History Highlight:

Today in 1989, Janet Jackson started a four-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814. Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and recorded at Flyte Tyme studios in Minneapolis, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 is only one of three albums to produce seven top-ten U.S. singles, the other two being Thriller by Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA.

Also, Today In:

1956 - Making his sensational second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Elvis Presley sang "Don't Be Cruel," "Love Me Tender," "Hound Dog" and "Love Me."

1957 - After a show at the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles, local police told Elvis Presley that he was not allowed to wiggle his hips onstage. The next night, the Los Angeles Vice Squad filmed his entire concert in order to study his performance.

1958 - Buddy Holly appeared on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, where he lip-synched "It's So Easy" and "Heartbeat." It was Holly's last major TV appearance.

1962 - The Beatles played at the Empire in Liverpool, their first gig at Liverpool's top theatre. Eight acts were on the bill including Little Richard, Craig Douglas, Jet Harris and Kenny Lynch & Sounds Incorporated.

1964 - The first of two nights billed as the "T.A.M.I. Show" took place at the Civic Auditorium, in Santa Monica, Calif., with Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Rolling Stones. The acronym "T.A.M.I." was used inconsistently in the show's publicity to mean both "Teenage Awards Music International" and "Teen Age Music International."

1967 - Diana Ross and the Supremes' Greatest Hits started a five-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart.

1977 - The notorious album by The Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, was released in America. It was the only studio album that the punk band ever put out. Fans and critics alike generally regard it as an important album in the history of rock music, citing the lasting influence it has had on subsequent punk-rock musicians, as well as other musical genres that were influenced by those punk-rock artists.

1978 - Nick Gilder went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Hot Child In The City."

1997 - R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry announced that he was departing the band after 17 years. Born in Duluth, Minn., Berry lives and works as a farmer in Georgia.

2007 - Country musician Porter Wagoner died in Nashville aged 80 from lung cancer. Wagoner helped launch the career of Dolly Parton and had his own TV show, which ran for 21 years until 1981.

Birthdays:

Charlie Daniels is 80.

Former Joy Division and current New Order drummer Stephen Morris is 59.

William Reid, guitarist with The Jesus and Mary Chain, is 58.

Frank Ocean is 29.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, Song Facts and Wikipedia.