This Day in Rock & Roll History for February 1

Don Everly is born. (1937)

The Rock and Roll Ice Revue, billed "the hottest production ever staged on ice," opens at the Roxy Theater in New York City. (1956)

Indiana Governor declares the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen (currently #6 on the Hot 100) pornographic. He asks the Indiana Broadcasters Association to ban the record. Although stations claim it's impossible to accurately figure out the lyrics from "the unintelligible rendition as performed by the Kingsmen," Governor Welsh claims his "ears tingle" when he heard the song. (1964)

Nine months after marrying Elvis Presley, Priscilla Beauleiu Presley gives birth to Elvis' only child and sole heir, Lisa Marie, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. (1968)

Universal International Studios offers the Doors $500,000 to star in a feature film. The band also announces plans for an ABC-TV special, a "humor book" by the whole group and a book of lyrics and poetry by Jim Morrison. Only the last project ever happens. (1968)

Less than a year after they "retired," Steppenwolf resurrect themselves, with leader John Kay returning although he promises to continue recording as a solo artist. (1973)

Led Zeppelin's latest tour of North America must, at the last moment, be postponed indefinitely because of vocalist Robert Plant's trouble with tonsillitis. The tour (which will be the group's last visit to North America, until the '95 Page & Plant show), will finally get under way in late June. (1977)

Bob Dylan's film "Renaldo and Clara," a documentary of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour mixed with surrealistic fantasy sequences, premieres in Los Angeles. (1978)

The City of Memphis declares this day Bar-Kays Day in honor of the band that began as Otis Redding's backing band, survived the plane crash that took the lives of Redding and three members of the group. Then went on to make hits like "Too Hot to Stop" and "Soul Finger." (1982)

Glenn Frey makes his acting debut on a Miami Vice episode that's based on his song, "Smuggler's Blues." (1985)

The Cars break up. (1988)

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