| 79 years ago (1945) | Stu Cook, bassist with Creedence Clearwater Revival, is born. |
| 60 years ago (1964) | Erasure’s Andy Bell is born. |
| 60 years ago (1964) | Dionne Warwick's Walk on By enters the Hot 100. Her fifth and thus far biggest hit will eventually get to #6 on the chart for 13 weeks. |
| 60 years ago (1964) | Peter and Gordon reach #1 on the U.K. pop chart with World without Love, a song composed by Paul McCartney of The Beatles. |
| 56 years ago (1968) | The Beatles refuse to perform for the Queen of England at a British Olympic Appeal Fund show. Ringo Starr explains, “Our decision would be the same no matter what the cause. We don't do benefits.” |
| 54 years ago (1970) | After playing a concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, where men in the crowd taunted the interracial band with racial insults. Pacific Gas and Electric is shot at as its van leaves the club. Four bullets hit the vehicle but no one is hurt. |
| 50 years ago (1974) | Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, dies in her Hollywood apartment. Police think she's been using heroin for about a year and speculate she died of an overdose. She was 27 years old. |
| 50 years ago (1974) | According to Rolling Stone, thanks to Ray Stevens' hit, The Streak, streakers have hit concerts by Yes, Gregg Allman, and the Beach Boys, who were victimized by two of their very own -- Mike Love and Dennis Wilson. |
| 50 years ago (1974) | Gregg Allman plays the last date of his solo tour. “I want to squelch a few rumor right now,” he tells the Cincinnati audience before bringing on the rest of the Allman Brothers Band for a 90-minute encore. |
| 47 years ago (1977) | At a concert at the Saginaw, Michigan Civic Center, Elvis Presley makes what will be the last recordings of his life. Three songs from the show will appear, in heavily overdubbed mixes, on the posthumously released Presley album, Moody Blue. |
| 45 years ago (1979) | The film Rock & Roll High School starring the Ramones premiers. |
| 43 years ago (1981) | With the departure of signer/guitarist Denny Laine, (former member of the Moody Blues) Paul McCartney's backing band, Wings, breaks up. |
| 34 years ago (1990) | The Fender Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix used to perform the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock is auctioned off in London for a then-record $295,000. |
| 30 years ago (1994) | Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a TV cameraman during memorial services for actor River Phoenix the previous November 4. |
| 27 years ago (1997) | U2 kicks off its PopMart tour in Las Vegas. |
| 24 years ago (2000) | Eric Clapton reunites with former Derek & the Dominos keyboard player Bobby Whitlock for their first performance together in 29 years on the BBC2 TV series Later With Jools Holland. The two play three songs, including Bell Bottom Blues. The show airs on April 29. |
| 19 years ago (2005) | The Mirror, a British tabloid, reports that Elton John will marry his 42-year-old Canadian partner, David Furnish, later this year or early next year. A new British law grants same-sex couples the same tax, pension, and inheritance status as heterosexual married couples. |
| 12 years ago (2012) | Britney Spears fiancé, Jason Trawick, begins sharing legal power over her affairs with her dad, Jamie, per the judge in her conservatorship case. |