On 1/1/53 country-music legend Hank Williams died at age 29 of an alcohol-induced heart attack while being driven to a gig in a hired Cadillac, though some researchers believe he was already dead when hotel employees put him in the car the night before. Williams's “I'll Never Get out of This World Alive” became the No. 1 country song that week. … The British press roundly criticized the Rolling Stones after the band appeared on the popular TV show Sunday Night at the London Palladium on 1/22/66. The group refused to join the long-standing tradition of standing on the revolving stage at the show's conclusion because doing so might upset their antiestablishment image. … On 1/3/69 a New Jersey court declared the cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Two Virgins LP to be “pornographic.” Police seized 30,000 copies of the LP at a New Jersey airport. The cover, which showed the two posing naked, was replaced by a brown paper wrapper sealed with a white dot. … Jefferson Airplane vocalist Grace Slick gave birth to a baby girl on 1/25/71 in a San Francisco hospital. She and Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner, the child's father, had planned on naming her god, with a small g, but eventually chose China instead. … On 1/23/78 original Chicago guitarist and vocalist Terry Kath fatally shot himself in the head while playing with a gun at a party. The 32-year-old musician didn't realize that the gun was loaded. … Ozzy Osbourne got a big surprise on 1/20/82 after a fan at a concert in Des Moines threw what appeared to be a plastic bat onto the stage. Osbourne bit the bat's head off before realizing that it was real and, as a result, was forced to undergo a series of rabies shots. … The first MTV Unplugged debuted on 1/22/90. The program featured Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, of the British band Squeeze, who performed three of their own songs and later joined other performers and host Jules Shear in a rendition of the Monkees' “I'm a Believer.” Difford and Tilbrook apparently failed to grasp the idea of the show at first, as they showed up with electric guitars. … Former child star Donny Osmond slugged it out with Danny Bonaduce of Partridge Family fame in a three-round charity boxing match held at Chicago's China Club on 1/17/94. Osmond taunted Bonaduce at a gym they were working out in, and a mutual friend set up the match. The bout, which featured lots of questionable tactics, ended in a split decision with Bonaduce as the winner, though Osmond landed more blows. … On 1/18/94 country singer Reba McEntire tried to do her part for gun control by offering to swap tickets to her shows for weapons turned in. In response, a pawnshop in Tulsa offered a 10 percent discount on guns to anyone who turned in one of McEntire's CDs or concert tickets. … Guitar prodigy and founding member of Spirit Randy California drowned on 1/2/97 when he was gripped by an undertow while swimming in the waters off Molokai, Hawaii. Before he died, the 45-year-old musician was able to rescue his 12-year-old son, Quinn.