| 82 | years ago | 1943 | Maria Muldaur is born. |
| 73 | years ago | 1952 | Gerry Beckley, vocalist for America, and Rush drummer Neil Peart are born. |
| 60 | years ago | 1965 | The Beatles Yesterday is released in the U.S. They also appear this evening on Ed Sullivan in a segment taped before a live audience a month earlier. |
| 60 | years ago | 1965 | Norwood Fisher of Fishbone is born |
| 59 | years ago | 1966 | Ben Folds of the Ben Folds Five is born |
| 59 | years ago | 1966 | The Beatles receive a gold record for Yellow Submarine. |
| 59 | years ago | 1966 | The Monkees television show premieres on NBC. The show depicts the zany adventures of a loveable long-haired rock band-obviously modeled after The Beatles and their film, A Hard Days Night. The group consists of Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Mickey Dolenz, and at first, they sang but did not play any of the instruments. The television show would remain on the air through 1969. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | Larry LaLonde of Primus is born. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | Josie and the Pussycats, a Saturday morning cartoon about an all-girl band, debuts on CBS. It runs through September 1972. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | More than 18,000 people attend the Woody Guthrie memorial concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Among the performers were Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Woody's son, Arlo. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | James Taylor's Fire and Rain is released. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 peaks at #4 on the pop singles chart. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | Oasis singer Liam Gallagher is born. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | Liam Gallagher of Oasis is born. |
| 48 | years ago | 1977 | South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko dies at age 30. Peter Gabriel later writes his classic song, Biko about him. |
| 44 | years ago | 1981 | The Four Tops, who bolted Motown after many years to record with Casablanca Records, enter the soul LP charts with Tonight! It will peak at #5. It enters the pop LP chart and reaches #37. The single off the record, When She Was My Girl, hits #11 pop and #1 soul for two weeks. |
| 38 | years ago | 1987 | Morrisey leaves The Smiths for a solo career. |
| 38 | years ago | 1987 | Los Lobos' version of Ritchie Valens' La Bamba hits #1 on the singles chart. |
| 35 | years ago | 1990 | Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks both announce that they'll no longer perform with Fleetwood Mac. A little over two years later, they reunite with the group to sing at President Clinton's inauguration. Four years after that, they reunite for an MTV Unplugged special, which leads to a #1 album and immensely successful concert tour. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | U2's Even Better Than The Real Thing peaks at #32 on the singles chart. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | Eric Clapton's Unplugged LP enters the chart. The record would go on to win the Grammy for Album of the Year, with sales reaching over 7 million. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | The Honeymoon In Vegas soundtrack enters the LP chart. The soundtrack features all Elvis covers as performed by Billy Joel, John Mellencamp, Bono, and others. |
| 29 | years ago | 1996 | Oasis abruptly cancels its U.S. tour two-thirds of the way into it. The band said it was due to “internal differences.” |
| 19 | years ago | 2006 | Britney Spears gives birth to her second baby boy, Jayden James, with husband Kevin Federline. She files for divorce and custody of both children less than two months later. |
| 17 | years ago | 2008 | Tens of thousands of fans pack the central square in Karkiv, Ukraine for an AIDS charity concert by Queen timed to the release of their new album, Cosmos Rocks. Ex-Free and Bad Company rocker Paul Rogers is now Queen’s front man. Queen’s original lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, died from an AIDS-related illness in 1991. |
| 14 | years ago | 2011 | Bob Seger ends his time as an iTunes holdout. Live Bullet (1976) and Nine Tonight (1981) are the first Seger albums to appear on both iTunes and Amazon.com. The rest of the catalog becomes available in dribs and drabs. |