| 72 years ago (1945) | Nona Hendryx is born in Trenton, New Jersey. She grows up to be Labelle of Lady Marmelade fame. And it's also the birthday for Barbara Harris of The Toys. |
| 68 years ago (1949) | Nigel Griggs, bassist for Split Enz, is born. |
| 67 years ago (1950) | Foreigner’s drummer Dennis Elliott is born. |
| 66 years ago (1951) | John Rees of Men At Work is born. |
| 65 years ago (1952) | Actor, dancer, and singer Patrick Swayze is born in Houston, Texas. In 1988, he'll have a #3 hit with Wendy Fraser titled She's Like The Wind. |
| 61 years ago (1956) | Little Willie John's original version of Fever enters the pop charts at #24. The song will be a big hit for both the McCoys and Peggy Lee. |
| 61 years ago (1956) | Elvis Presley's Hound Dog enters the R&B chart at #11. Peacock records releases Big Mama Thornton's original version the same day. It was an R&B #1 for Thornton in 1953. |
| 60 years ago (1957) | Ron Strykert, guitarist with Men At Work, is born. |
| 57 years ago (1960) | Elvis Presley's first post-Army movie, G.I. Blues, is sneak previewed in Dallas. It officially opens three months later. |
| 55 years ago (1962) | Peter, Paul & Mary's If I Had A Hammer is released. |
| 55 years ago (1962) | Ringo Starr makes his first appearance as a Beatle at a Cavern Club gig. |
| 51 years ago (1966) | The Beatles have their eleventh U. K. #1 with the double-A-sided Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby. |
| 50 years ago (1967) | The Rolling Stones release We Love You. |
| 48 years ago (1969) | Two concert-goers die at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York--one from an overdose of heroin, and the other from a burst appendix. |
| 48 years ago (1969) | Mick Jagger is accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Austrailia. |
| 45 years ago (1972) | Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney $800 in Sweden for cannabis possession. |
| 44 years ago (1973) | The Doobie Brothers' China Grove is released. |
| 44 years ago (1973) | Jethro Tull scores its second #1 album with A Passion Play. And Diana Ross gets her second #1 single with Touch Me In The Morning. |
| 41 years ago (1976) | The first issue of punk fanzine Sniffin’ Glue is published. |
| 41 years ago (1976) | Variety reports that Marvin Gaye faces two consecutive five-day prison terms in Los Angeles County Jail for contempt of court after failing to pay alimony and child support. |
| 40 years ago (1977) | Funeral services for Elvis Presley are held at Graceland. Inside are 150 mourners, outside are 75,000. Presley is entombed in a white marble mausoleum at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis near the grave of his mother, Gladys. |
| 40 years ago (1977) | The Police perform as a trio for the first time after guitarist Henri Padovani leaves the band. |
| 39 years ago (1978) | Melvin Franklin of the Temptations is shot four times in a carjacking. He survives. |
| 38 years ago (1979) | Chic goes to #1 on the singles chart with Good Times, the group’s second #1. |
| 38 years ago (1979) | British rocker Nick Lowe and U.S. rock singer Carlene Carter are wed in Los Angeles. She is the step daughter of Johnny Cash. |
| 36 years ago (1981) | The Moody Blues come together to record their ninth L.P., Long Distance Voyager. It goes gold. The band leaves on a major tour. |
| 35 years ago (1982) | The City of Liverpool names four Streets after The Beatles: John Lennon Drive, Paul McCartney Way, George Harrison Close, and Ringo Starr Drive. |
| 33 years ago (1984) | Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran marries American model Julie Anne at Marylebone registry office London. |
| 31 years ago (1986) | Bon Jovi releases its Slippery When Wet album. |
| 26 years ago (1991) | Musician Billy Preston is arrested in Los Angeles after a 16-year-old boy reported being sexually attacked. |
| 25 years ago (1992) | Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Hole's Courtney Love become parents to daughter Frances Bean. |
| 20 years ago (1997) | The Rolling Stones announce the plans for their upcoming Bridges To Babylon tour in grand style. The band rolls up to the Brooklyn Bridge in New York in a red '55 Cadillac with Mick at the wheel. |
| 14 years ago (2003) | Tony Jackson, bass player with The Searchers, dies from cirrhosis of the liver. |
| 12 years ago (2005) | Just days after his European tour is cancelled because of exhaustion, it’s announced that Eminem has entered a hospital for treatment of sleep medication dependency. |
| 11 years ago (2006) | Boy George wraps up his 5-day stint of court-ordered street sweeping for New York's Sanitation Department. It was punishment for falsely reporting a burglary at his Manhattan apartment, where police found cocaine instead. George has nothing but praise for his fellow street cleaners, and says he may do a benefit concert for them. |
| 11 years ago (2006) | Pete Doherty of the Babyshambles pleads guilty in London to five counts of possessing drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine. |
| 11 years ago (2006) | Geri Halliwell , a.k.a. Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls, complains to London police that her 3-month-old daughter Bluebell was abused while in the care of a temporray staff member. |
| 8 years ago (2009) | Poison, Cheap Trick, and Def Leppard resurrect the Eighties at the New Orleans Arena with a live show. |