February 1998 in Music History

Events in Music

Feb 1 "Street Corner Symphony" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances
Feb 12 "Freak" opens at Cort Theater NYC

Feb 18 Andrea Bocelli makes his operatic debut as Rodolfo in "La bohème" at the Teatro Comunale in Cagliari

Feb 24 Elton John is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London

Feb 25 40th Grammy Awards: "Sunny Came Home" best song, Paula Cole best new artist

Feb 25 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges

Feb 27 12th Soul Train Music Awards: Puff Daddy, Whitney Houston win

Feb 11 American R&B singer-songwriter ("Location"; "Better"; "Young Dumb & Broke"), born in Fort Stewart, Georgia

Feb 22 Singer-songwriter Tori Amos (34) weds British sound engineer Mark Hawley (34) in West Wycombe, England

Feb 28 "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (31) divorces Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee (35) after 3 years of marriage

Feb 2 Roger L. Stevens, American real estate magnate, Broadway theater producer (West Side Story) and fundraiser (John F. Kennedy Center), dies at 87 [1]
Feb 5 Timothy "Tim" Kelly, American guitarist (Slaughter), dies in a car accident at 35
Feb 6 Carl Wilson, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Beach Boys), dies of lung cancer at 51
Feb 6 Falco [Johann Hoelzel], Austrian singer (Rock Me Amadeus), dies at 40
Feb 14 Claude Prey, French composer, dies at 72
Feb 15 Arthur Cohn, American composer and writer on music, dies at 87
Feb 17 Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (People, Mambo Italiano), commits suicide at 72
Feb 19 (Louis) "Grandpa" Jones, American country music singer and banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
Feb 20 Martindale Sidwell, English organist and conductor, dies at 82
Feb 24 Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist (Take my wife ... please), dies at 91
Feb 25 Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer.
Feb 25 Rockin' Sidney [Simien], American zydeco and R&B singer-songwriter, accordionist, guitarist, organist, and harmonica player ("My Toot-Toot"; "You Ain't Nothing But Fine"), dies of throat cancer at 59