| 85 | years ago | 1941 | British folk singer-songwriter Roy Harper, and the subject of Led Zeppelin’s Hats Off to (Roy) Harper on its Led Zeppelin III album, is born near Manchester. |
| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Reg Presley of The Troggs is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Both Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos and Boston's Brad Delp are born. |
| 73 | years ago | 1953 | Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette is born. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Jerry Lee Lewis' Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On enters the national Country & Western chart. By the next week it will have made its debut on the national pop chart. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Chess/Checker records releases Chuck Berry's Chuck Berry on Top album, and Bo Diddley's Go Go Bo Diddley |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | John Linnell of They Might Be Giants is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Frankie Avalon starts a 15-day tour of South America. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones' landmark tune, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is released. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Linda Ronstadt gives a concert at the Tomorrowland stage at Disneyland, California, backed up by four musicians, playing together for the first time, who will create their own band, The Eagles. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono release Some Time In New York City, a two-record set full of self-conscious politicism that Lennon later regrets. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | CCR's Mardi Gras LP goes gold. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Almost five years after her death, Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, released in 1973, goes gold. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | Blues man Kenny Wayne Shepherd is born in Shreveport and starts playing guitar just seven years later. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Motown releases Diana Ross' Diana. It contains the songs Upside Down, (her first pop and R&B #1 hit in four years) and I'm Coming Out. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | About 1 million people, including Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt, gather in New York to rally for nuclear disarmament. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Graceland opens the Elvis Presley Autoland Museum, which contains over 20 cars owned by The King. |