| 79 | years ago | 1946 | Benny Andersson of ABBA is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1950 | Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1951 | Yellowjackets and Blue Line guitarist Robben Ford is born, as is Bill Bateman of The Blasters. |
| 59 | years ago | 1966 | Jimi Hendrix releases his first single, Hey Joe. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | Creedence Clearwater Revival's debut LP is certified gold. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | In one day, five singles and five albums by Creedance Clearwater Revival are certified gold: Down on the Corner, Lookin out My Back Door, Travelin' Band, Bad Moon Rising, Up around the Bend and Cosmo's Factory, Willy and the Poor Boys, Green River, Bayou Country and Creedance Clearwater Revival. |
| 50 | years ago | 1975 | The Bay City Rollers earn their first U.S. gold record for their first U.S. hit single, Saturday Night. It will make it to #1 on the pop chart early next year. On the 31st of this month, the album Bay City Rollers goes gold. They will go on to have five more Top Forty hits in the U.S. |
| 48 | years ago | 1977 | The Bee Gees receive a gold record for How Deep is Your Love, the fourth of their seven #1 singles. The song will become the subject of a copyright infringement suit five years later, when an amateur songwriter claims the brothers Gibb lifted the melody from a composition he'd written. |
| 19 | years ago | 2006 | An album cover signed by all four Beatles as a gift for George Harrison's sister goes up for bid at itsonlyrocknroll.com and brings more than $115,000, believed to be a record price for a signed Beatles album sold at a public sale. The Beatles had signed the Meet the Beatles album while aboard a train taking them to a 1964 Washington concert. |