- Trent Reznor's How To Destroy Angels released the new video How Long from their upcoming album Welcome Oblivion. (NPR)
- The Beatles's I Want To Hold Your Hand became the number one single on February 1, 1964.
- Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich announced new tour dates. (Rolling Stones)
- Dave Grohl released his much publicized documentary Sound City. (Spin)
- Sonic Youth's guitarist Lee Ranaldo was born in Long Island on February 3, 1956.
- Guitarist Gary Moore died in a hotel room in Spain on February 6, 2011. He was 58.
- English writer Charles Dickens was born in Kent on February 7, 1812. Special TV programs, stamps and mobile app are released to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth. (Dickens2012)
- The Dickens Project. (UCSC)
- Charles Dickens resources. (PBS)
- Paul McCartney received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 9, 2012. (Rolling Stone)
- Whitney Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California on February 11, 2012.
- The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek was born in the south side of Chicago on February 12, 1939.
- Matt Groening was born on in Portland on February 15, 1954.
- Matt Groening documentary. (Youtube)
- Life In Hell – Comic strips by Matt Groening. (Flickr)
- German physicist Heinrich Hertz was born on February 22, 1857.
- George Harrison was born on February 25, 1943.
- Blues guitarist and singer Eddie Kirkland passed away on February 27, 2011. (Paste)
- 60th Anniversary Telecaster. Officially named in February 1951.
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