Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe (Feb. 18) Today's birthdays include artist/musician Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow, who was born in 1933 (age 70); Herman Santiago of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers in 1941 (age 62); Styx singer/keyboardist Dennis DeYoung in 1947 (age 56); Juice Newton and Randy Crawford, both in 1952 (age 51); drummer Robbie Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Little River Band drummer Derek Pellici, both in 1953 (age 50); and John Travolta in 1954 (age 49). Advertisement Today's musical milestones: In 1960, the Everly Brothers recorded "When Will I Be Loved" during the duo's last session for Cadence Records before joining the Warner Bros. label. In 1968, Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett left the band and checked into a psychiatric hospital. He was replaced by guitarist David Gilmore. In 1969, Bee Gee Maurice Gibb married pop star Lulu (real name: Marie Laurie) in England. His brother Robin served as best man. Advertisement In 1971, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band made its New York debut at Unganos. In 1980, Rolling Stone Bill Wyman told a London newspaper he planned to leave the band in 1982, after the group's 20th anniversary. He stayed on until the early '90s. In 1992, legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was hospitalized in Oakland, Calif., after collapsing following a performance at an area nightclub. He was treated for exhaustion and diabetes. In 1993, Emerson Lake and Palmer appeared on "The Tonight Show." It was the group's first performance on U.S. network television in 20 years. Also in 1993, rapper Marky Mark (Wahlberg) apologized for the racially motivated attacks he committed as a teenager. And in 1993, Israeli tourism officials invited Michael Jackson to soak in the Dead Sea to help his skin problems. (A week earlier, Jackson had told Oprah Winfrey and a national TV audience he suffered from a disease that caused a loss of skin pigmentation.) And in 1993, an off-Broadway tribute to Carole King -- "Tapestry: The Music of Carole King" -- opened in New York. Advertisement In 1994, the Englewood, N.J., hospital where Dizzy Gillespie had died a month earlier announced it would offer free medical care to out-of-work jazz artists with no medical insurance. In 1995, former Replacements guitarist Bob Stinson was found dead in a Minneapolis apartment. He was 35. Also in 1995, legendary producer Denny Cordell died of lymphoma. He was credited with discovering Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, T-Rex, Joe Cocker, and the Cranberries. In 1996, Sting ripped Michael Jackson in an interview with a London newspaper. (He called Jackson's "Earth Song" a "pile of crap" and accused the pop singer of behaving as if he were God.) In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in a fight over who wrote the 1956 Frankie Lymon and the Teen-agers' hit song "Why Do Fools Fall In Love." The justices left in place a federal appeals court ruling that overturned a federal jury verdict that group members Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago had written the tune. The copyright lists Lymon and another man as composers. In 1999, Lauryn Hill began her first-ever solo tour in Detroit. Today's musical quiz: Advertisement What does Yoko Ono's name mean in Japanese? Answer: "Ocean child."
