| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Rick Grech, bass player for Blind Faith and Traffic, is born. He died in 1990 |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Lyle Lovett is born. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | The Spacemen's The Clouds enters the R&B chart at #24. Their only chart entry will make it to the top spot and remain on the R&B charts for 18 weeks. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Eddie MacDonald of The Alarm is born. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis is born. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | The Beatles open a two-week show at their old stomping ground, the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany. A recording made on a small, portable tape recorder one night will be pressed and issued as Singasong Records' Live! At the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, 1962 in 1977. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Playing a concert at the Odeon Theatre in Cheltenham, England, The Beatles start their second headlining tour of the country and find that since their first, in May, the country has gone mad. Everywhere they go, fans have lined up for two days, sometimes more, for tickets. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The Dave Clark Five appear on the Ed Sullivan Show singing their hit Glad All Over. Sullivan compares them favorable to the Rolling Stones, saying that unlike the latter, the DC5 are “nice, neat boys.” |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Three Elvis Presley albums are certified gold this day: his 1956 debut album, Elvis Presley, Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 2 and Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 3. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | James Taylor: A Christmas Album is released exclusively through Hallmark Gold Crown greeting card stores. His previous album, October Road was released by Columbia Records two years before, and James had been without a record label since. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Huey Lewis joins the long-running Broadway musical as rapscallion lawyer Billy Flynn. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | Heather Mills McCartney, on NBC’s Today Show, speaks out against her estranged husband, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, and against the tabloid press for not stopping the publication of articles that she says have resulted in death threats against her. |
| 17 | years ago | 2009 | The three-day Voodoo Music Experience wraps in New Orleans' City Park on All Saints Day. Lenny Kravitz, Widesoread Panic, The Flaming Lips, and Brand New do the honors. |