It's When's Day – the Day of the When. Each week Shout4Music takes you through the following seven days in musical history with the births, marriage, deaths and anything else that takes our fancy.

It's an important week in musical history. Especially if you're Tori Amos, you like sampling music in your bedroom, or you're the kind of musician whose parents gave you the wrong name at birth.

11 January

- Half of The Chemical Brothers is born in the form of Tom Rowland (1971).

12 January

- Tori Amos's 'Professional Widow' goes to number one (1997).

13 January

- Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips is born (1961).

- Christening Crisis I: Suggs of Madness is born with the name Graham McPherson (1961).

- David Bowie's 'Low' is released (1977).

- Tori Amos releases the album 'Little Earthquakes' (1992).

- White Town releases 'Your Woman' (1997). It's a track produced entirely from a bedroom somewhere in Derby. A taste of things to come.

 14 January

- Paul Simon releases his eponymous album (1972).

 15 January

- Christening Crisis II: Captain Beefheart is born with the name Don Van Vliet (1941). Captain Beefheart was one of the more eccentric of rock's eccentrics. What he lacked in musical knowledge (he couldn't read, play or write music), he more than made up for with his ability to get exactly what he wanted from his band - until they dumped him en masse for unpaid tours.

Despite all of this, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band produced made a heavy imprint on the history of music with albums like 'Safe As Milk' and the sonically challenging 'Trout Mask Replica'.

To mark his birthday, here's a clip of Captain Beefheart meeting his match on a particularly weird Dutch TV show. Enjoy.

16 January

- The Cavern Club in Liverpool opens (1957). One day, this venue will help launch the career of… Cilla Black.

17 January

- Christening Crisis III: Ari Up of The Slits is born. Unaware the spirit of punk has already named the child, her parents call her Ariane Daniele Forster (1962).