| 71 | years ago | 1954 | Pianist and singer Bruce Hornsby is born. |
| 66 | years ago | 1959 | RCA Records denies Elvis Presley will change his style when he leaves the army. “It just ain't true,” one spokesman remarks. |
| 61 | years ago | 1964 | The Rolling Stones show up late for the BBC radio shows, Top Gear and Saturday Club and are banned by the BBC. |
| 61 | years ago | 1964 | Beatles records released this week include the album The Beatles Story on Capitol and the single I Feel Fine backed with She's a Woman. |
| 59 | years ago | 1966 | Elvis Presley's 22nd film, Spinout, premieres in Los Angeles. The movie is another box-office success and critical disaster for Elvis. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | Rolling Stone quotes San Francisco's veteran disco jockey Tom Donahue: “Top Forty radio, as we know it today and have known it for the last ten years, is dead, and its rotting corpse is stinking up the airwaves.” |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | It's the end of an era: Rolling Stone reports San Francisco's Family Dog has lost its license to operate out of the Avalon Ballroom, site of the marathon dance concerts featuring the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and other psychedelic groups. |
| 54 | years ago | 1971 | The Chi-Lites' first R&B #1, Have You Seen Her, enters the R&B chart, The song goes to #3 on the Top 100 in December. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | According to Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger has been named to Women's Wear Daily's “Cat Pack” list. Also included is Henry Kissinger, Lord Snowden, Truman Capote, and Jackie Onassis Aristotle. |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | Gary Wright quits the group Spooky Tooth to go solo. Next year, he'll have two straight hits, Dream Weaver and Love is Alive. |
| 49 | years ago | 1976 | Police arrest Jerry Lee Lewis outside the gates of Graceland after he shows up for the second time that night and makes a scene, shouting, waving a pistol, and demanding to see Elvis Presley. After security guards call police, Lewis is found at his car with a .38 Derringer in hand; authorities charge him on counts of public intoxication and possesion of a weapon. |
| 46 | years ago | 1979 | Marianne Faithful, currently embarking on her second solo singing career, is picked-up at Oslo Airport in Norway for possession of marijuana. |
| 36 | years ago | 1989 | Paul McCartney plays at the Great Western Forum for the first time since his Wings Over America tour in 1976. |
| 35 | years ago | 1990 | MTV bans Madonna's Justify My Love video. |