| 87 | years ago | 1939 | Jerry Allison of Buddy Holly & the Crickets is born. |
| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison is born. So is Bob Welch, guitarist and vocalist for Fleetwood Mac. |
| 78 | years ago | 1948 | Rudolph Schenker of The Scorpions is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | A London judge fines Sidney Adams Turner three pounds, ten shillings for, “creating an abominable noise.” After threatening his neighbors by saying, “I will drive you mad,” Turner played Bill Haley & the Comets' Shake Rattle & Roll as loud as possible from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Squeeze singer/songwriter Glenn Tilbrook is born. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock is born. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Tony DeFranco of The DeFranco Family is born. |
| 66 | years ago | 1960 | Singer Chris Witley is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | The Ronettes single, Be My Baby enters the chart. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | The Beatles announce they will handle their own affairs following the death of manager Brian Epstein. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Fleetwood Mac adds 18-year-old Danny Kirwin to its guitar playing stable. Kirwin joins Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | At England's Isle of Wight Pop Festival, Bob Dylan makes his first paid appearance since his motorcycle accident three years earlier. He's backed by The Band and puts 38,000 pounds into his pocket following the one hour show. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Jeff Russo of Tonic is born. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Singer-composer Debbie Gibson is born, as is Greg Richling of Wallflowers. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | A security guard is stabbed to death at a Who concert in Forest Hills, New York. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Paul McCartney receives a gold record for Live and Let Die. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | The Rolling Stones release Goat's Head Soup. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | In federal court, John Lennon testifies that the Nixon administration tried to have him deported because of his involvement with the anti-war demonstrations at the 1972 Republican convention in Miami. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Carole King's Jazzman is released. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | The Louisiana Superdome's first concert, dubbed the "Pride of Dixie" and featuring The Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willie, and The Charlie Daniels Band, is held. The audience numbers either 80,000, or 55,000, depending on which Times-Picayune article you read. And the Gambit Weekly reports that the Allman Brothers later sued the promoters for $1.3 million, claiming they got no money for 25,00 of the tickets sold. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | George Harrison is found guilty of “subconscious plagiarism” of the Chiffons' hit He's So Fine in his My Sweet Lord. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Pat Benatar's Crimes Of Passion LP enters the chart. The album features her signature song Hit Me With Your Best Shot. |
| 41 | years ago | 1985 | Bryan Adams' Summer of '69 peaks at #5 on the pop singles chart, while Billy Joel's You're Only Human (Second Wind) peaks at #9. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Actress Julianne Phillips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen, citing irreconcilable differences. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Bob Seger and his wife Annette Sinclair file for divorce. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | The Rolling Stones begin their first concert tour in eight years as they take Steel Wheels to JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | In preparation for the opening of his internet service the next day, David Bowie holds a number of webcast performances featuring Ani DiFranco, the Specials, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Jay Hawks, and Spacehog. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Jack Black hosts the MTV Music Awards from Radio City Music Hall in New York. Performers include Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Panic! At the Disco, and Ludacris. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | Victor Willis, the original Village People policeman, previews his planned 2008 world tour with a show at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. It's his first performance in about 25 years. He completed a drug rehab program a few months earlier. It followed a March, 2006 drug arrest. |
| 15 | years ago | 2011 | Rihannna files suit against the realty and others who designed and inspected the California home she bought in 2009 for $6.9 million. Water from a balcony flooded several rooms, leaving the home “uninhabitable” according to the singer. |