He died of lung cancer in London on 1 January 1984 and was survived by a daughter, musician Sappho Gillett Korner, and two sons, guitarist Nicholas ( Nico ) Korner and sound engineer Damian Korner.

Mötley Crüe was formed on January 17, 1981 when bass guitarist Nikki Sixx left the band London and began rehearsing with drummer Tommy Lee and vocalist / guitarist Greg Leon.

Matteo Carcassi ( 1792 – 16 January 1853 ) was a famous Italian guitarist and composer.

Mance Lipscomb ( April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976 ) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster.

* January 31 – Jeff Hanneman, American rock guitarist ( Slayer )

* January 2 – Harold Bradley, American session guitarist on country music records

* January 29 – hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist

* January 6 – Syd Barrett, English rock guitarist and singer ( Pink Floyd ) ( d. 2006 )

* January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist ( b. 1932 )

* January 18 – Gustavo Kupinski, Argentine guitarist ( d. 2011 )

* January 12 – Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter & Roxette guitarist

* January 29 – James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records ( d. 1983 )

* January 23 – John Mills, Jr., " Mills Brothers " basso and guitarist ( b. 1911 )

* January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist ( d. 1953 )

* January 8 – Steve Clark, English guitarist ( b. 1960 )

* January 8 – Elvis Presley, American singer, actor, and guitarist ( d. 1977 )

Rupe departed in January 2000 and was replaced by bass guitarist Brandy Wood.

Singer-bassist Sting ( Gordon Sumner ) and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977, and they recorded the first Police single " Fall Out " the following month.

Derek Bailey ( 29 January 1930 – 25 December 2005 ) was an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement.

* Earl Hooker ( January 15, 1929 — April 21, 1970 ) — blues guitarist.

Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10, 1956 in a session that featured his band, The Blue Moon Boys, as well as guitarist Chet Atkins and pianist Floyd Cramer.

On January 5, 2011, the band announced that they had recruited TV on the Radio guitarist and producer Dave Sitek as a replacement for Duff McKagan.

Harrison, the usual lead guitarist, had temporarily quit the group on 10 January, so Lennon worked out the lead guitar.

Stéphane Grappelli ( ; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997 ) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

* January 12 – Jeff Bezos, American Internet entrepreneur

* January 8 – Jeff Abercrombie, American rock musician ( Fuel )

* January 21 – Jeff Koons, American artist

In 1999, the company hired former assistant attorney general Anne Bingaman, married to Democratic New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, as a Washington lobbyist, paying her $ 2. 5 million between January and June 1999 to try to block licensing of an AT & T, MCI, and Sprint consortium cable from the U. S. to Japan.

Jeffrey Preston " Jeff " Bezos (; born January 12, 1964 ) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon. com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products.

On January 7, 2006, after weeks of growing pressure from Republican colleagues, and particularly from Reps. Charlie Bass and Jeff Flake, who wanted to avoid being associated with DeLay's legal issues in an election year, DeLay announced that he would not seek to regain his position as Majority Leader.

New head executive Jeff Plush had taken over the business responsibilities of the club when he was named Managing Director in January 2006.

In January 2008, Jeff Harvey accepted the position of President and CEO of Burgerville after Tom Mears, the former holder of the titles stepped aside, and became Chairman of the company.

Several people involved in the show from its beginnings died during this period: Jim Henson in 1990 at the age of 53 " from a runaway strep infection gone stubbornly, foolishly untreated "; songwriter Joe Raposo from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma fifteen months earlier ; long-time cast member Northern Calloway of cardiac arrest in January 1990 ; puppeteer Richard Hunt of AIDS in early 1992 ; CTW founder and producer David Connell of bladder cancer in 1995 ; director Jon Stone of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1997 ; and writer Jeff Moss of colon cancer in 1998.

In January 1995, the band released " The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead " ( a cover of XTC's 1992 track ) as a single and on the soundtrack of the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy Dumb and Dumber.

On January 9, 2012, Goldenvoice revealed that Jeff Mangum would appear on the Saturday bill for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Jefferson Davis ( May 6, 1862 – January 3, 1913 ), commonly known as Jeff Davis, was a Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and the 20th Governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas.

Although Raven did win his way back onto the Raw roster, he only had one match ( losing to Jeff Hardy in a Royal Rumble qualifier ) before being released from WWE the following week on January 20, 2003.

Raven debuted in TNA Wrestling on January 22, 2003, two days after his release from WWE, attacking and hitting his finisher on Jeff Jarrett and stealing the NWA World Heavyweight Title from him.

From September 1987 – January 1988, the Saatchi Gallery mounted two exhibitions entitled New York Art Now, featuring Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, Peter Halley, Haim Steinbach, Philip Taaffe and Caroll Dunham.

In January 1981, 19-year-old Jeff Dailey died of a heart attack soon after posting a score of 16, 660 on Berzerk.

Jeff Nuttall ( July 8, 1933 – January 4, 2004 ) was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist sympathiser and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture.

At TNA's Final Resolution PPV event on January 15, 2006, Cage participated in his first TNA PPV main event by teaming with Sting to defeat the team of Monty Brown and Jeff Jarrett.

In addition to Jeff Christie ( born Jeffrey Christie, 12 July 1946, St Martin's Road, Leeds, Yorkshire, England ) their vocalist, bassist and songwriter ; they initially included guitarist Vic Elmes and drummer Mike Blakley ( born Michael Blakley, 12 January 1947, Bromley, Kent, England ).

On 14 January 2011, Jeff Scheel revealed a unreleased music video for " Down " on Youtube and told some people on Facebook it was a " previously unreleased Gravity Kills video ", he got the video from Kurt Kerns when Kurt recovered the video by capturing it on a videotape when it was aired and then he passed the videotape footage to Jeff.

Flat Stanley is a 1964 children's book written by Jeff Brown ( January 1, 1926 – December 3, 2003 ) and originally illustrated by Tomi Ungerer.

The Jeff Beck Group was an English rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck.