Tuesday, February 3, 2026

On this day in music history:

Cheap Trick by Cheap Trick (1977)
The Ice Queen by Sue Foley (2018)


Cheap Trick
Album by Cheap Trick,
released February 3, 1977.
Track list: ELO Kiddies (Single Version); Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School; Taxman, Mr. Thief; Cry, Cry; Oh, Candy; Hot Love; Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace; He’s a Whore; Mandocello; The Ballad of TV Violence (I’m Not the Only Boy); Lovin’ Money; I Want You to Want Me (Early Studio Version); Lookout (Studio Version); You’re All Talk (Early Studio Version); I Dig Go-Go Girls (Outtake - 1977).


The Ice Queen
Album by Sue Foley,
released February 3, 2018.
Track list: Come To Me; 81; Run; The Ice Queen; The Lucky Ones; Gaslight; Fool’s Gold; If I Have Forsaken You; Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair; Death of a Dream; The Dance; Cannonball Blues.

Born on this day – Paul Auster:


Paul Auster


Writer

Director

February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024

Credits:

Books and plays:

110 Stories (2004); 4 3 2 1 (2017); A Life in Words (2017); Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990); Baumgartner (2023); Bloodbath Nation (2023); Blue in the Face (1990); Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021); Central Park: An Anthology (2012); City of Glass (1985); Collected Prose (2003); Collected Screenplays (2010); Dream Days in Hotel (1998); Ghosts (1986); Granta 58: Ambition (1997); Groundwork (2020); Hand to Mouth (1997); Here and Now (2012); In the Country of Last Things (1987); Invisible (2009); Leviathan (1992); Long Live King Kobe (2022); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Man in the Dark (2008); Moon Palace (1989); Mr. Vertigo (1994); Oracle Night (2004); Paul Auster's New York (1997); Report from the Interior (2013); Smoke (1995); Sophie Calle: Double Game (1999); Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001); Sunset Park (2010); Talking to Strangers (2019); The Art of Hunger (1983); The Book of Illusions (2002); The Brooklyn Follies (2005); The Future Dictionary of America (2004); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2000); The Invention of Solitude (1985); The Locked Room (1986); The Music of Chance (1990); The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1983); The Red Notebook (1993); The Story of My Typewriter (2002); Timbuktu (1999); Translations (1997); Travels in the Scriptorium (2005); White Spaces (1980); Why Write? (1996); Winter Journal (2012).

Movies and television:

20 heures le journal (2001); 21 cm (2018); 50 anys en companyia (2009); 60 Minutes / Smoke Screen (1996); Act of God (2009); Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009); Ànima (2012); Apos' (1987); Apostrophes (1990); As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005); Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000 (1998); Babel (2017); Bestseller (2002 / 2003); Blue in the Face (1995); Bonnie (2022); Broken Flowers (2005); C politique (2020); Café littéraire (2009); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2009); Ceremonia de apertura - 55º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Charlie Rose (1997–2004); Cinema 3 (2007); Continuarà... (2008); Conversas de Escritores (2009); David Blaine: Beyond Magic (2016); Doc (2008); Double je (2002); Druckfrisch (2013); Edge of Outside (2006); El blog de Cayetana (2007); Èxit (2008); Fluxus (2004); Gomorron (2011); Hjemkomst (2004); I Remember (1999); In the Country of Last Things (2020); It Was Mine (2015); Joan Mitchell: Woman in Abstraction (2022); Kulturplatz (2013); Kulturzeit (2017); La grande librairie (2009–2022); La tarda (2008); La tele de tu vida (2007); Le carnet rouge (2004); Le cercle (1998); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le Conversazioni, Close Up (2015); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2011); L'hora del lector (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Los Siete Locos (2018); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Mein Leben (2006); Newsnight (2017); Out of My Head (2018); Página 2 (2008–2017); Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2015); Paul Auster: Le jeu du hasard (2019); Por Outro Lado (2005); Qwerty (2008–2012); Sabine Christiansen in Sabine Christiansen (2001); Saturday Review (1987); Skavlan (2013); Smoke (1995); Sqizo (2020); Talking Books (2012); The Accompanist (1992); The Center of the World (2001); The DVD Collection (2005); The Fall (1969); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007); The Look / Age (2011); The Music of Chance (1993); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2020); Tot el temps del món (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Via llibre (2012).

