Today in Music History

Today in music history. – this is what really interesting stuff happened on today’s date in music history for January 29.

We have a complete database archive of music history that you can browse through (link below). It includes musicians births, deaths, important releases and remarkable events in musical history for rock, jazz, classical, pop and every other music genre. If you’d like this music history information for your own site, please contact us.

What happened today in music history:

1715: Composer Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born.

1784: Composer Ferdinand Ries was born.

1876: Composer Havergal Brian was born.

1962: Warner Bros. Records signed Peter, Paul & Mary.

1967: Jimi Hendrix and The Who gave a tribute concert to the Beatles late manager, Brian Epstein.

1972: Smokey Robinson left The Miracles.

1983: Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac married Kim Anderson at her Los Angeles home. They were divorced the following year.

1994: Mary Wilson, formerly with the Supremes, was injured when her jeep hit a freeway median and flipped over while driving outside of Los Angeles. Her 14-year old son was killed in the accident.

1998: Paul Simon’s musical “The Capeman” premiered in New York. The show opened three weeks behind schedule and to universally poor reviews.

2002: Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, went to the opening of an exhibition by fashion photographer Mario Testino at the National Portrait Gallery in London.