February 1952 in Music History

Events in Music

Feb 2 B.B. King's “3 O’Clock Blues” hits #1 on the US Billboard's R&B hit parade to become his first national hit

Feb 4 Jerry Shirley, rock drummer (Humble Pie-Hot N Nasty, Eat It)
Feb 5 Daniel Balavoine, French singer -songwriter, born in Alençon, France (d. 1986)
Feb 7 Vasco Rossi, Italian rocker (Buoni o cattivi (Good or bad)), born in Zocca, Modena
Feb 8 Hans Van de Lubbe, Dutch bassist/singer (Dike)
Feb 12 Michael McDonald, rock keyboardist/vocals (Doobie Brothers), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Feb 13 Ed Gagliardi, US rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice), born in NYC, (d. 2014)
Feb 16 James Ingram, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician (Just Once), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2019)
Feb 21 Jean-Jacques Brunel, rock bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
Feb 23 Bradley "Brad" Whitford, American rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Janie's Got a Gun, Last Child), born in Winchester, Massachusetts
Feb 25 Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
Feb 27 Henk Westbroek, Dutch singer (Good Cause), born in Utrecht, Netherlands
Feb 27 Kevin Raleigh, American singer & keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Feb 28 Eddie Manion, saxophonist
Feb 28 William Finn, American composer