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

Music History

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

  • Feb 22 "King & I" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances

Knighthood

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

Music History

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

  • Feb 28 "View From the Bridge" closes at Criterion Theater NYC

Birthdays in Music

Khalid [Donnel Robinson] (25 years old)

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

Weddings in Music

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

Divorces in Music

Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee

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

Deaths in Music

  • 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