| 84 | years ago | 1942 | Isaac Hayes is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk is born. |
| 79 | years ago | 1947 | Jim Pankow, trombonist and songwriter with Chicago, is born. |
| 78 | years ago | 1948 | Led Zeppelin's singer Robert Plant is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Phyl Lynott, bassist and singer with Thin Lizzy, is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1952 | Doug Fieger, guitarist and singer with The Knack, is born, as is singer-songwriter John Hiatt. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | Bo Diddley appears at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. |
| 66 | years ago | 1960 | Connie Francis begins working on her acting debut, as filming for MGM's Where the Boys Are starts in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Heavy metal rocker Rick Rael is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | The Rolling Stones appear at The Star & Garter Hotel, in Windsor, England. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Shirley Bassey records Goldfinger. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones release Satisfaction, still heralded as one of the greatest rock songs ever. It is their first #1 U. S. hit. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Andrew Loog Oldham launches the Immediate Label, home of The Small Faces, Nice, and Chris Farlowe. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Dimebag Darrell of Pantera is born. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes enters Billboard's Top 40. It soon spends two weeks at #1 and is their seventh #1 Five more will follow. It stays on the Hot 100 chart for 13 weeks. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Temptations' Beauty Is Only Skin Deep is released. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | The New York Times reports about a new noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's new subsidiary, Checkmate Records, will be the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The director of the University of Tennessee's audio lab, Dr. David M. Lipscomb, reports a guinea pig subjected over a three month period to 88 hours of rock music recorded at a Knoxville disco at 120 decibels suffered acute damage to the inner ears. The New York Times is told by Steve Paul, owner of the New York disco, The Scene, “Should a major increase in guinea pig attendance occur at the Scene, we'll certainly bear their comfort in mind.” |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Bobby Darin sells his music publishing company for a million dollars. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Frank Zappa disbands the Mothers of Invention right after an eight-day tour in Canada. Zappa says he's “tired of playing for people who clap for all the wrong reasons.” |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Andy Williams receives a gold record for the album Happy Heart on Columbia Records. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst is born. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | The Rolling Stones release Angie. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | The Emotions start a five-week run at #1 on the singles chart with Best Of My Love. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | John Lennon begins recording his final album, Double Fantasy. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band perform a benefit concert for Vietnam veterans at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | Rick Allen drummer with Def Leppard makes his first live appearance with the band at Donington in Great Britain after losing an arm in a car accident. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Lindsay Buckingham quits Fleetwood Mac. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Two rock fans die while “slam dancing” as Guns N' Roses plays at the Monsters Of Rock Festival in Great Britain. |
| 36 | years ago | 1990 | Aerosmith appears at the Marquee Club in London. Jimmy Page joins the Band on stage for a blues jam. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | Blues Traveler bassist Bobby Sheehan is found dead in his New Orleans apartment. He was 31. |
| 26 | years ago | 2000 | Janet Jackson goes to #1 on the singles chart with Doesn't Really Matter. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, is denied entry to Hong Kong after refusing to return to England. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | Former Guns 'n' Roses drummer Steve Adler pleads innocent to drug charges in Los Angeles and remains in rehab. |
| 10 | years ago | 2016 | The Gulf Coast’s Matt Roberts, age 38, former lead guitarist for 3 Doors Down, passes away in West Bend, Wisconsin. |