| 93 | years ago | 1932 | New York's famed Radio City Music Hall opens. |
| 83 | years ago | 1942 | Mike Pinder, keyboardist and vocalist for the Moody Blues, is born. |
| 82 | years ago | 1943 | Pete Quaife, bass player for the Kinks, is born. |
| 78 | years ago | 1947 | Mick Jones, guitar player for Foreigner, is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1960 | The Beatles, following their extended stay in Hamburg, Germany, play a “Welcome Home” concert in Liverpool. The group will return to Hamburg three times for engagements lasting a month or more. |
| 62 | years ago | 1963 | The music critics of the London Times names John Lennon and Paul McCartney as The Outstanding Composers of 1963. Two days later, the Sunday Times' music critic Richard Buckle proclaims the same two songwriters “the greatest composers since Beethoven.” |
| 54 | years ago | 1971 | The Sonny & Cher Show begins a four-and-a-half year run on CBS. |
| 50 | years ago | 1975 | The Four Seasons, December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) is released. |
| 47 | years ago | 1978 | The most auspicious debut in years is made by The Cars. The Boston-based band's first LP is the first new wave record to gain acceptance on FM album-oriented rock radio, which is still very fond of bands like Boston and Kansas. The Cars turns platinum on this date. |
| 46 | years ago | 1979 | Ian Dury and The Clash headline the second of four concerts for the people in Kampuchea, in London. |
| 45 | years ago | 1980 | Nearly three weeks to the day after John Lennon's murder, Lennon and Yoko Ono's Starting Over hits #1 in the U.S. and the U.K. simultaneously. |
| 44 | years ago | 1981 | Hoagland Howard “Hoagy” Carmichael, pianist, vocalist and songwriter dies of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California. He was a great raconteur of the early days of jazz and Ten Pan Alley. |
| 18 | years ago | 2007 | Marilyn Manson's divorce from burleque dancer Dita Von Teses is final. Their real names are Brian Warner and Heather Sweet, respectively. They married in November, 2005. Manson has been dating Evan Rachel Wood, the 20-year-old star of Thirteen and Across the Universe. |
| 16 | years ago | 2009 | Lady Gaga plays New Orleans’ Lakefront Arena. |
| 10 | years ago | 2015 | Lead singer of The Easybeats, Stevie Wright, dies the day after being taken to Moruya Hospital on the far south coast of New South Wales on Boxing Day. |