| 82 | years ago | 1943 | Rick Danko, bass player for the Band, is born. He died in 1999. |
| 68 | years ago | 1957 | Teen hearthrob Donny Osmond is born. |
| 67 | years ago | 1958 | Nick Seymour of Crowded House is born. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | Jim Morrison is arrested onstage in New Haven, Connecticut. Backstage before the gig, Morrison mouthed off to a policeman, who responded by macing the singer. Later, during the concert while singing Back Door Man, Morrison delivered a tirade about the incident, which prompts police to turn on the house lights, pull Morrison offstage, and charge him with breach of peace and resisting arrest. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | Brian Bell of Weeezer is born. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | Jakob Dylan of Wallflowers is born. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | The all-star orchestral stage version of Tommy plays a one-night only performance at London's Rainbow Theatre and is unanimously panned. Of all the performers including Peter Sellers and Richie Havens, only Roger Daltrey and Steve Winwood acquit themselves in their respective roles as Tommy and Tommy's father. According to observers, narrator Pete Townshend appears to be drunk. The presentation is recorded and released, charting as high as #5 early next year. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | Capitol Records has its first #1 hit in more than four years: Helen Reddy's anthemic I Am Woman. The last Capitol act, besides The Beatles, to do as well was also a woman, Bobbie Gentry, whose #1 hit was Ode to Billy Joe in 1967. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | The Moody Blues attain their first U.S. #1 record, Seventh Sojourn. It will be their last album of new material for more than five years as the group's members go off to record and to tour as solo artists. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | Elton John's Crocodile Rock is released. |
| 52 | years ago | 1973 | Green Day's Tre Cool is born |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | The Who receives a gold record for Odds and Sods. It's a collection of oddities from the group’s tape archives. |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | George Harrison releases his first album on his Dark Horse label, called Dark Horse, which makes #4. |
| 47 | years ago | 1978 | John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd’s version of Sam & Dave’s Soul Man is released under the name, The Blues Brothers. |
| 34 | years ago | 1991 | After a long legal battle, Bob Marley’s $11.5 million estate is awarded to his wife Rita and her children. Ziggy Marley’s daughter is born on this day and he names her Justice in honor of the verdict. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | He had seen it all and done it all so Bill Wyman decides to call it quits. He leaves the Rolling Stones after over 30 years with the group. |
| 30 | years ago | 1995 | The Beatles’ Anthology Vol 1 hits the top of the charts. |
| 21 | years ago | 2004 | The Mississippi Supreme Court reopens litigation about who owns photographs and writings of seminal bluesman Robert Johnson, who died without a will in Leflore County, Mississippi in 1938. The question is whether Johnson’s illegitimate son Claud should get a cut of the royalties from his father's music and photos. |
| 21 | years ago | 2004 | “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, 38-year-old guitarist for Damageplan and Pantera, is killed along with five others during a shooting spree at a Columbus, Ohio, nightclub. Cops eventually shoot and kill the gunman, 25-year-old Nathan Gale of nearby Marysville, Ohio, but not before Damageplan bodyguard Jeff Thompson, fan Nathan Bray, and Erin Halk, who worked at the club, are killed. Gale also wounds three people. Damageplan had just begun their first song in front of approximately 250 people at Alrosa Villa when the gunman jumped onstage, made a comment about Pantera, and began firing at close range into Darrell's body, shooting him several times before opening fire on the crowd. |
| 6 | years ago | 2019 | Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies as the result of a brain tumor at age 61. |