| 102 | years ago | 1924 | Margaret Whiting is born in Detroit. She'll have Top 40 hits in 1956 (Money Tree) and 1966 (Wheel of Hurt). |
| 89 | years ago | 1937 | Chuck Jackson is born. His hits will include Any Day Now (1962) and I Don't Want To Cry (1961). |
| 86 | years ago | 1940 | George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic is born. So is one-hit wonder Thomas Wayne (Tragedy in 1959). |
| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Bobby Sherman is born. |
| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Estelle Bennett of The Ronettes is born, as is Rick Davies of Supertramp. |
| 79 | years ago | 1947 | Don Henley, drummer and vocalist for The Eagles, is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Keith Sweat is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Indigo Girl Emily Sailers is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | The Beatles' first U.S. album, Introducing The Beatles is released by Vee-Jay. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Bill Wyman appear in a London courtroom and are found guilty of “insulting behavior” for urinating against a London gas station wall. They are fined five pounds each. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Donovan has to cancel a North American tour when he is denied entry to the US because of a 1966 marijuana possession conviction. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Vanilla Fudge makes its concert debut in New York. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Pat Badger of Extreme is born. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Elvis Presley begins filming the movie Charro’, which is the only one where he has a beard. Only one Elvis song is used in the film, and it is a commercial failure. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Byrds release the album Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Elvis Presley’s NBC-TV Special soundtrack (a/k/a “The '68 Comeback Special”) is certified gold. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Aretha Franklin is arrested for disorderly conduct after creating a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Thirteen days after lead singer Jim Morrison passes on, the Doors are awarded a gold album for L.A. Woman. The L.P. includes Love Her Madly and Riders on the Storm. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | The variety show, The Bobby Darin Amusement Company premieres on CBS. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | The Who's Join Together is released. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Daniel Jones of Savage Garden is born. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | Elvis Costello's first album, My Aim Is True is released in Britain. It will be released later in the year in the States. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | Shaken by the deaths of his sister Rhonda and good friend Freddie Prinze, Tony Orlando says on stage at a show in Cohasset, Massachusetts, “This is my last day as a performer.” He spends some time recovering, and returns to the stage in November. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Little Richard, known as Reverend Richard Penniman, speaks at a revival meeting in North Richmond, California. He warns the congregation about the evils of rock & roll music and declares, “If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody.” |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | It's announced that the Allman Brothers have signed with Clive Davis' label, Arista. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | Diana Ross performs in concert in New York's Central Park. A show the night before was rained out. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Morris Albert is found guilty of plagiarism in New York, with a jury finding that his 1975 composition Feelings borrowed heavily from a French song from 1956 called Pour Toi. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | De La Soul's Me, Myself and I becomes a hit on the Hot 100 chart, where it peaks at #34. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence and girlfriend Paula Yates become parents to daughter Heavenly Hiranni Tigerlily. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | The parents of a teen-age murder victim sue the band Slayer contending that the band's lyrics were “satanic” and inspired three teen-age boys to rape, torture, and stab the girl to death. |
| 29 | years ago | 1997 | Elton John and Sting are among the mourners at designer Gianni Versace's funeral in Milan, Italy. Versace was murdered the previous week in front of his Miami Beach home. Elton and Sting sing an arrangement of Psalm 23 and then Elton breaks down after standing by the altar for 15 minutes. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Eugene Record of the Chi-Lites dies. |
| 12 | years ago | 2014 | The Wall Street Journal reports Sony has reintroduced the Walkman in Japan. Unlike the portable cassette player that debuted 35 years ago, the ZX-1 is manually carved from a block of aluminum and sells for $700. Aimed at high-end consumers, the ZX1 offers 128 gigabytes of storage for ultra-high-quality music files. Using expensive aluminum supposedly helps reduce noise. It sold out quickly in Japan the previous December, and went on sale in Europe and other parts of Asia in February. |
| 7 | years ago | 2019 | Art Neville, one of the Neville Brothers, dies at age 81. The native New Orleanian was part of a number of musical acts over his lifetime, including The Meters, who toured with The Rolling Stones, and served as the studio band for artists such as Patti Labelle. |