| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Beach Boy Bruce Johnston is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The Drifters' last Top 10 hit, Under the Boardwalk enters the Hot 100. It peaks at #4. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Jan & Dean's Little Old Lady From Pasadena is released. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Elvis Presley begins taping his first television special, Elvis, at NBC studios in Burbank, California. The show's popularity is seen as the start of his comeback. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | The Denver Pop Festival opens at Mile High Stadium. Violence breaks out in the 50,000+ crowd and police move in with clubs and tear gas. The festival's last day (June 29) is the last concert for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young's Ohio is released. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | The Texas heavy-metal blues trio ZZ Top earns its second gold record for its fourth album, Fandango, which includes the Top 20 hit, Tush. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Bonnie Tyler's voice on It's a Heartache is compared and sometimes mistaken to be Rod Stewart's. The hubbub helps turn the single into a hit. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Virgin Music Publishing reaches an out-of-court settlement with Police bassist Sting on a 1977 contract. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Cyndi Lauper finally gets her high school diploma from Richmond High in New York. Meanwhile Debbie Gibson gets hers from Calhoun High on Long Island. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | MCA Records buys legendary Motown Records for $61 million. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | The Who performs the rock opera, Tommy in its entirety for the first time in 17 years at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The show raises money for a children's charity as well as the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Tom Jones is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | Paul McCartney's first classical work, the semi-autobiographical Liverpool Oratorio, is performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Liverpool Cathedral. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | Lyle Lovett marries actress Julia Roberts. They would divorce in 1995. |
| 24 | years ago | 2002 | John Entwistle, bassist for The Who, dies from a heart attack at age 57 during a cocaine and sex session with a Las Vegas prostitute. Staff at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas are subsequently bombarded with calls from Who fans desperate to stay in the same room. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | 71-year-old New Orleans jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis talks to music students and performs a short concert at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sons Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason had each performed there before as students, and sax-playing son Branford had performed there as well. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | A spokeswoman for Michael Jackson says he has fired his business managers and hired a New York firm to oversee his financial affairs. Michael also plans to move from Bahrain to Europe for better access to music industry figures. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Axl Rose spends most of the day in a jail cell in Stockholm after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg at his hotel. The Guns ’n’ Roses front man admits to the charges and is released after agreeing to pay a $5,500 fine and $1,360 in damages to the guard. |