This Day in Rock & Roll History for January 30

Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane is born. (1942)

Steve Marriott, guitarist and vocalist with Humble Pie & Small Faces, is born. (1947)

Jerry Lee Lewis plays piano for rockabilly singer Billy Lee Riley's Sun Studio session. They record "Red Hot," which will become Riley's most successful record. (1956)

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller announce they're in the process of forming their own independent production company to make records for other companies. Among the major companies that contract Lieber and Stoller are Atlantic and RCA Victor. (1961)

The Beatles make their last-ever public appearance as a group, performing on the roof of Apple Studios at 3 Saville Row, London. The show, filmed for the subsequent movie "Let It Be," is stopped when police arrive after neighbors complain about the noise. (1969)

Janis Joplin's "Me And Bobby McGee" is released. (1971)

Kiss play their first show, at the Coventary Club in Queens. The group's makeup at this early stage is slightly different from the look audiences eventually will know them for. Paul Stanley recalls that it's more of a "New York Dolls look." (1973)

Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins dies in Texas of cancer. He was a very influential blues guitarist. (1982)

Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go for That" hits Number One on the pop chart and the R&B chart simultaneously, one week after hitting Number One on the disco chart. It is the fourth single by a white act to reach the top of the R&B chart since 1965. (1982)

Bob Dylan is named commander in France's Order of Arts and Letters by the country's Culture Ministry. (1990)

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