| 92 | years ago | 1934 | Poet/songwriter Leonard Cohen is born. |
| 79 | years ago | 1947 | Don Felder, guitar player for the Eagles, is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | The Platters' first million seller, Only You, enters the pop charts at #24. The song hits #1 on the R&B chart. It becomes the first record to sell more than a million copies in France. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Sugar Shack by Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs enters the Hot 100. It says there for 15 weeks and climbs to #1 for five weeks starting on October 12. It receives a gold record on November 29. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Jimi Hendrix' All Along the Watchtower is released. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Beatles' Revolution peaks at #12 on the pop singles chart while Deep Purple's Hush peaks at #4 and The Moody Blues' Tuesday Afternoon peaks at #24. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Paul McCartney gets gold records for Another Day and Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | The Rolling Stones' It's Only Rock & Roll (But I Like It) peaks at #16 on the chart. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | BTO's You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet is released. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | The Bee Gees' 20th album, Children of the World, goes gold. It contains two of their latest hits You Should Be Dancing (#1 two weeks ago) and Love So Right (which will make it to #3 in two months.) |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Elton John signs a long-term exclusive, worldwide recording contract with Geffen Records, the new label that recently signed Donna Summer. This marks the first time his records will be released on the same label around the world. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | Billy Joel's Tell Her About It hits #1 on the singles chart. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | David Bowie releases Tonight. |
| 41 | years ago | 1985 | Dire Straits' Money For Nothing hits #1 on the pop chart. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | The Bangles break up. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | The Motown Song by Rod Stewart with The Temptations peaks at #10 on the singles chart. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | Stevie Nicks' greatest hits LP, Timespace enters the chart and Rush's Roll the Bones enters the LP chart. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers play a concert at the University of Florida in Gainsville, near where most members of the band were born and raised. It sells out in ten minutes. |
| 7 | years ago | 2019 | Leigh “Little Queenie” Harris, a star of the New Orleans music scene in the 1970s and 80s with her band Li’l Queenie and the Percolators, dies while in hospice care in North Carolina, where she relocated after Hurricane Katrina.. She had battled cancer for three years and was 65. |