| 83 years ago (1941) | Singer Ann-Margret, who grows up in Chicago, tours with comedian Bob Hope, and gets a role in the movie of the rock opera Tommy, is born in Sweden. |
| 79 years ago (1945) | Eddie Jobson of Jethro Tull and Roxy Music is born. |
| 71 years ago (1953) | Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth is born. |
| 61 years ago (1963) | Andrew Loog Oldham, a 19-year-old music-business publicist and former associate of Brian Epstein, catches a gig by the Rolling Stones at the Crawdaddy Club in London. The next day, Oldham will sign the Stones to their first management contract. The band has their first recording session 2 weeks later. |
| 57 years ago (1967) | This Diamond Ring by Gary Lewis and the Playboys is certified gold. Though he has more Top Twenty hits, this is Lewis' only gold record. |
| 56 years ago (1968) | After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater, Hair opens at the Biltmore Theater in New York. It's the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way. It goes on to give 1,729 performances on Broadway and is made into a movie in 1979. |
| 53 years ago (1971) | Barbara Streisand gets a gold album for Stoney End, one of her rare forays into rock music. At 28 years old, Streisand is intent on changing her image, and takes to lighting joints onstage in Las Vegas. |
| 51 years ago (1973) | Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon tops the chart for one week. The album has the longest chart life on the Billboard album charts. |
| 49 years ago (1975) | Legendary DJ and father of Rock radio Tom Donahue dies from a heart attack at age 46. |
| 48 years ago (1976) | The Rolling Stones begin a two-month tour of Europe at the Festhalled in Frankfurt, Germany. The show marks their first appearance on the continent in three years. |
| 44 years ago (1980) | Marshall Tucker Band bass player Tommy Caldwell dies of injures he got in a car accident in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina. |
| 37 years ago (1987) | On a plane carrying returning spring breakers to Boston from Miami, Ozzy Osbourne buys three rounds of drinks and sings Crazy Train over the PA system. |
| 35 years ago (1989) | New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi marries his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. |
| 33 years ago (1991) | Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael “Noonan” O'Keefe in New York. They announce divorce plans in 1999. |
| 26 years ago (1998) | Enchanted, the Stevie Nicks three-CD box set, is released. |
| 25 years ago (1999) | Tommy Petty and the Heartbreakers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
| 25 years ago (1999) | After realizing that someone has stuck a smiley face on one of his props, Marilyn Manson cuts short his concert in Des Moines and walks off the stage. A riot ensues, and 23 people are arrested. |
| 9 years ago (2015) | Jack Ely, the lead singer of the group The Kingsmen which recorded the 1963 hit Louie Louie -- a song that prompted an FBI investigation into whether it was obscene -- dies at age 71. Ely left the group shortly after the song was released and ended up training horses in Oregon. |
| 1 year ago (2023) | Tim Bachman, one of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s two founding guitarists, dies of brain cancer at age 71. |