| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke is born. |
| 73 | years ago | 1953 | Hal Lindes of Dire Straits is born. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Beatles perform the first of three concerts at Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Amateur recordings of the performance quickly became available as a bootleg album known as Three Nights in Tokyo. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Better Than Ezra's Tom Drummond is born. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Paul Revere and the Raiders receive a gold record for their only #1 hit, Indian Reservation |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | The Eagles' album, One Of These Nights, goes gold. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Gregg Allman and Cher get married. Ten days later, they separate. After an on again, off again marriage, they divorce in January 1979. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Responding to a supposed report of burglary at Neil Diamond's house, police enter the singer's house with a search warrant. A 3-hour inspection turns up a grand total of less than one ounce of marijuana. It's so low key, Diamond gives several officers copies of his latest album, Beautiful Noise. His debut the next night at the new Alladin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas goes on as planned. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | Marvel Comics issues the first of two comic books based on the costumed characters of the group Kiss. The red ink was reportedly mixed with small amounts of blood from each group member. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | The Sex Pistols' My Way is released. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | 45-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis is rushed to Memphis Methodist Hospital to close a two centimeter hole in his stomach. Ten days later he will undergo surgery for internal bleeding. Johnny Cash joins “The Killer” in a moment of silent prayer at the latter's bedside. Lewis has less than a 50% chance of making it. He leaves the hospital in a few weeks. |
| 32 | years ago | 1994 | Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam testify before a congressional hearing concerning rising concert ticket prices. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | The Eric Clapton and Friends concert is held at Madison Square Garden in New York. Clapton performs with Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige and Bob Dylan. One of the shows highlights is a rendition of Crossroads by Clapton and Dylan. The concert raises $1 million for Clapton's drug rehab clinic in Antiqua. |
| 26 | years ago | 2000 | Nine people die and 24 are injured at Pearl Jam's portion of the Roskilde festival in Denmark after they are stampeded from people in the back who can’t hear the show because of broken speakers. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Dave Davies of The Kinks suffers a stroke and collapses while promoting his new solo album Bug. He is paralyzed on the right side of his body, but retains some feeling and can still hold a guitar pick. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Long-time Olivia Newton-John boyfriend, camera man Patrick Kim McDermott, 48, departs on an overnight fishing trip from Los Angeles. Nobody sees him get off the vessel when it returns the next day. His family reports him missing July 6 when he doesn't attend an event at which they expected him. The family subsequently discovers McDermott's vehicle still in a marina parking lot on July 11. Olivia asks the public for any informtion about him, and the Coast Guard investigates. Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper reports about a year later that he was seen at a $33-a-night Mexican beach shack with a “mystery blond woman.” |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | The Police play a 19-song, nearly 2-hour set in the New Orleans Arena with Fiction Plane, a band fronted by Sting’s son Joe Sumner, as the opening act. Not a single new song is on the Police set list, but the trio is tight with their old familiar stuff. |
| 16 | years ago | 2010 | A human genomics company announces that Ozzy Osbourne has asked to have his DNA mapped. Researchers say they'll try to determine why decades of alcohol and drug abuse haven't taken down the 61-year-old Prince of Darkness. He headlines the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans later in the year on Halloween. |