963	After working as a cloakroom attendant and occasionally guesting with groups (notably Kingsize Taylor & the Dominoes, Faron’s Flamingos, the Big Three (at the Zodiac Club) and Rory Storm & the Hurricanes), usually billed as “Swinging Cilla,” 19-year old singer Cilla Black makes her Liverpool’s Cavern club debut, with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes.
1964	Songwriter/producer Phil Spector appears on the UK BBC-TV pop show "Juke Box Jury" alongside Adam Faith and Jean Metcalfe.
1969	With his latest recording complete, Elvis Presley flies to Aspen, Colorado, with his wife and entourage, for a skiing vacation.

1970	John Lennon and Yoko Ono shave their heads, proclaiming 1970 “Year One For Peace.”
1971	Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick gives birth to a daughter, modestly named God, at a San Francisco hospital, subsequently reducing the child’s name to China. The father is fellow group member Paul Kantner.
1973	Always fearful of flying, David Bowie embarks on his 100-day world tour aboard the New York-bound QE2.
1975	Following tonight's sell-out gig at Madison Square Garden, New York, Led Zeppelin's current US tour is put on hold while lead vocalist Robert Plant recovers from the flu.
1976	Bob Dylan is joined onstage by Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Carlos Santana, Stephen Stills and Ringo Starr at the singer’s “Night Of The Hurricane II” benefit concert for convicted murderer, boxer Ruben “Hurricane” Carter, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1978	Having recorded a demo of songs as Warsaw the previous July, Joy Division makes it live debut at Pips in Manchester.

1980	Paul McCartney is released from jail in Tokyo, Japan, after spending ten days in jail, following his arrest for possession of 219 grams of marijuana on his arrival at Narita International Airport.
1981	Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson present a specially-written single Görel to manager Stig Anderson on his 50th birthday.
1982	Stevie Wonder is presented with the Special Award of Merit and the Favorite Male Artist, Soul/R&B trophy, at the ninth annual American Music Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Other winners include Diana Ross (Favorite Single, Pop/Rock and Favorite Single, Soul/R&B), Kenny Rogers (Favorite Album, Country, Favorite Album, Pop/Rock, and Favorite Male Artist, Pop/Rock), Willie Nelson (Favorite Male Artist, Country, and Favorite Single) and Lionel Richie (Favorite Single, Pop/Rock, and Favorite Single, Soul/R&B).
1983	The Allman Brothers Band’s former bassist Lamar Williams, a Vietnam veteran, succumbs to Agent Orange-related cancer in Los Angeles.
1986	The “Red Wedge” tour, in support of Britain’s Labour Party, featuring the Style Council, Billy Bragg, the Communards and others, opens at the Apollo Theatre in Manchester.
1987	Neil Diamond sings the national anthem before “Super Bowl XXI”, between the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
1988	Randy Travis collects four trophies (Favorite Male Artist, Country, Favorite Single, Country, Favorite Video, Country, and Favorite Album, Country), at the 15th annual American Music Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Other winners include Luther Vandross, Reba McEntire, Whitney Houston, Paul Simon and siblings Janet and Michael Jackson.
1989	Bobby Brown is arrested at the Municipal Auditorium in Columbus, Georgia, for an overtly sexually suggestive performance. He will be fined $652 under the Anti-Lewdness Ordinance for giving a "sexually explicit performance harmful to minors on city property, whether the performers are clothed or not".

1990	“48 Hours”, following Paul McCartney at his Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, Illinois gig, airs on CBS-TV.
1991	George Michael makes his first live appearance in more than two years at the “Rock In Rio II” festival at the Maracana soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992	The first ever "The Big Day Out" rock festival takes place at the Royal Sydney Showgrounds in Sydney, Australia, featuring 21 bands including Nirvana, Violent Femmes and Henry Rollins. 10,000 fans attend consuming 55,000 cans of beer.
1993	Huey Lewis, John Fogerty, Jerry Garcia, Eddie Money, Carlos Santana, Joan Baez, Stephen Stills and Grace Slick take part in a tribute concert to Bill Graham, following the 20th annual American Music Awards, at which the late promoter is honored with the Award of Merit.
1994	Michael Jackson settles a civil suit with a multi-million dollar payment to the 14-year old boy who was accusing him of molestation, though Jackson's lawyer Johnnie Cochran insists that the decision to head off a court case was “in no way an admission of guilt.”
1995	Nick Lowe begins a month-long US tour with the Impossible Birds (Geraint Watkins (keyboards), Paul Riley (bass) and Robert Trehern (drums)) at Toad’s Place in New Haven, CT. (During the tour, Lowe will admit that his songwriting royalties from Curtis Stigers’ version of (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding, included on The Bodyguard soundtrack, has, after 30 years in the industry, made him a millionaire.)
1996	Jonathan Larson dies of an aortic aneurysm in his New York city apartment at age 35 following the final dress rehearsal of the stage show "Rent" - of which he is the composer. The musical, due to open the following day at the New York Theatre Workshop, will win three Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize.
1997	The Spice Girls tie the record with Alanis Morissette for the highest charting US single by a debut act as Wannabe bows at #11.
1998	The Spice Girls’ Posh Spice and Manchester United and England soccer star David Beckham announce their engagement while relaxing at the Rookery Hall Hotel near Chester, Cheshire. (They had met following a game between United and Sheffield Wednesday.)
1999	Jewel, Paula Cole, Judy Collins, Phoebe Snow, Janis Ian, and Odetta take part in the “The Women In Music” benefit concert for the Turner/Fonda Project at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York.

2000	Ex-Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'Arcy Wretzy is arrested for possession of a controlled substance (reported to be rock cocaine) around 3 a.m. at 1602 West Lake Street in Chicago.
2001	Bobby Brown takes the witness stand in the federal murder trial of John Tibbs in Boston. Brown had been a witness to the September 28, 1995 drive-by shooting of Steven Sealy - his sister’s fiancee - outside the Biarritz Lounge nightclub in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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