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This day in music history

1998 Marilyn Manson begins a brief book-signing tour on Valentine’s Day at Tower Records in New York in support of his autobiography “It’s A Long, Hard Road Out of Hell.” It turns out it’s a long hard road out of New York … especially for a freaky faux tranny lost in blue-collar Brooklyn.

1978 Dire Straits begins recording their first album in London. Front man Mark Knopfler spends his spare time getting drunk and playing Space Invaders. The 1978 video gaming classic is later credited as the inspiration for technological breakthrough video “Money For Nothing.”

1977 The B-52s gives their debut performance at a Valentine’s Day party in Athens, Ga. They receive little acclaim and mediocre reviews due to the fact that most of the audience is killed when a tin roof collapses on them. It turns out the roof was “rusted.”