| 84 | years ago | 1942 | Clarence Clemons, saxophone player with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, is born. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Vicki Peterson of The Bangles is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens its doors on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, the first rock club in the city. In the next decade and beyond, the Whiskey will be a popular meeting place for the record industry and a good place to be seen if you want to get into the industry. The Doors, among others, got their start there. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | British Invasion band Herman's Hermits receive a gold record for the album The Best of Herman's Hermits. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Daily Mirror of London reports Jimi Hendrix has moved into the London townhouse where George Frederick Handel is believed to have composed Water Music and the Messiah. Hendrix assures the newspaper that he will also compose in the Handel house and not let the tradition down. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Jethro Tull's debut album, This Was is released. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | No Doubt's Tom Dumont is born. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers is born. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Paul Simon becomes the first international star to perform in South Africa following the end of the UN cultural boycott. He began a concert tour in Johannesburg. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | At the American Music Awards, Billy Joel is given the Special Award of Merit for his inspired songwriting skills and exciting showmanship. Also at the show, Blondie (with four of the original members: Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Jimmy Destri, and Clem Burke) perform on stage with rapper Coolio singing the band's No Exit. |
| 26 | years ago | 2000 | Gary Glitter is released from prison in Britain after serving half of a four month sentence on child pornography charges. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Jimmy Griffin, guitarist and harmony vocalist with Bread, dies at his Franklin, Tennessee home of complications from lung cancer at the age of 61. And Spencer Dryden, drummer for Jefferson Airplane, also dies the same day in Petaluma, California of stomach cancer. He was 66. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | After almost four years together, actress Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake call it quits. Diaz, 34, and Timberlake, 25, met in April 2003 at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and by July, Diaz had joined her new beau on the road as he toured with Christina Aguilera. A former 'N Sync-er, Timberlake previously dated Britney Spears. |
| 17 | years ago | 2009 | The first of occasional op-ed columns written by U2’s Bono appears in the Sunday New York Times. |