| 93 | years ago | 1933 | Singer/songwriter Buddy “Party Doll” Knox is born. |
| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist with Deep Purple and Rainbow, is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | Fats Domino's Ain't That A Shame is released. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | John Bell of Widespread Panic is born. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Millie Small appears on ABC-TV's Shindig! performing her smash My Boy Lollipop. Also on the show are Jerry Lee Lewis and Neil Sedaka. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Polydor Records releases the Bee Gees' first made-in England record, New York mining Disaster 1941. It was released with a promotional slogan announcing The Most Significant Talent Since The Beatles. The single goes #10 in the U.K. and #14 in the U.S. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin is born. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | David Bowie releases the first single from his conceptual The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -- Starman backed with Suffragette City. Ziggy will remain on the LP chart for more than a year and will finally break Bowie in the U.S. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Pete Townshend appears for the first time as a soloist. The leader of The Who performs at the benefit, accompanied only by his homemade tapes. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Having already received two gold records for the albums, The Captain and Me and What Once Were Vices Are Now Habits, the Doobie Brothers pick up their first gold single for their country flavored Black Water. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Motown Records and Stevie Wonder hold a news conference to announce he's signed a $13 million-plus contract with the label. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Bay City Rollers singer Eric Faulkner almost dies after swallowing Seconal and Valium tablets. The 21 year old, after recovering, admits to being very tired from the group's hectic schedule. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Dr. Hook's When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman is released. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | A New Jersey State assemblyman introduces a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run the official state song. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | The Knack release their second album just seven months after their first, Get the Knack. The second is titled ...but the little girls understand. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Gary Numan releases The Touring Principle, a 45 minute concert video. It is the first commercially available home rock videocassette. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Pete Townshend's Empty Glass LP is released. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | Pete Farndon of the Pretenders dies of a drug overdose. He had been fired from the band the year before because of his drug problem. He was 29 years old. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night is released. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever LP is released. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Burl Ives dies at his home in Anacortes, Washington. He was 85. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Outkast and civil rights protest pioneer Rosa Parks settle a dispute over the duo’s use of her name as the title of a song about the entertainment industry. The rap song includes a chorus that goes, “Ah-ha, hush that fuss. Everybody move to the back of the bus.” |
| 17 | years ago | 2009 | After about 30 hours of deliberation, a jury convicts music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago. He's sentenced to 19 years to life. |
| 11 | years ago | 2015 | Singer Percy Sledge dies in his Baton Rouge home at age 73. He topped the charts in 1966 with When a Man Loves a Woman. |