| 78 | years ago | 1948 | Glenn Frey, guitarist and vocalist for The Eagles, is born. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Bill Graham, who will become one of rock's most powerful entrepreneurs, produces his first rock concert at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. The show features the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and the Charlatans. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones, Strangeloves, and Fontella Bass appear on Shindig! |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | On the night of New York City's famous blackout, Bob Dylan, the Band's Robbie Robertson, and Dylan friend Bob Neuwirth jam with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in his suite at the New York Hiton. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Animals' It's My Life is released. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Deep Purple's Machine Head LP goes gold. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Singer Gram Parsons' manager Phil Kaufman is fined $300 for stealing Parsons' body from the Los Angeles International Airport. After he took the body, Kaufman had it cremated instead of taking it to the funeral. Kaufman claimed it was Parsons' wish to be cremated. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | The Sex Pistols play their first show at St. Martin's School of Art in London. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Paul Simon plays his first U.K. concert in five years, accompanied by studio-funk band Stuff, at London's Hammersmith Odeon. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Justin Timberlake, a former Mouseketeer and singer with N*SYNC, and girlfriend actress Cameron Diaz allegedly threaten two photographers near the famed Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles. Diaz is accused of running at one of the photographers, hitting him in the neck, then snatching his camera. She turns it into police later. According to the lawsuit filed a few weeks later, she also pushed and tried to grab the other photographer’s camera before the two paparazzi ran away, with Timberlake yelling after them, “Come and fight, you chickens.” |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | The Future of Music Coalition puts on a benefit concert at Tipitina's in New Orleans. Performers include country outlaw Steve Earle, R. E. M. bassist Mike Mills, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, rapper Boots Riley, Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello, Alabama singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, a.k.a. Mrs. Steve Earle, and local trombone collective Bonerama. Tony Clifton, the lounge singer from hell, belts out For Once in My Life with the all-star band, but not before his profane stand-up routine draws boos from the crowd of 250. Clifton is actually Comic Relief's Bob Zmuda, formerly the chief writer for the late comedian Andy Kaufman, who created the Clifton character. |