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2006 The Rolling Stones perform during the halftime show at Super Bowl XL. However, TV producers use a "dump button" to edit salacious lyrics from their songs "Start Me Up" and "Rough Justice".

2006 The Notorious B.I.G. continues to top the U.K. chart with "Nasty Girl," while Arctic Monkeys' debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Not stays atop the album chart.


2006 Busta Rhymes' bodyguard is shot to death after gunfire is heard during a Brooklyn video shoot for his boss' new single "Touch It." Israel Ramirez was 29.





2004 Former Sex Pistol/PiL frontman John Lydon walks off the U.K. edition of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here.





2004 No Limit rapper Master P pleads guilty to failing to file a corporate income tax return for his company Bout It Incorporated in 1996.





2003 Ex-Doors drummer John Densmore sues former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger as well as newcomers Ian Astbury and Stewart Copeland, claiming the quartet were violating a copyright by using the name "The Doors." They later change their name to "The Doors 21st Century."




2001 Marc Anthony becomes a proud papa when his wife gives birth to Christian Anthony Minus, weighing in at seven pounds, one ounce.








1998 Slaughter guitarist Tim Kelly dies in an automobile accident in Arizona at age 34.







1976 Rudy Pompilli, sax player with Bill Haley & His Comets, dies.






1968 Spin Doctors vocalist Chris Barron is born in Hawaii.






1955 New York radio station WNEW announces the winners of its annual popularity poll: Perry Como, Patti Page, the Crew-Cuts, and Ray Anthony share the honors.






1950 Southern soul singer Ann Sexton, who recorded the excellent "I'm His Wife, You're Just a Friend," is born in Greenville, S.C.






1944 Al Kooper, the session guitarist turned organist for Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," is born in Brooklyn, N.Y. A seminal rock figure of the '60s, he went on to helm the classic Super Session disc with Steve Stills and Mike Bloomfield, and to form Blood, Sweat & Tears.




1942 Τhree  Dog Night singer Cory Wells is born in Buffalo, N.Y.






1941 Barrett Strong is born in Westpoint, Miss. As a singer, his hit "Money (That's What I Want)" provided songwriter Barry Gordy with the seed money to start Motown Records. As a songwriter, Strong wrote with Norman Whitfield such essential cuts as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," and "War."





1935 Alex Harvey, ringleader of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, is born in Glasgow, Scotland.




1929 Legendary session drummer Hal Blaine - who played on key records by the Beach Boys, the Ronettes, and the 5th Dimension as part of the fabled Wrecking Crew - is born Harold Simon Belsky in Holyoke, Mass.