| 91 | years ago | 1935 | Early Rock & Roll pioneer Gene Vincent is born. |
| 87 | years ago | 1939 | Gerry Goffin, one-time husband and songwriting partner of Carole King is born. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | The Beatles record I Saw Her Standing There, Boys, Do You Want to Know a Secret, There's a Place, Twist and Shout and other songs for their first British album, Please Please Me at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London. The session lasts 14 hours despite John Lennon's cold. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The Beatles play their first U.S. concert for a general audience at the Washington Coliseum. That evening they attend a masked ball as guests of the British ambassador to the United States, Sir David Ormsby-Gore, Lord Harlech. The British prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, is to attend the ball, but postpones his arrival in Washington so as not to be upstaged by The Beatles. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox in London, with John Lennon, his wife Cynthia and George Harrison attending. Paul McCartney is away on vacation in Tunisia. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | In what probably was inevitable, The Monkees announce they'll play their own instruments on all future recordings. This is, of course, the beginning of the end. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | The Turtles' Happy Together is released. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | The film The Magic Christian, featuring Ringo Starr debuts in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, featuring Badfinger's Come and Get It, (which is written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple the same day. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds in fines for protesting the South African rugby team playing in Scotland. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | David Bowie performs as Ziggy Stardust for the first time in Tollworth, England. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | The Rolling Stones concert flick Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York during the city's heaviest snow storm this century. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | Genesis' That's All peaks at #6 on the pop chart thus becoming their first top-10 hit. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | John Cougar Mellencamp's Pink Houses peaks at #8 on the pop chart. It came from his top-10 album, Uh-Huh. And it had a pretty cool video too!. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | Middle of the Road by the Pretenders peaks at #19 on the pop chart. It was a track off their platinum album Learning to Crawl. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | Culture Club lead singer Boy George guest-stars on an episode of The A-Team. Boy plays a singer mistakenly booked into a country dance hall. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | The Chicago Bears' Super Bowl Shuffle is certified gold. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | U2's Angel of Harlem peaks at #14 on the pop chart. It was a track from their concert/documentary LP Rattle and Hum which went to #1 for 6 weeks. |
| 8 | years ago | 2018 | Legendary singer Vic Damone passes away at the age of 89. Damone, whose smooth baritone led Frank Sinatra to famously declare he “had the best pipes in the business,” died at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla., surrounded by several close relatives.
Damone starred in several television series, including The Vic Damone Show on NBC, and hit movies including Kismet and Rich, Young and Pretty,.
Best known for hits You're Breaking My Heart and On the Street Where You Live, with over 2,500 recordings under his belt, Damone was part of the golden age of lounge singers who came to fame after World War II, including Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, and Perry Como. |