| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Chuck Winfield, trumpet player for Blood, Sweat & Tears, is born. |
| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Al Kooper, keyboardist for Blood, Sweat & Tears, is born. |
| 77 | years ago | 1949 | Nigel Olsson, drummer for Elton John, is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | WNEW Radio in New York City announces the results of its annual music popularity poll. The winners are Perry Como, Patti Page, the Crew-Cuts, and Ray Anthony. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Two big influences of '60s pop make their debuts: Mary Wells' with Bye Bye Baby and Gene Pitney with Love My Life Away. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Guns N' Roses rocker Duff McKagan is born. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Surf-rockers the Marketts enter the Hot 100 for the fifth and last time with the Batman Theme. It reaches #17 in nine weeks on the charts. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Sergeant Barry Sadler's The Ballad of the Green Berets enters the low reaches of the pop chart. It climbs quickly all the way to #1 and stays on the chart for 13 weeks. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | The British tabloid News of the World runs the headline “Pop Stars and Drugs -- Facts that Will Shock You.” The story reports on LSD parties put on by The Moody Blues and attended by Pete Townsend, Ginger Baker, and others. The story quotes Mick Jagger admitting to having used LSD, and claims Jagger took Benzedrine tablets and displayed a quantity of hashish while in the reporter's company. That afternoon, Jagger says his lawyers will file a writ against the tabloid. It's revealed that the News reporter overheard Brian Jones talking about drugs in a London disco and mistook him for Jagger. The suit starts a feud between the tabloid and the band which leads to a police raid on Keith Richards' home five days later. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | The Beatles Yellow Submarine album, the soundtrack to the animated film of that name, is awarded a gold record. The album contains only four previously unreleased Beatles songs: Harrison's It's All Too Much and Only a Northern Song, and Lennon and McCartney's Hey Bulldog and All Together Now. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Paul Simon releases his first new song without Art Garfunkel, Mother and Child Reunion. It becomes a Top Five hit. The LP, Paul Simon, does well, reaching #4. The second hit off the record Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, turns out to be one of quirkiest songs of the year. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Neil Young's Heart Of Gold is released. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Elton John's Crocodile Rock goes gold. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | The Pointer Sisters' version of Bruce Springsteen's Fire turns gold the same month as it reaches #2. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks, 21-10, in Super Bowl XL, played in Detroit. Football fans are treated to a halftime show by the Rolling Stones. Stevie Wonder performs before the game, and Detroit's Aretha Franklin teams with New Orleans' Aaron Neville, Dr. John, and a 150-member choir on the National Anthem. |
| 16 | years ago | 2010 | Justin Timberlake is roasted as Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. |
| 14 | years ago | 2012 | Madonna performs at the halftime show for Superbowl 46 between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. And exactly as predicted by John Travolta before the game, the Giants win, 37-34. |
| 9 | years ago | 2017 | Clevelander Sonny Geraci, best known as the former lead singer of rock groups The Outsiders and Climax, dies at age 69. |
| 9 | years ago | 2017 | Lady Gaga and some 100 drones light up the Houston night sky for the Super Bowl LI halftime show at NRG Stadium. The Atlanta Falcons lead at the half, 28-3, but the New England Patriots come back to win 34-28 in overtime. It's quarterback Tom Brady's fifth Super Bowl win. The Falcons are still without a Super Bowl ring. |