Music History for
February 20




1745 - Composer Johann Peter Saloman was born.

1770 - Composer Ferdinando Carulli was born.

1791 - Composer Carl Czerny was born.

1802 - Composer Charles-Auguste de Beriot was born.

1940 - Larry Clinton and his orchestra recorded "Limehouse Blues".

1949 - Ricky Nelson joined the cast of his parents' radio show.

1964 - The Beach Boys recorded "Don't Worry Baby".

1969 - "Goodbye Cream" opened in Baltimore. The film was of Cream's November 26, 1968 farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

1969 - The X-rated film "Candy" premiered. It was Ringo Starr's first non-musical role in a film.

1970 - John Lennon's "Instant Karma" was released in the U.S.

1974 - Cher filed for separation from husband Sonny Bono. She filed for divorce not long afterwards. They had been married for 10 years.

1976 - KISS placed their footprints on the sidewalk outside the Grauman Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1982 - Singer Pat Benatar married musician-producer Neil Geraldo in Hawaii. It was Benatar's second marriage.

1992 - Paula Abdul and actor Emilio Estevez announced their engagement.

1996 - Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg and a bodyguard were found not guilty of first-degree murder. The jury was deadlocked on voluntary manslaughter charges resulting in a mistrial.

1997 - Ben and Jerry's introduced a their ice cream Phish Food. It was named after the rock group Phish.

1998 - The first of two concerts honoring the late Nicolette Larson was held.

2000 - ABC-TV aired the "Little Richard" TV movie.

2002 - In Los Angeles, CA, a jury awarded a woman $40,000 for wrongful termination from James Brown's company in 1999. The woman had also claimed that she had been sexually harassed.

2003 - In West Warwick, RI, 99 people were killed when fire destroyed the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for Great White, was one of the victims in the fire.