History Highlight:

Today in 2004, CBS apologized for its Super Bowl broadcast after Janet Jackson was left exposed when Justin Timberlake ripped her top as the two performed a duet during the halftime show. CBS quickly cut away from the scene but was flooded with calls from angry viewers. Timberlake insisted it had been an accident, saying, "I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance of the Super Bowl."

Also, today in:

1962 - The Beatles played their first professional gig outside of Liverpool at The Oasis Club in Manchester. The first song in their set was their cover of "Hippy Hippy Shake".

1974 - Barbra Streisand started a four-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with the theme from the film The Way We Were. The single won an Oscar and a Grammy for Song of the Year.

1979 - Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City.

1985 - Foreigner started a two-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts with "I Want To Know What Love Is."

1989 - George Michael received undisclosed damages in excess of $170,000 from British tabloid The Sun over articles it printed that stated Michael had crashed a party given by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and that Michael was drunk and abusive while in attendance.

1993 - Willie Nelson agreed to pay $9 million of the $16.7 million he owed the Internal Revenue Service. His accountants, Price Waterhouse, had not been paying Nelson's taxes for years, and in addition to the unpaid taxes, Nelson's situation was exacerbated by weak investments he had made during the early 1980s.

2014 - Electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy sent the U.S. government an invoice after finding out their music was used as torture device in Guantanamo Bay. Despite the band's aggressive sound, they said they had never envisioned their music being used in such a way. "Because we make unsettling music, we can see it being used in a weird way," singer Kevin "cEvin" Key said. "But [this] doesn't sit right with us."

Birthdays:

Alan Caddy, guitarist with The Tornadoes, was born on today in 1940.

Graham Nash is 76.

Robert DeLeo, bassist with Stone Temple Pilots, is 52.

Shakira is 41.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, Song Facts and Wikipedia.