| 92 | years ago | 1934 | Saxaphonist Ace Cannon is born. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen is born. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Cliff Richard receives a British gold record for the title song from his first movie, The Young Ones. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | San Francisco by Scott McKenzie enters the charts and will eventually hit #4. The song became kind of an anthem during the hippie movement. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | After months of internal dissension, Buffalo Springfield plays its final concert in Long Beach, California. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising is released. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Thirty artists, brought together by Warren Beatty, have agreed to perform at a series of 12 benefits for the George McGovern presidential campaign. They include Michelle Phillips, Mama Cass, Judy Collins, Goldie Hawn, and Jack Nicholson. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | Clarence Quick of the Del Vikings dies of a heart attack. He was 46 years old. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | Pretenders lead singer Chrissie Hynde marries Simple Minds lead singer Jim Kerr. The two eventually divorced. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Chairman Ahmet Ertegen announces in New York that Cleveland, Ohio has been chosen as the city where the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will be built. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Rock singer Skye Sweetnam is born. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler is arraigned on a felony count of possession of heroin, as well as two misdemeanor drug charges. |
| 26 | years ago | 2000 | Rod Stewart undergoes a one-hour throat operation at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to remove a growth on his thyroid. The growth turns out to be benign. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Michael Jackson demands GQ Magazine pull its May issue from newstands, furious about an article called “Where’s Michael” that contains photographs of Michael Jackson impersonators in places like a darkened movie theater full of children, and in the desert with a black cloak and headscarf, and his trademark white glove. GQ’s editor Jim Nelson says, “It’s very clear the pictures in the story…are satirical.” |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | John Lennon’s sunglasses, Kurt Cobain’s MTV Award, Bill Clinton’s sax―all are auctioned off at the Icons of Music auction in New York. The centerpiece of the auction, The Edge’s ’75 cream Gibson Les Paul guitar, goes for a record $240,000. Administered by the Gibson Foundation and co-founded by The Edge, the Music Rising charity offered some of the most iconic rock memorabilia ever to the public. By the end of the event, which was standing room only, $2.5 million was raised. A portion goes to Music Rising to aid professional musicians, students, and parishioners of the Gulf Coast region affected by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | The Neville Brothers return to their tradition of wrapping up the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. |