| 83 | years ago | 1942 | Ray Thomas, flautist and vocalist for the Moody Blues. |
| 78 | years ago | 1947 | Cozy Powell, drummer for the Jeff Beck Group and Rainbow, is born. |
| 70 | years ago | 1955 | Neil Geraldo, guitarist for and husband to Pat Benatar, is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1963 | The Weavers, America's preeminent folk music group, give their farewell concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. They made nationwide impact with their recordings in the late 40's and early 50's with songs like Goodnight Irene and On Top of Old Smokey. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mason quits Traffic, one of the U.K.'s most popular and successful rock bands. Mason embarks on a successful solo career. |
| 50 | years ago | 1975 | Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane divorce. |
| 45 | years ago | 1980 | Folksinger/songwriter Tim Hardin dies at age forty of a heroin overdose in his Hollywood apartment. His best known songs included If I Were a Carpenter (a hit for Bobby Darin in 1966 and the Four Tops in 1968) and Reason to Believe (a hit for Rod Stewart in 1971). |
| 43 | years ago | 1982 | Jamaica issues a Bob Marley commemorative stamp in honor of the late reggae giant. |
| 31 | years ago | 1994 | Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopes pleads guilty to arson charges. She set fire to and destroyed boyfriend Andre Rison's $1 million Atlanta mansion. |
| 21 | years ago | 2004 | Wade Jones of Belmont, North Carolina, who sold three tablespoons of Elvis Presley water on eBay last week, auctions a one-time appearance of the plastic foam cup that held the water. Jones retreived the cup from which Presley drank while introducing his band at a 1977 Presley concert. The water sold for $455 four days ago. Jones doesn't want to sell the cup. But he'll take a minimum of $300 plus travel expenses to display the cup one time, preferably on Elvis’ January 8th birthday. |
| 19 | years ago | 2006 | Marilyn Manson files for divorce after little more than a year of marriage to Heather Sweet, who performs as burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese. |