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Feb 22 1937
Fats Waller And His Rhythm record The Meanest Thing You Ever Did Was Kiss Me, in New York City, for Victor Records. (1937)

Feb 22 1956
Please, Please, Please, the US debut single by James Brown, is reviewed in US trade magazine Billboard with the words, ?a dynamic religious fervour runs through the pleading solo here. Brown and the Famous Flames group let off plenty of steam.' (1956)

Feb 22 1962
Bob Dylan visits his friend Izzy Young in Greenwich Village, New York City and sings him a recently composed song, Let Me Die In My Footsteps. (1962)

Feb 22 1965
On a privately chartered BOAC Boeing 707, The Beatles fly to the Bahamas and book in to the Balmoral Club, Cable Beach, to begin filming their second movie, Help! (1965)

Feb 22 1975
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel reach No1 in the UK with Make Me Smile. (1975)

Feb 22 1982
Tangerine Dream record the album Sohoman, live at the Regent Theatre, Sydney, Australia. (1982)

Feb 22 1994
Police are called to deal with a dispute between Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes of TLC and her boyfriend Andre Rison at his house. Having caught him with another woman, she set fire to the teddy bears he had given her, which caused him to strike her. (1994)

Feb 22 2007
Ian Wallace, former drummer of King Crimson, dies of cancer, aged 60 in Los Angeles, California. Wallace also played drums for Bob Dylan, Don Henley, Jackson Browne and many others. (2007)

Feb 22 2009
Mark E. Smith, leader of The Fall, is in hospital in Manchester, UK, having broken his hip for the second time. (2009)

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