Born on this day – Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk:


Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk


aka Melanie or Melanie Safka

Singer

Songwriter

February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024

Credits:

Am I Real or What (1985); Antlers (1997); Arabesque (1982); As I See It Now (1974); Ballroom Streets (1978); Beautiful People (1999); Born to Be (1968); Candles in the Rain (1970); Cowabonga – Never Turn Your Back on a Wave (1988); Crazy Love (2002); Ever Since You Never Heard of Me (2010); Garden in the City (1971); Gather Me (1971); Low Country (1997); Madrugada (1974); Melanie (1987); Melanie (aka Affectionately Melanie) (1969); Moments from My Life (2002); Old Bitch Warrior (1996); Paled by Dimmer Light (2004); Phonogenic – Not Just Another Pretty Face (1978); Photograph (1976); Seventh Wave (1983); Silence Is King (1993); Silver Anniversary (1993); Stoneground Words (1972); Sunset and Other Beginnings (1975); The Good Book (1971).

Born on this day – Trisha Noble:


Trisha Noble


Singer

Actress

February 3, 1944 – January 23, 2021

Credits:

Albums:

Hits and Rarities – The Story of Patsy Ann Noble (1997); Il Est Là Le Garçon (1964); Just for You (1962).

Songs:

A Good Looking Boy; Accidents Will Happen; Better Late Than Never; City Of Night; Crack in the Door; Don't You Ever Change Your Mind; Good Looking Boy; Green Eyed People; He Tells Me With His Eyes; He Who Rides A Tiger; Heartbreak Avenue; Hey Look Me Over; I Did Nothing Wrong; I Love You So Much It Hurts; I Was Only Foolin' Myself; If You Wanna Be More Than Friends; I'll Be Thinking Of You; It Might As Well Be Spring; It's Better to Cry Today; Johnny One Note; Like I'm In Love; Live For Life; Mama; Misty; Once In A Lifetime; Private Property; Put On A Happy Face; Sour Grapes; The New Israeli Patchka; Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye; Tied Up With Mary; When You Find Your True Love.

Movies and television:

A Dream Singing (1964); All Saints (2000–2004); Arnie (1972); Bandstand (1961–1967); Baretta (1975); BBC Show of the Week (1968); Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Bennies from Heaven (2000); Big Night Out (1963–1964); Blackpool Night Out (1964); Blonde (2001); Body Business (1986); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979 / 1980); Callan (1970); Carry on Camping (1969); Carry on Laughing (1981); Casablanca (1983); Club Night (1964); Columbo (1975); Comedy Bandbox (1964–1965); Crowther's Back in Town (1970); ..Deadline.. (1982); Discs-a-gogo (1963–1964); Eischied (1979); Executive Suite (1976–1977); Fantasy Island (1978); Five O'Clock Club (1965–1966); Flamingo Road (1981); Fraud Squad (1970); Funny Girl Happened to Me on the Way to the Piano (1966); Hart to Hart (1982); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); How the West Was Won (1978); Husbands, Wives & Lovers (1978); I'm a Fan (1972); International Cabaret (1968); Iolanthe (1968); James at 16 (1978); Juke Box Jury (1966); Love Is a Woman (1966); Matt Helm (1975); Matt Houston (1983); McMillan & Wife (1971); Mickey Dunne (1967); Mrs. Columbo (1979); My First Toy Company (2007); Ni figue ni raisin (1965); Night Gallery / Segment: House - With Ghost (1971); Oh Madeline (1983); One of Our Own (1975); Out of the Unknown (1969); Pops and Lenny (1963); Ready, Steady, Go! (1963); Reels Within Reels (1964); Revue '61 (1961–1962); Secret Agent (1966); Sing and Swing (1963); Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002); Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones: Deleted Scenes (2002); Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005); Stone (1980); Strike Force (1981–1982); T.J. Hooker (1983); Testimony of Two Men (1977); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1963–1966); The Andy Stewart Show (1964); The Arthur Haynes Show (1963); The Benny Hill Show (1966 / 1970); The Blackpool Show (1967); The Bob Crane Show (1975); The Charlie Drake Show (1967); The Courage and the Passion (1978); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1972); The Dave King Show (1969); The Dick Emery Show (1966–1968); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1964); The Engelbert Humperdinck Show (1970); The Golden Rock (1960); The Liberace Show (1969); The Love Boat (1981); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1976); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Nixon Line (1967); The Private Eyes (1980); The Rhinemann Exchange (1977); The Rockford Files (1979); The South Bank Show (1996); The Wednesday Play (1966); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979); Tommy Cooper (1970); Two of a Kind (1964); Up Pompeii! (1970); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1963); Water Rats (2000); We Have Ways of Making You Laugh (1968); What's a Carry On? (1998); Who-Dun-It (1969); Willow B: Women in Prison (1980); With Andy (1965); Z Cars (1969).

