| 91 | years ago | 1935 | Bluesman James Cotton is born. |
| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Blondie's Deborah Harry is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | B-52's lead singer Fred Schneider is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1952 | Blues Brother and John Belushi cohort Dan Aykroyd is born. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Elvis appears on The Steve Allen Show. He is told not to dance and Allen has him sing Hound Dog to a real basset hound wearing tails. The next day, teenagers picket against NBC with signs reading: “We Want the Real Elvis!.” |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | From a front page Billboard article, “Good music may be making a comeback on the bestseller charts...but rock & roll discs continue to dominate the pop market.”. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | She Loves You and I'll Get You are recorded at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London by The Beatles. She Loves You will be released on August 23rd and will be the group's second U.K. #1 hit. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The race is on and United Artists wins as it rushes advance copies of the A Hard Days Night soundtrack to radio stations. Capitol was getting ready to release an album with the seven songs featured in the film. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | After Mick Jagger's drug conviction, an editorial from the London Times' W.E. Rees-Moog reads, “It should be a particular quality of British justice to ensure that Mr. Jagger is treated exactly the same as anyone else, no better and no worse. There must remain a suspicion in this case that Mr. Jagger received a more severe sentence than would have been thought proper for any purely anonymous young man.” |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Sam Phillips sells Sun Records. The Memphis label released the first recordings of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Ike Turner, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Conway Twitty, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | John Lennon and his son Julian, along with Yoko Ono and her daughter Kyoko, are injured in car crash in Scotland. John receives 17 stitches for facial injury, Yoko receives 14 stitches, and the children suffer from shock. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Casey Kasem's American Top-Forty AM radio show debuts in Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, San Bernardino, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Honolulu and Albany. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Jethro Tull's first U.S. top-10 hit, Aqualung, goes gold. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Hip-hopper Missy Elliot is born |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | David Bowie begins work on his first film role in The Man Who Fell To Earth. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Captain & Tennille get their first gold record with Love Will Keep Us Together. The album will eventually sell 2-1/2 million copies and win a Grammy for Record of the Year. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Foreigner's Hot Blooded is released. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Filming is over for the movie, Carney, the first theatrical film Robbie Robertson of The Band has been involved with since The Band split up. He produced and co-wrote the script and even co-starred with Jody Foster and Gary Busey. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Steppenwolf bassist Rushton Moreve, who co-wrote Magic Carpet Ride with John Kay, dies in a car crash at age 32. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Fleetwood Mac's Tango LP is certified platinum while Van Halen's 1984 and ZZ Top's Eliminator reach sales of 6 million. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | The Grateful Dead's In The Dark LP is released. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Michael Green, midday jock at WTIX-AM in the late 60’s, and program director and morning man at WIXO, New Orleans in the early 70’s, dies. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Legendary DJ Wolfman Jack dies of a heart attack at age 57 at his home in Belvidere, North Carolina. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | Blues Traveler front man John Popper checks into a Los Angeles hospital complaining of chest pains. An angioplasty is performed, and the band's appearances for the month are postponed. He is released from the hospital four days later. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | A Beatles interview from the 1960’s in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney discuss the way they compose songs together is broadcast by the BBC after it was found in a film can in a damp garage in south London by film historian Richard Jeffs. Only the audio portion of the April 30, 1964 interview recorded by Scottish Television was usable. The interview was originally seen only in Scotland. |