| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Don Reid of The Statler Brothers is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Laurie Anderson, whose 11-minute single O Superman will be a huge hit in Great Britain in 1981, is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1952 | Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain is born |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Saxophonist Kenny G is born, as is Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Elvis Presley appears on The Milton Berle show singing his songs complete with hip gyrations. From then on, cameras would only show him from the waist up. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Gene Vincent's Be-Bop-A-Lula is released. It will eventually sell over a million copies. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Susie Q is released by Dale Hawkins and goes to #29. It will return to the charts eleven years later thanks to Creedence Clearwater Revival. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Bob Zimmerman graduates from Hibbing High School in Hibbing, Minnesota. Later at the University of Michigan he performs in a campus coffee house under the name Bob Dylan. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Davey Jones and the Kingbees release their first single, Liza Jane, in the UK. Davey Jones is later known as David Bowie. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Senator Robert Kennedy is shot and killed in Los Angeles. David Crosby writes Long Time Gone which is recorded by Crosby, Stills. and Nash. A day later, the Stones record Sympathy for the Devil which includes the lyrics, “..who killed the Kennedys…” |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | A forty minute documentary film of the Doors, Feast of Friends premieres at the Los Angeles Cinematheque 16. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | James Taylor's You've Got A Friend is released. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Singer Sly Stone marries Kathy Silva onstage during a concert in New York. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Patti Smith records her first song -- her version of Hey Joe. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | 311’s P-nut is born. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | Alice Cooper's pet boa constrictor is bitten by a rat it was trying to eat, and dies. Cooper holds a public audition to replace the snake, which was featured in his act. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | 64-year-old Muddy Waters marries Marva Jean Brooks on her 25th birthday. Eric Clapton serves as a witness. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Seb Lefebvre of Simple Plan is born. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Breeders guitarist Kelley Deal pleads guilty to drug possession charges. She is sentenced to treatment in a rehabilitation center. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | An arrest warrant is issued for former Milli Vanilli member Rob Pilatus after he disappeared from a drug treatment center in Los Angeles. He turns up at another center 6 days later. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | Aerosmith wins best song in a movie honors at the MTV Movie Awards for I Don't Want To Miss A Thing from the Armageddon movie soundtrack. |