| 76 | years ago | 1950 | Dave Peveret with Foghat is born. |
| 73 | years ago | 1953 | Terre Roche of The Roches is born. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Nat “King” Cole is attacked and severely beaten by a group of racial segregationists while singing onstage at the Municipal Hall in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Steven Gustafson, one of 10,000 Maniacs, is born. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Stray Cats guitarist/songwriter Brian Setzer is born. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Stuart Sutcliffe, an original member of The Beatles, dies of cerebral paralysis cause by a brain hemorrhage in Hamburg, Germany. Sutcliffe met John Lennon when the two were at art school. Sutcliffe introduced Lennon to modern art and literature, and Lennon introduced Sutcliffe to rock & roll. He joined The Beatles and played bass (Paul McCartney was on rhythm guitar at the time). He left the band in 1961 to resumed painting because his headaches were getting too bad. By then, he had given The Beatles the look that would soon charm the world, shaggy, brushed-forward hairstyles. Stuart Sutcliffe was 22 years old. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | British Invasion band Freddie and the Dreamers hit #1 in the U.S. with I'm Telling You Now. Their only other hit, the dance song Do the Freddie would hit #18 on the pop chart within several weeks. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Bobbie Smith of The Spinners is born. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Rolling Stone reports Mickey Hart has joined the Grateful Dead at the invitation of drummer Bill Kreutzmann. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | At a concert in Boston, Doors singer Jim Morrison asks the audience if “anyone wants to see my genitals” just after a brief power failure. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | The Doors' Love Her Madly is released. It eventually hits #11. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Led Zeppelin get a gold record for Houses of the Holy, the first of their five LPs without an eponymous title. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Paul McCartney's Silly Love Songs is released. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott marries Peggy Sue Fender in London. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Ebony and Ivory a duet by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, debuts on the U.S. charts at #29. It will go to the top of the charts, reaching #1 in both the U.S. and U.K., and becoming Wonder's first British #1. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | Mandy Moore is born. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | Here, There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda, a charity tribute concert for the late Linda McCartney is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Among the performers are Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor, and George Michael. Proceeds raised funds for animal rights causes. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers appear as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live with actor John Goodman as host. Petty plays two cuts from his Echo album. This is the second time that Petty and Goodman appear on SNL together. This first time was in 1991. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | 188 people do the twist as Chubby Checker performs his 1960 and 1962 hit, The Twist, live at a dance event sponsored by WWXM-FM in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It is an attempt to get a Guinness World Record for the most people participating in a dance. The book listed no such record previously. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Kid Rock treats a few Anderson, South Carolina residents to a private showing of a new movie starring his friend David Spade, Benchwarmers. He rents a movie theatre so those on his tour bus and a few locals can see the film. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Jennifer Lopez files suit against ex-husband Ojani Noa, saying he demanded $5 million not to publish a book containing private details about the star and their relationship. |
| 8 | years ago | 2018 | Yvonne Staples, who provided background vocals for her family’s hit-making pop and soul group, the Staple Singers, while taking the lead in managing its business affairs, dies of cancer at her home in Chicago. She was 80.
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