| 92 | years ago | 1934 | Country singer/songwriter John D. Loudermilk is born. |
| 91 | years ago | 1935 | Trumpeter Herb Alpert, the “A” in A & M Records, is born. |
| 78 | years ago | 1948 | Mick Ralphs, guitar player with Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, is born. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Obie Wheeler, and Glen Douglas open a tour of the South in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode is released. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | AC/DC guitarist Angus Young is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Instant Records releases Chris Kenner's I Like It Like That backed with I Like it like That, Part Two. It will be his only hit outside his hometown of New Orleans. However, Wilson Pickett does very well with Kenner's Land of 1000 Dances in 1966. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire in front of an audience for the first time during a concert in London. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | America's debut LP, entitled simply America, sits atop the Billboard chart. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | The Doobie Brothers announce their break-up. The band started in the '70s with the #11 hit Listen to the Music. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | O'Kelly Isley of the Isley Brothers dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 48 years old. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Prince's Sign O' The Times LP is released. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Two Bruce Springsteen albums go on sale at midnight -- Human Touch and Lucky Town. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Latino superstar Selena is shot and killed by her former personal assistant and former president of her fan club, who was fired for embezzlement. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | An all-star tribute to Fleetwood Mac's classic album Rumours is released. The LP, Legacy is produced by Mick Fleetwood and features a different artist performing each of the 11 tracks. Included on the album is Elton John's version of Don't Stop, Shawn Colvin's version of The Chain, and Jewel doing You Make Lovin' Fun. |
| 26 | years ago | 2000 | Santana earns his second #1 single with Maria, Maria from his Supernatural album. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Ex-Van Halen singer David Lee Roth, the replacement for Howard Stern on seven CBS radio stations since January when Howard moved to satellite radio, tells his audience that he intends to hang in at the morning radio show despite all the changes demanded by CBS executives in the past few days. He dumps the background music and his three on-air sidekicks. |