| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Rose Stone of Sly and the Family Stone is born. |
| 77 | years ago | 1949 | Eddie Money is born |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Conrad Lozano of Los Lobos is born, as is Russel Thompkins, Jr. of The Stylistics.. |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Roger Hodgson, guitar player with Supertramp, is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | The Beatles play Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | For the first time in British recording history, all Top Ten singles in the U.K. are by British acts. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Jonas “Joker” Berggren of Ace of Base is born, as is MC Maxim of Prodigy. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Sister Hazel’s Andrew Copeland is born. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | The re-formed Faces, with singer Rod Stewart, release their debut LP, First Step. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | ABC by the Jackson Five is released. The song is the group's second hit and also their second hit to go to #1. This one stays there for two weeks. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | British punk rockers the Jam enter the U.K. singles chart at #1 with Going Underground. It's the first single to enter the singles chart there at the top spot since Gary Glitter's I Love You Love Me Love in 1973. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | New wave pop rockers, Blondie, enter the soul LPs chart with Autoamerican, which peaks at #7 in 25 weeks on the chart. It has climbed to #7 on the pop chart. One song off the album, Rapture is one of the first big crossover raps hits. It's goes to #1 for two weeks and another tune The Tide is High makes to the head of the class as well. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | ZZ Top plays the last show on their 14 month Afterburner tour in Honolulu. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Madonna's Like A Prayer LP is released. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | The man who invented the electric guitar, Leo Fender, dies. |
| 32 | years ago | 1994 | Bruce Springsteen wins an Oscar for Best Original Song for Streets Of Philadelphia, a song from the film Philadelphia. |