| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Freddie Mercury, the late vocalist for Queen, is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | And I Love Her by The Beatles peaks at #12 on the pop singles chart while If I Fell peaks at #53. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The Animals' The House Of The Rising Sun hits #1 on the pop chart. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Manfred Mann's Do Wah Diddy Diddy is released. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones fly to Los Angeles to record Get Off My Cloud and other tunes. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Herbert Khaury, known better as Tiny Tim, sues Bouguet Records for $1 million in damages when the record label releases early recordings of Khaury whithout his permission. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen enters the LP charts. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | The London Art Spectrum, held at the Alexandria Palace, is the showcase for five of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's avant-garde films: Cold Turkey, The Ballad of John and Yoko, Give Peace a Chance, Instant Karma and Up Your Leg. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Stop Draggin' My Heart Around by Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks peaks at #3 on the singles chart; The Greg Kihn Band's The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em) peaks at #15 and Foreigner's Urgent peaks at #4. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Bruce Springsteen joins The Pretenders on stage in Pasadena for a version of (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing wins an MTV award for Best Video. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | American Bandstand is cancelled after 30 years on the air. |
| 36 | years ago | 1990 | B.B. King receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | R.E.M. wins 5 MTV Video Music awards, including video of the year for Losing My Religion. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | John Mellencamp and model Elaine Irwin get married at a cabin near Seymour, Indiana where Mellencamp grew up. They had met during the filming of his video, Get A Leg Up and she had appeared on the cover of his album, Whenever We Wanted. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Elton John's The One peaks at #8 on the LP charts. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | Guitarist Dave Navarro joins the Red Hot Chili Peppers. |
| 32 | years ago | 1994 | Rod Stewart and wife Rachael Hunter become parents to son Liam McAllister. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Capitol Records releases The Beatles Anthology video tape set -- which consists of 10 hours of material. |
| 15 | years ago | 2011 | Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin performs at Detroit's Renaissance Center before a Labor Day Speech by President Barack Obama. |
| 10 | years ago | 2016 | Maroon 5 performs in the sold-out Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on Labor Day. They unplug for “an analog moment of sorts,” during which Adam Levine asks audience members to stash their cellphones. For the most part, they do, as the band serves up the ballad She Will Be Loved. |
| 1 | years ago | 2025 | Mark Volman, vocalist for the Turtles and Mothers of Invention, dies at age 78. |