| 78 | years ago | 1947 | Peter Criss, drummer for KISS, is born. |
| 68 | years ago | 1957 | Elvis Presley receives his draft notice. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | In Blackpool, England, two recently departed members of the John Evans Blues Band, vocalist Ian Anderson and bassist Glenn Cornick, form Jethro Tull, naming their group after the 18th century inventor of a number of farm implements. Evans will later rejoin them as Jethro Tull's keyboard player. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | The Hollies' He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother) is released. |
| 52 | years ago | 1973 | Bobby Darin, one of the few teen idols of the '50s to survive the '60s and early '70s, dies of heart failure. It occurs during Darin's second open-heart surgery in two years. He left a string of hits: 14 Top Twenty singles between 1958 and 1966. The tune most often associated with him is Mack the Knife, which was #1 for nine weeks in 1959. Bobby Darin was 37. |
| 50 | years ago | 1975 | Eric Carmen's All By Myself and Paul Simon's 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover are released. |
| 50 | years ago | 1975 | Guitarist Joe Walsh joins forces with The Eagles, replacing original member Bernie Leadon, who leaves for a solo career. |
| 21 | years ago | 2004 | Roberta Flack tells the New York Post that she plans to transform two abandoned brownstones in Harlem into a school of music, complete with permanent faculty, a recording studio, a performance café, and free liberal arts classes for talented students. “I had such good teachers when I was young. I just wanted to give some of that back,” she tells the paper. |