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1979 The Pointer Sisters' "Fire" is certified Gold.

1979 Fifteen months after announcing his retirement on stage, Elton John is back in action in Stockholm with the first show of his A Single Man tour.

1977 Mary MacGregor's "Torn Between Two Lovers" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

1976 Elvis Presley records "For the Heart," "Hurt," and "Danny Boy."

1972 Paul Simon releases "Mother and Child Reunion."

1971 Sara Evans is born in Boonesboro, Missouri.

1969 Bobby Brown is born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts.

1968 Spin Doctors frontman Chris Barron is born Christopher Barron Gross in Hawaii. He moves with his family to Australia at age 8, then to Princeton, New Jersey at 12, where he goes to high school with John Popper of Blues Traveler.

1967 Pop Stars And Drugs – Facts That Will Shock You screams the headline of the British newspaper News of the World. The article describes LSD parties thrown by The Moody Blues and attended by Pete Townshend, Ginger Baker and other prominent rock stars, and claims that Mick Jagger took Benzedrine tablets and lured girls back to his apartment to smoke hash. Jagger sues for libel, as it was actually Brian Jones with the Benzedrine. The paper responds by staking out Jagger and tipping police to drug activity at Keith Richards' Redlands estate. On February 12, police raid the place, arresting Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull on drug charges.

1967 Chilean composer Violeta Parra commits suicide at age 49.

1966 Petula Clark's "My Love" hits #1 on the Hot 100 for the first of two weeks.

1964 Bass player Duff McKagan is born Michael Andrew McKagan in Seattle, Washington. With the Seattle drug scene causing problems, he heads to Los Angeles, where he forms Guns N' Roses.

1961 Gene Pitney releases "Love My Life Away."

1957 Bill Haley arrives in London for his first British tour. He's the first American rock star to tour there and is met by about 4,000 fans at Heathrow Airport, mostly thanks to promoters who hyped his coming as "the second battle of Waterloo."

1955 The Fontane Sisters' "Hearts of Stone" hits #1 in America for the first of three weeks.

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