This Day In Rock N' Roll History : February 20

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Billed as 'The Big Gold Record Stars' Bill Haley and his Comets, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmie Rodgers all appeared on the first date of a six day tour of Florida.
16 year old Jimi Hendrix made his stage debut when he played a show at a synagogue in Seattle
The Beatles drove through the night from Liverpool to London to appear on the live lunchtime BBC radio program "Parade of the Pops." Performing 'Love Me Do' and 'Please Please Me', the appearance lasted just over 4 minutes. They then drove another 180 mile trip back north for their performance that night
The single 'Instant Karma!' by The Plastic Ono Band was released in the US. John Lennon had written, recorded and mixed the track all in one day on the 27th January 1970.
All four members of Kiss had their footprints implanted on the pavement outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Winners at this years Grammy Awards included Stevie Wonder for Best album with 'Songs In The Key Of Life', and Best Vocal performance for 'I Wish.' Best album went to Chicago and Best new artist went to the Starland Vocal Band.
Bob Dylan was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 33rd annual Grammy' Awards.
100 people died after pyrotechnics ignited a club during a gig by Great White in Rhode Island. Great White guitarist Ty Longley was also killed in the accident..
Brian Wilson kicked off an 11-date UK tour at London's Royal Festival Hall.
A 1976 Rolling Stones album bought for £2 out of a trunk of a car sold for £4,000 at an auction. The 'Black and Blue' LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison as well as members of the Rolling Stones.
David Cassidy told People magazine that he was suffering from dementia two days after giving what appeared to be a drunken performance at a concert in California. He told the magazine that both his grandfather and mother (actress Evelyn Ward) had the disease in later life. Cassidy died from liver and kidney failure on 21 November 2017 age 67.
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