| 84 | years ago | 1942 | Graeme Edge, drummer with the Moody Blues, is born. |
| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Eric Clapton, guitarist and vocalist with Cream, Derek & the Dominoes, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, and the Yardbirds, is born. |
| 66 | years ago | 1960 | Representative Thomas O'Neill (of Massachusetts) wants the Federal Communications Commission to investigate all radio station employees involved in payola and report them to Congress. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | M. C. Hammer is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman is born. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | At the Rolling Stones' concert at the Olympia in Paris, 85 audience members are arrested after the crowd's heated reaction to the Stones gets out of hand. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Yardbirds perform and record what will become Live Yardbirds at the Anderson Theater. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | The British punk group the Sex Pistols play their first show at London's 100 club, attracting only a reported 50 people to the venue where they would begin a weekly residency in June. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | The Eagles' Hotel California sits atop the Billboard LP Chart. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Paul Simonon and Topper Headon of the Clash are arrested in London for shooting pigeons from the roof of a rehearsal hall. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Genesis' England By The Pound is released. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Gladys Knight performs solo for the first time since grammar school without The Pips during a gig at Bally's in Las Vegas. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | New Orleans rapper Master P pleads innocent in Los Angeles to a felony charge of carrying unregistered loaded guns after his arrest two months previously while riding in a car driven by his brother Vyshonn King Miller, a 20-year-old singer known as “Silkk the Shocker.” Meanwhile, a third brother, Corey Miller, a.k.a. C-Murder, is appealing a 2003 second degree murder conviction and mandatory life sentence for shooting a 16-year-old boy at a New Orleans area nightclub. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | Entertainment Tonight reports Marie Osmond and husband Brian Blosil are getting divorced. The couple says, "Though our marriage is ending, we continue to have a very amicable relationship." Osmond and Blosil married in October 1986 and have eight children. They were briefly separated in 2000 after Osmond suffered a bout of post-partum depression. She later wrote a book about her experience, Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression. |