| 67 | years ago | 1959 | The Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Bob Dylan makes his concert hall debut at New York's Carnegie Hall. About 50 people attended, mostly friends, and he earned 20 bucks. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Eric Clapton is asked to replace Anthony “Top” Topham in the Yardbirds. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Beatles' Yesterday hits #1 on the singles chart. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Crosby, Stills, & Nash's Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is released. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | CCR's Green River tops the LP chart. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Janis Joplin is found dead of an apparent heroin overdose in her room at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood. The 27-year-old had just finished recording her second solo album, Pearl. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform together for the first time in two years--unofficially. The concert is held at San Francisco's Winterland ballroom, and is actually a Stephen Stills and Manassas show. However, Graham Nash and David Crosby walk on stage and then later are joined by Neil Young for a 50-minute set. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Irish rockers Thin Lizzy play their first date with the twin-guitar lineup of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson in Aberystwyth, Wales. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | John Lennon releases his Walls And Bridges LP. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here LP hits #1 on the chart. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Carly Simon collapses on stage at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theater from nervous exhaustion. The rest of her tour is canceled. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac join the USC Trojan Marching Band for a halftime show at a USC football game. As half-time ends, the Trojans are presented with a platinum record for their contribution to the song, Tusk. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Queen's Another One Bites The Dust hits #1 on the pop singles chart while ELO's All Over The World peaks at #13 and Genesis' Turn It On Again peaks at #58. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | CBS Records releases the children's holiday album, In Harmony, which includes Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Squeeze breaks up. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | Two thugs attack CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather yelling “What's The Frequency Kenneth?” Ten years later R.E.M. will write a song called, What's The Frequency, Kenneth? |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | Van Halen's Love Walks In peaks at #22 on the singles chart. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Singer Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of the pope during an appearance on Saturday Night Live. The ensuing uproar does much to damage O'Connor's popularity. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Van Halen announces that former Extreme lead singer Gary Cherone was chosen as the new lead singer of the group, replacing Sammy Hagar. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Bob Allen Deal, a.k.a. Mick Mars of Mötley Crüe, undergoes hip replacement surgery in Los Angeles. The band, whose members haven't played together in six years, is talking of a reunion tour, and Mick hopes for a speedy recovery so he can join them. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Paul Simon, Lou Reed, and others perform at the American Livil Liberties Union “Freedom Concert” to raise money for the ACLU, which can no longer take money from the Combined Federal Program, a sort of “United Way” for government and military employees, because it refuses to screen its employees against a terrorist list. Paul does America and Lou does Walk on the Wild Side. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | Bruce Springsteen and his wife Patty Scialfa are sued by Olympic equestrian Todd Minikus, who claims the couple reneged on a contract to buy a horse named Pavrotti from Minikus for their daughter, and to give Minikus their horse named Scarlett. The cash part of the deal was for $650,000, and Scarlett was reportedly worth $200,000. |