Entertainment History
On Feb. 11, 1963, The Beatles recorded all of the tracks for their
first album to be released in the U.K., "Please Please Me. John Lennon
had a bad cold and belted out "Twist and Shout" in one take. In 1964,
The Beatles performed their first American concert, at the Coliseum in
Washington. In the following days, the band performed in New York and
in Florida, but the concerts were not considered part of an official
tour. In 1965, Ringo Starr married Maureen Cox in London. They divorced
in 1975. In 1970, the Ringo Starr-Peter Sellers film "The Magic
Christian" premiered in New York. The film's soundtrack album included
the Badfinger song "Come and Get It," which was written by Paul
McCartney. In 1972, David Bowie first performed as "Ziggy Stardust," at
a show in Tollworth, England. In 1983, The Rolling Stones tour
documentary "Let's Spend The Night Together" opened in the U.S. and
Canada. In 1986, Boy George guest-starred on an episode of "The A-Team"
as a singer mistakenly booked into a country dance hall. In 1987, in
the wake of Liberace's death from AIDS, the London Daily Mirror asked
if it could have back the $53,000 U.S. libel award the entertainer won
from the paper more than 30 years earlier. The tabloid had called
Liberace a "fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love"
in 1956. In 2012, Whitney Houston was found dead in a bathtub in a Los
Angeles hotel. She was 48. Today's Birthdays: Actor Conrad Janis ("Mork
and Mindy") is 89. Actor Burt Reynolds is 81. Actress Tina Louise
("Gilligan's Island") is 79. Actor Sonny Landham ("48 Hours,"
'Predator") is 76. Musician Sergio Mendes (MEN'-dez) is 76. Actor
Philip Anglim ("The Thorn Birds") is 65. Actress Catherine Hickland
("One Life To Live") is 61. Drummer David Uosikkinen (aw-SIK'-ken-ihn)
of The Hooters is 61. Actress Carey Lowell ("Law and Order") is 56.
Singer Sheryl Crow is 55. Actress Jennifer Aniston is 48. Singer
D'Angelo is 43. Actor Brice Beckham ("Mr. Belvedere") is 41. Vocalist
Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and of Fort Minor is 40. Singer-actress
Brandy ("Moesha") is 38. Country musician Jon Jones (The Eli Young
Band) is 37. Actor Matthew Lawrence ("Boy Meets World") is 37. Singer
Kelly Rowland (Destiny's Child) is 36. Actress Natalie Dormer ("Game of
Thrones") is 35. Singer Aubrey O'Day (Danity Kane) is 33. Actress
Q'orianka (kohr-ee-AHN'-kuh) Kilcher ("The New World") is 27. Actor
Taylor Lautner is 25.
