| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Keith Emerson, keyboardist for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | Tennessee Ernie Ford's Sixteen Tons first appears on the charts. It will become one of the biggest selling singles of its time. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | After complaining to no avail that the go-go dancers surrounding him on stage are distracting him, Dion walks off stage during a live taping of his performance for the British television show Ready, Steady, Go in London. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | The Beach Boys' Be True To Your School is released. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Bluesman John Hurt dies in Mississippi at the age of 73. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Appearing at Madison Square Garden on its farewell tour of the U.S., Cream is awarded a platinum disc marking sales of over $2 million of its double album Wheels of Fire, by their U.S. record company, Atco. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Stevie Wonder's For Once In My Life is released. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Gold records go to the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (just a month after its release), the Moody Blues' A Question of Balance, Neil Young's After the Goldrush, and Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding's Live at Monterey. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | George Harrison begins his first tour in eight years and makes his first onstage appearance since the Bangla Desh concerts three years ago, in Vancouver, Washington. It will be a troublesome tour for him as his voice is ravaged after LP sessions and tour rehearsals. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | The movie version of The Who's Quadrophenia, which features Sting, opens. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Mick and Bianca Jagger divorce. |
| 36 | years ago | 1990 | Prince's fourth film, Graffiti Bridge co-starring Tevin Campbell and Mavis Staples opens. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | Led Zeppelin is forced to postpone its first concert in two decades from November 26 to December 10, 2007 after guitarist Jimmy Page fractures a finger. More than a million fans had entered a drawing for a chance to buy the 10,000 tickets to the concert at London’s O2 Arena. The linup includes former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and Foreigner. |