| 86 years ago (1936) | Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is born. |
| 85 years ago (1937) | Singer Trini Lopez is born. |
| 74 years ago (1948) | Singer/songwriter and producer Brian Eno is born. |
| 69 years ago (1953) | Musician-composer Mike Oldfield is born. |
| 65 years ago (1957) | Mercury Records signs the Del-Vikings, whose Come and Go With Me, was a hit for the small independent label. |
| 59 years ago (1963) | The winners of the fifth annual Grammy Awards are announced. Record of the Year is Tony Bennett's I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Peter, Paul and Mary's If I Had a Hammer wins both Best Performance by a Vocal Group and Best Folk Recording. |
| 57 years ago (1965) | The Byrds enter the Hot 100 for the first time with an electric version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man. It will peak at #1 after 13 weeks on the charts. The song's success prompts Dylan to go electric as well. |
| 55 years ago (1967) | Paul McCartney meets future wife Linda Eastman at the Bag O' Nails club in London. McCartney was there to see Georgie Fame perform. |
| 52 years ago (1970) | Pink Floyd play at the Crystal Palace Bowl in London. Performing in front of a large lake, a number of fish are killed by the loud music. |
| 51 years ago (1971) | Two John Lennon and Yoko Ono films are screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The first is Apotheosis, an 18-minute camera shot of a snowy countryside. Ono's Fly is a graphic exploration of a nude women's body by a fly. |
| 50 years ago (1972) | The Rolling Stones' 1972 U.S. tour encounters its first problem three weeks before it starts. A computer designed to handle ticket distribution of the San Francisco show over loads. It leaves thousands of fans waiting. Because of the foul-up it took twelve minutes to process each order. |
| 48 years ago (1974) | Frank Zappa and his wife announce the birth of their third child, a boy named Ahmet Rodan. He is named after the Japanese movie monster who lived mostly on a diet of 707 jets. |
| 48 years ago (1974) | Bill Wyman, the quiet Rolling Stone, releases his first solo album, Monkey Grip. It's the first solo LP by a member of the group. |
| 38 years ago (1984) | Just before the beginning of the Born in the U.S.A. world tour, guitarist Nils Lofgren joins Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Lofgren replaced “Miami” Steve Van Zandt. |
| 27 years ago (1995) | Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland is arrested after trying to buy drugs in a motel parking lot in Pasadena. |
| 22 years ago (2000) | Bob Dylan and violinist Isaac Stern each receive about $110,000 in Sweden as part of the Polar Music Prize for their contribution to music. |
| 2 years ago (2020) | Carlos Santana announces the death of his brother Jorge Santana on Facebook. Jorge was also a guitarist, and a member of the group Malo, who hit in 1972 with Suavecito. |