| 70 | years ago | 1956 | The Five Satins make their debut on the R&B charts with a song they recorded in a New Haven, Connecticut church basement, In The Still of the Night. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Elvis begins work on his first movie, Love Me Tender. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Former Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Tears For Fears member Roland Orzabal and Bangles drummer Debbie Peterson are born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Debbi Peterson of The Bangles is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Singer Tori Amos is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Martha & The Vandellas' Dancing In The Streets is released. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Liberty Records reports the album, The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles is selling 25,000 copies a day. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Jerry Lee Lewis is signed to play Iago in Catch My Soul, a rock version of Shakespeare's Othello. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Cynthia Powell Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on the grounds of adultery. She came back from a vacation and found Yoko Ono living in the Lennon's London home. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | The Beatles film a film short for The Long and Winding Road. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Elvis Presley announces the six date itinerary of his first tour since 1958. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Derek and the Dominoes begin work on their first and only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Creedence Clearwater Revival's Cosmo's Factory LP hits #1, a position it would hold for nine weeks. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Elton John signs to MCA Records. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Howie Dorough of Backstreet Boys is born. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | Peter Frampton plays the first of three sold out shows at Madison Square Garden. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Simple Plan’s Jeff Stinco is born. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Led Zeppelin releases what turns out to be their last album together, In Through The Out Door. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Bruce Springsteen hops on stage with Levon Helm during Helm's show at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J. They do Up On Cripple Creek and Little Richard's, Lucille. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Suzanne Vega's Luka peaks at #3 on the pop chart. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Sting marries his girlfriend of 10 years, Trudi Styler. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | Elton John, playing the second of two shows at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, is joined on stage by comedian Jim Carrey. They perform Rocket Man as a duet. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | Sporty Spice of The Spice Girls, Melanie Chisolm announces she's pregnant at age 34. She will be the last of the Spice Girls to become a mother. The father is her partner of six years, Thomas Starr. |
| 8 | years ago | 2018 | Ed King dies of cancer at his Nashville home. A founding member of Lynyrd Skynrd, King, 68, played guitar in that band from 1972-75 and 1987-1996. He co-wrote their classic Sweet Home Alabama, and that's his voice counting off the “One, two, three...” that launches the song. A California native, King was also a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock, and co-wrote their 1968 hit, Incense and Peppermints. |