Rocking50s Blog

Monday January 25
Etta James ("At Last") is 72
Ray Peterson ("Corrina Corrina") dies of cancer, 2005
Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick and Paul Kantner become the parents of a baby girl they name "god" (later they change it to "China"), 1971
Billy Joel totals his Mercedes on a Long Island, New York highway (but receives only facial cuts), 2003
Neil Diamond sings the national anthem at Superbowl XXI, 1987
Clarence Carter and Eddie Floyd are inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, 2003
Yoko Ono donates $375,000 to Liverpool's Strawberry Fields retirement home, the inspiration for her late husband, John Lennon's, song, 1984
Billy Joel donates $500,000 to "Homes For Our Troops", an organization that aids disabled veterans, 2008
ynn Anderson is arrested for shoplifting (and punching a police officer during the arrest) in Taos, New Mexico, 2005
Cilla Black makes her debut singing at Liverpool's Cavern Club (where she was once the hat check girl), 1963
Paul McCartney is released after nine days in a Tokyo jail for marijuana possession, 1980 CBS-TV's "48 Hours" profiles Paul McCartney, 1990
Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers appears on NBC-TV's "Cheers", 1990
Sam Cooke records "Chain Gang", 1960

Monday January 25
Etta James ("At Last") is 72
Ray Peterson ("Corrina Corrina") dies of cancer, 2005
Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick and Paul Kantner become the parents of a baby girl they name "god" (later they change it to "China"), 1971
Billy Joel totals his Mercedes on a Long Island, New York highway (but receives only facial cuts), 2003
Neil Diamond sings the national anthem at Superbowl XXI, 1987
Clarence Carter and Eddie Floyd are inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, 2003
Yoko Ono donates $375,000 to Liverpool's Strawberry Fields retirement home, the inspiration for her late husband, John Lennon's, song, 1984
Billy Joel donates $500,000 to "Homes For Our Troops", an organization that aids disabled veterans, 2008
ynn Anderson is arrested for shoplifting (and punching a police officer during the arrest) in Taos, New Mexico, 2005
Cilla Black makes her debut singing at Liverpool's Cavern Club (where she was once the hat check girl), 1963
Paul McCartney is released after nine days in a Tokyo jail for marijuana possession, 1980 CBS-TV's "48 Hours" profiles Paul McCartney, 1990
Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers appears on NBC-TV's "Cheers", 1990
Sam Cooke records "Chain Gang", 1960