| 86 | years ago | 1940 | Joey Dee of Peppermint Twist fame is born. |
| 77 | years ago | 1949 | ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1952 | .38 Special’s Donnie Van Zant is born. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Jerry Lee Lewis performs one of two scheduled shows at a New York City club. He goes home before the second show because the press had been openly hostile toward him and the ticket sales had been poor. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | It's announced that The Beatles will receive MBE awards from Queen Elizabeth in October. This sparks controversy and some previous winners turn their medals in. John Lennon returns his in 1969 protesting Britain's support of the U.S.'s involvement in Vietnam. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones release the live album, Got Live If You Want It. The screams from the audience nearly drowned out the music. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | European radio stations report that The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey is dead. In actuality, it was guitarist Pete Townshend who was only injured in a car accident a few days earlier. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Janis Joplin performs with Big Brother for the first time at a show in San Francisco. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | A fire breaks out in London's Olympic Studios where the Rolling Stones are recording their Beggar's Banquet LP. No one in injured. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Santana's ninth album, Amigos, goes gold. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Wild Cherry's single Play That Funky Music is released. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Tai Anderson of Third Day is born. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Rolling Stone Records releases the groups' latest album, Some Girls. Once again controversy comes upon them because of their lyrics...Could they have been talking about lyrics such as “...black girls just like to f*** all night”?. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | The Ike and Tina Turner film biography What's Love Got To Do With It, opens nationally. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Courtney Love, former wife of Kurt Cobain and leader of the group Hole, is hospitalized in Seattle after passing out on a flight. She had a reaction to prescription medicine. |