| 84 | years ago | 1942 | Three Dog Night's Chuck Negron is born. |
| 82 | years ago | 1944 | It's the day Boz Scaggs entered the world. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Elvis Presley's seventh film, Wild in the Country premiers. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Duran Duran member Nick Rhodes is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | The group, The Essex releases Easier Said Than Done. It climbs to #1 on both the pop and R&B charts. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Rolling Stones release Jumpin' Jack Flash. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Brian Jones announces he is leaving The Rolling Stones because he didn't agree with the band's musical direction. Less than a month later he would be found dead in the swimming pool at his home. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | The group Yes loses member Rick Wakeman, who decides to go solo. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | A re-united Simon & Garfunkel leave for a nine date European tour starting at the Hippodrome d'Auteuil in Paris. It ends June 19th in London. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Noted vegetarian and Pretenders' leader Chrissie Hynde announces at a Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors conference in London that she once firebombed a McDonalds. The next day a British McDonalds restaurant is firebombed. The fast food chain threatens legal action against Hynde and asks her to sign a written document agreeing not to repeat her statements. She signs. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | Bruce Springsteen marries for the second time --- this time to fellow Jerseyite Patti Scialfa at their Beverly Hills mansion. It was Scialfa's first marriage. |
| 8 | years ago | 2018 | Danny Kirwan, the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist who played on five of the British band's albums, dies at the age of 68. |
| 6 | years ago | 2020 | Bonnie Pointer, who rose to fame as a member of the Pointer Sisters, dies at age 69. A representative said the cause of death was cardiac arrest. |