| 89 | years ago | 1937 | The Band’s Garth Hudson is born. |
| 85 | years ago | 1941 | Doris Kenner-Jackson of The Shirelles is born. So is Andrew Malcolm Steele of The Herd, a UK band in which Peter Frampton started his career. |
| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Kathy Lennon of The Lennon Sisters is born. |
| 83 | years ago | 1943 | John Cipollina, guitar player for Quicksilver Messenger, is born. |
| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Jim Capaldi, drummer and vocalist for Traffic, is born. |
| 76 | years ago | 1950 | Ted Turner of Wishbone Ash is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Andrew Gold is born. |
| 73 | years ago | 1953 | Skeeter Davis, still a member of the Davis Sisters, breaks both her arms and legs in a car crash near Cincinnati, Ohio, a crash which also kills fellow Davis “sister’ Betty Jack Davis. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | In an article called Elvis Presley...He can't be...But He Is, Look Magazine reports Presley records have grossed over $6 million and the singer receives over 3,000 fan letters a week. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | The Beatles begin their engagement as regular headliners at Liverpool's Cavern Club, where they'll perform about 300 times in the next two years. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Pete De Freitas of Echo And The Bunnymen is born. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | An obscure folk singer named Robert Zimmerman has his name legally changed to Bob Dylan. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Aretha Franklin makes her television debut, singing Don't Cry Baby and Try A Little Tenderness on ABC's American Bandstand. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Still rebuilding his career after the scandal of his marriage to 13-year-old second cousin Myra Gale Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis accepts $9,500 to open Las Vegas' new Thunderbird Hotel. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Eric Clapton quits the band, The Roosters, to form Casey Jones and the Engineers. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The Kinks open for The Beatles at the Gaumont Cinema in England. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Bob Dylan shows up unexpectedly to his 10-year high school reunion in Hibbing, Minnesota. He and his wife leave early when a drunk tries to pick a fight with him. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Bob Dylan leaves his 10-year reunion at Hibbing High School in Hibbing, Minnesota when a drunken former classmate picks a fight with him. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Badfinger records Come And Get It. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Zelma Davis of C & C Music Factory is born. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Now down to a trio and torn by infighting, Creedence Clearwater Revival embark on their last US tour with a gig at Tulsa, Oklahoma's Assembly Center. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Brian Cole, an original member of the Association, dies of a heroin overdose. He played bass on the hits Windy, Cherish and Never My Love. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | "Papa" John Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas files suit against his former label, Dunhill, alleging $60 million in unpaid royalties. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Funeral services are held in Hollywood for Mama Cass Elliot. Among those in attendance are John and Michelle Phillips, Lou Adler, and Sonny Bono. Cass Elliot's body was cremated and her ashes were buried in Maryland. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | One Of These Nights by the Eagles hits #1 on the pop chart, while Lynyrd Skynyrd's Saturday Night Special peaks at #27. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Deepest Purple becomes Deep Purple's third #1 album. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Veteran Latin folk-pop singer Jose Feliciano weds Susan Omillian in California. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Jose Feliciano marries Susan Omillian in California. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | James Jamerson, the uncredited bassist on most of the 60's and 70's Motown hits, dies. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | David Martin of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs dies. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Billy Joel plays a concert in Leningrad. Audience members carry Joel out on their shoulders at the end. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | While performing his song Don Henley Must Die at an Austin nightclub, the psychobilly artist Mojo Nixon is surprised when Henley, who happened to be in the neighborhood, climbs up on stage and starts beatboxing along with it. Nixon says it was the first time in his life he was left speechless. Henley seeing the humor in the song forces his critics to rethink what they perceive as his earnest arrogance. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | The Beatles win UK music magazine Mojo's “Favourite Recording Artist Of All Time,” beating out Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Queen, and Elton John, in that order. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | After a concert in San Diego, California, Barry White is hospitalized for exhaustion. |
| 25 | years ago | 2001 | Ron Townson of The 5th Dimension dies. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Eric Clapton bails out Cordings clothing store in London, a favorite of his since the age of sixteen, by purchasing a fifty percent share in the retailer. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | Elvis Presley Enterprises announces plans to revamp Graceland, the singer’s home, with a visitor’s center, convention hotel, and high-tech multimedia displays. |
| 17 | years ago | 2009 | Rockabilly songwriter and performer Billy Lee Riley dies. Red Hot was one of his tunes covered by Robert Gordon and Link Wray in 1978. |
| 7 | years ago | 2019 | The death of Kinks' keyboardist Ian Gibbons is announced. He had joined the Kinks for their comeback period in the early 80's and beyond. |