| 63 | years ago | 1962 | Brian Epstein brings The Beatles to the offices of the London Daily Mirror for an interview with Peter Jones, who concludes they are “a nothing group.” |
| 61 | years ago | 1964 | At Cleveland's Public Auditorium, The Beatles are ordered off the stage by authorities for fifteen minutes so that the screaming crowd can calm down. |
| 56 | years ago | 1969 | Ed Sullivan releases a rock & roll record, The Sulli-Gulli, by the Ed Sullivan Singers and Orchestra. And Deep Purple, with new vocalist Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover, perform Concerto for Rock Band and Orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Albert Hall. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | Vice-President Spiro Agnew says the youth of America are being “brainwashed into a drug culture” by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers. |
| 52 | years ago | 1973 | Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting peaks at #12 on the chart, and Rod Stewart's version of Sam Cooke's Twisting The Night Away peaks at #59. |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | Uriah Heep bassist Gary Thain is nearly electrocuted onstage during a show in Dallas. He survives but quits the group soon after. |
| 49 | years ago | 1976 | Steely Dan's fifth album, The Royal Scam, goes gold. Songs on it include The Fez and Kid Charlemagne. |
| 48 | years ago | 1977 | The Rolling Stones release their Love You Live LP. |
| 47 | years ago | 1978 | Bob Dylan starts his longest U.S. tour ever in Augusta, Maine. He will play 62 cities in three months. |
| 46 | years ago | 1979 | The Devil Went Down To Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band peaks at #3 on the pop singles chart. Bob Dylan releases his first religiously themed album, Slow Train Coming. And Swedish pop stars Abba play their first concert in what has to be the only continent in the civilized world where they aren't huge stars-North America. The show takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| 35 | years ago | 1990 | Bruce Hornsby begins filling in on keyboard for The Grateful Dead following the death of Brent Mydland. |
| 19 | years ago | 2006 | Elton John says his public feud with George Michael is over, and that the two “are fine.” Two years earlier, Elton had said the former Wham! star was miserable and needed to get out more. Michael took exception, saying John was no friend of his. |
| 18 | years ago | 2007 | Chrissie Hynde performs a free concert at the opening of her vegetarian restaurant in her hometown of Akron, Ohio. She lives in England, but has a partner from Canton for the restaurant venture. It features upscale Mediterranean and vegetarian cuisine. |
| 6 | years ago | 2019 | Ric Ocasek, frontman of the popular late 1970s and 1980s band the Cars, is found dead in his New York home. He was 75. |