Born on this day – Michael Cimino:


Michael Cimino


Director

Producer

Writer

February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016

Credits:

City of Life (2009); Desperate Hours (1990); Eastman Kodak: Yesterdays (1967); Finding Home (2003); Heaven's Gate (1980); Il pianto della statua / The Wind Sculpture (2007); Magnum Force (1973); Platoon (1986); Silent Running (1972); The Big Brass Ring (1999); The Deer Hunter (1978); The Rose (1979); The Sicilian (1987); The Sunchaser (1996); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); To Each His Own Cinema (2007); United Airlines: Take Me Along (1967); Year of the Dragon (1985).

Born on this day – Hilary Masters:


Hilary Masters


Writer

February 3, 1928 – June 14, 2015

Credits:

An American Marriage (1969); Clemmons (1985); Cooper (1987); Elegy for Sam Emerson (2006); Hammertown Tales (1986); Home Is the Exile (1996); How the Indians Buried Their Dead (2009); In Montaigne's Tower (2000); Last Stands: Notes from Memory (1982); Manuscript for Murder (1987); Palace of Strangers (1971); Post: A Fable (2011); Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro (2005); Strickland (1989); Success: New and Selected Short Stories (1992); The Common Pasture (1967).

Born on this day – Clarence E. Mulford:


Clarence E. Mulford


Writer

February 3, 1883 – May 10, 1956

Credits:

Books:

Bar-20 (1906); Bar-20 Days / Hopalong Cassidy's Private War (1911); Bar-20 Three / Hopalong Cassidy Sees Red (1921); Black Buttes (1923); Bring Me His Ears (1922); Buck Peters, Ranchman (1912); Corson of the J.C. (1928); Cottonwood Gulch (1925); H. C. Returns (1923); Hopalong Cassidy (1910); Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagles Brood (1931); Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ (1941); Hopalong Cassidy Takes Cards (1937); Hopalong Cassidy's Saddle Mate (1926); Johnny Nelson (1920); Me An' Shorty (1929); Mesquite Jenkins (1928); Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed (1932); On The Trail Of The Tumbling T (1935); Round-Up (1933); Rustler's Valley (1924); Tex (1922); The Bar-20 Rides Again (1926); The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories (1921); The Coming of Cassidy (1913); The Deputy Sheriff (1930); The Man from Bar 20 (1918); The Orphan (1908); Trail Dust (1934).

Movies and television:

Bar 20 (1943); Bar 20 Justice (1938); Bar 20 Rides Again (1935); Battle of the Buttes (1952); Border Justice (1951); Border Patrol (1943); Border Vigilantes (1941); Borderland (1937); Borrowed Trouble (1948); Call of the Prairie (1936); Cassidy of Bar 20 (1938); Colt Comrades (1943); Danger Trail (1951); Dangerous Venture (1947); Doomed Caravan (1941); False Colors (1943); False Paradise (1948); Fool's Gold (1946); Forty Thieves (1944); Heart of Arizona (1938); Heart of the West (1936); Hidden Gold (1940); Hills of Old Wyoming (1937); Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935); Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954); Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936); Hopalong Rides Again (1937); Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943); Hoppy's Holiday (1947); In Old Mexico (1938); Law of the Pampas (1939); Law of the Trigger (1952); Leather Burners (1943); Lost Canyon (1942); Lumberjack (1944); Mystery Man (1944); North of the Rio Grande (1937); Outlaws of the Desert (1941); Partners of the Plains (1938); Pirates on Horseback (1941); Prairie Vengeance (1951); Pride of the West (1938); Range War (1939); Renegade Trail (1939); Riders of the Deadline (1943); Riders of the Timberline (1941); Rustlers' Valley (1937); Santa Fe Marshal (1940); Secret of the Wastelands (1941); Silent Conflict (1948); Silver on the Sage (1939); Sinister Journey (1948); Stagecoach War (1940); Stick to Your Guns (1941); Strange Gamble (1948); Sunset Trail (1938); Texas Masquerade (1944); Texas Trail (1937); The Dead Don't Dream (1948); The Deadwood Coach (1924); The Devil's Playground (1946); The Eagle's Brood (1935); The Frontiersmen (1938); The Marauders (1947); The Orphan (1920); The Showdown (1940); Three Men from Texas (1940); Three on the Trail (1936); Trail Dust (1936); Twilight on the Trail (1941); Undercover Man (1942); Unexpected Guest (1947); Wide Open Town (1941 / 1953).