| 70 | years ago | 1956 | American Idol judge Randy Jackson is born. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Motown Records releases Tracks Of My Tears by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. The same song will be a hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1976. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Rolling Stones depart London for their third U.S. tour only two weeks after Mick Jagger was hospitalized after collapsing from exhaustion at the end of huge tours of Australia and Europe. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Arthur Conley receives a gold record for his first hit, Sweet Soul Music. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | John Entwistle of The Who marries Alison Wise. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Singer Chico DeBarge is born. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Twist king Chubby Checker and three others are arrested in Niagara Falls after marijuana and unidentified drug capsules are found in Checker's car. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | The potential danger of performing rock at big arenas is realized by Alice Cooper, who falls off the set of his Welcome To My Nightmare tour in Vancouver. He breaks six ribs. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Jefferson Starship releases the album Red Octopus. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Paul McCartney and Wings complete their Wings Over America tour at the Forum in Los Angeles. At a Forum show two days earlier, Ringo Starr appears on stage during the band's final number and presents Paul with flowers. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Supertramp's album Breakfast in America ends the week on top of the U.S. album chart. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | Van Halen releases the single Panama. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | New Kids on the Block are nearly thrown out of a hotel in Anaheim after they are caught throwing balloons filled with Kool-Aid at guests. |
| 36 | years ago | 1990 | Actor Gary Busey, who played Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story, pays $242,000 for one of Holly's guitars at an auction in New York. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | CBS News anchor Dan Rather joins R.E.M. onstage at Madison Square Garden during a sound check to perform What's The Frequency, Kenneth? which refers to a bizarre incident years before when Rather was beaten up by thugs demanding the answer to the question. The performance was shown on David Letterman's The Late Show. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | American Idol winner Carrie Underwood’s Inside Your Heaven sells 170,000 copies in its first week and debuts at #1 on The Billboard Hot 100, the Pop 100, singles sales, and country single sales charts. It's the first time in Billboard history that a country song has debutted at #1. And the single won't be released for radio station play until July 5th. |