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January, 12

  • 2000 A cloud of troubled times hanging over the Smashing Pumpkins grows darker when manager Sharon Osbourne severs all ties with the Chicago rock quartet. In a statement, Osbourne says, “It was with great pride and enthusiasm that I took on management of the Pumpkins back in October, but unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons – [Pumpkins frontman] Billy Corgan was making me sick!”
  • 1999 Elton John files suit in London against Price Waterhouse Coopers, the accountancy firm, and Andrew Haydon, a former managing director of John Reid Enterprises, his former management company, over an alleged shortfall of 20 million pounds from his business empire.
  • 1998 Billy Joel sells out a record-setting eighth and ninth shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. The eighth show goes clean in about an hour, precipitating the addition of the ninth show.
  • 1995 The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, the late Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Al Green, Neil Young, the Orioles and the late Frank Zappa are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  • 1992 A child is born to Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and model Jerry Hall. Daughter Georgia May Ayeesha is the third child for the couple and the fifth for Jagger.
  • 1991 Country music singer Johnny Paycheck is released from an Ohio prison after serving two years of a seven year sentence for a barroom shooting. Before leaving office, Gov. Richard Celeste commutes the singer’s sentence.
  • 1984 Motley Crue opens its first U.S. tour at Madison Square Garden, New York.
  • 1974 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “The Joker,” Steve Miller Band.
  • 1963 Bob Dylan is given the part of a folk singer on a BBC radio play, “The Madhouse on Castle Street.”
  • 1957 Elvis Presley records “All Shook Up” at a Hollywood studio.
  • 1953 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes,” Perry Como.
  • 1940 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit, “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way),” Shep Fields Orchestra.