| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Twelve-year old Steveland Morris Judkins, renamed Little Stevie Wonder, records his first single, Thank you for Loving Me All the Way, for Motown Records. The record doesn't do anything but he is billed as the twelve year old genius. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Temptations enter the Hot 100 for the seventh time with My Baby, which will reach #13 in eight weeks on the chart. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Byrds' Turn! Turn! Turn! is released. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Bob Dylan's Great White Women bootleg album sells like hotcakes in the U.S and Canada. Columbia Records, which has Dylan under contract, says it will pursue court action to stop the bootleg's sales. Dylan has no comment. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Tommy, Pete Townshend's rock opera spends its last week on the LP chart, two and a half years after its release. However, Tommy returns in 1972 for a one-night-only London stage performance and again in 1975 with the release of the movie Tommy. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | CBS Records becomes the first U.S. label to announce a price hike to $8.98 list price for albums. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Maybelle Carter, matriarch of the musical Carter family dies. Maybelle was the mother of June Carter, who became Mrs. Johnny Cash. She was 69. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempts suicide while awaiting murder charges at New York's Rikers Island Detention Center. Vicious was charged with the killing of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Rapper Tone-Loc is ordered to take an anger management class after fighting a pizza delivery person over a pizza he didn't like. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | A federal district judge in St. Louis, MO denies a motion that would have permitted the Fort Zumwalt high school marching band the right to play a banned all-music segment of '60s songs that includes Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. The school superintendent banned the song because he felt it promoted the drug culture. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Ashlee Simpson is the musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.. She performs her hit single, Pieces of Me, with no problem. But later in the show she returns to do another song. Her band starts playing, but while holding the microphone at her waist, the first lines of her singing Pieces of Me are heard again. She does a little dance shuffle, then walks off stage in shock and embarrasment. The pre-recorded vocal was a backing track to help her through a case of hoarseness from acid reflux disease. A producer coaxes Ashlee back on stage for the cast good-byes at the end of the show. |
| 10 | years ago | 2016 | Singer Pete Burns, who founded pop group Dead Or Alive, dies at the age of 57 after a cardiac arrest. Burns rose to fame in the 1980s with the band’s hit song You Spin Me Round (Like a Record). He also appeared on TV’s Big Brother in 2006, coming in fifth in the final. |