| 91 | years ago | 1934 | Pat Boone is born. |
| 78 | years ago | 1947 | Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1950 | Graham Russell of Air Supply is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1960 | Simon Gallup of The Cure is born. |
| 61 | years ago | 1964 | The Rolling Stones arrive in New York to begin their first U.S. tour. Their first gig is at a high school stadium near Boston. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP is released in Britain. Two days later it will be released in the States. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | Six months after quitting Traffic, guitarist and songwriter Dave Mason re-joins the group. He quits again that October. |
| 54 | years ago | 1971 | Elvis’ birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi is opened to the public. |
| 52 | years ago | 1973 | The James Bond thriller, Live and Let Die opens. The movie features the title track by Paul McCartney and Wings, as well as a boat chase filmed in Bayou Liberty near Slidell, Louisiana, and other scenes filmed in New Orleans. |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | Alanis Morissette is born. |
| 50 | years ago | 1975 | The Rolling Stones begin their first tour with new guitarist Ron Wood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
| 34 | years ago | 1991 | Ex-Temptation David Ruffin dies in Philadelphia of a cocaine overdose. Ruffin had sung lead vocal on some of the Temps biggest hits, My Girl and Ain't Too Proud Too Beg. |
| 26 | years ago | 1999 | Elton John performs at a benefit concert at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY on behalf of organizations preaching tolerance. The concert is held in the memory of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming student who was beaten and left for dead the year before. |
| 20 | years ago | 2005 | Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster tell People magazine that they are expecting a child. The rocker, 60, and his 34-year-old model-photographer fiancée, say that they postponed confirming earlier reports of the pregnancy until Lancaster reached her 12th week, so that they could notify family members. Stewart still needs a divorce from Rachel Hunter, with whom he had two children. The new baby due in December will make a total of six. He and Lancaster plan to wed next spring. The baby actually arrives November 27th. |
| 10 | years ago | 2015 | Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat, and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock ’n’ roll itself, dies at his home in Archer, Florida at age 79. |