| 74 years ago (1950) | Little Steven, guitarist with the E Street Band, and Tina Weymouth, bassist with the Talking Heads are born. |
| 69 years ago (1955) | RCA Victor makes its best investment ever: A&R man Steve Sholes signs Elvis Presley to the label. The deal is made at New York's Warwick Hotel and involves $40,000. $25,000 goes to Sun Records, $15,00 goes to Hi-Lo Music for Presley's song publishing and the rest is Elvis'. |
| 59 years ago (1965) | Bob Dylan marries Sara Lowndes, a former model and divorcee' with a daughter, in a Nassau County civil ceremony. Four days later, Dylan leaves on a world tour, his first with The Band. It's not until February that Dylan acknowledges his marriage to the public. |
| 59 years ago (1965) | Tamla-Motown Records releases Stevie Wonder's Uptight. Peaking at #1, on the R&B chart and #3 on the pop chart, it will become the fifteen-year-old's biggest hit since Fingertips Part Two in 1963. |
| 57 years ago (1967) | Arlo Guthrie's classic, Alice's Restaurant, is released. |
| 56 years ago (1968) | The Beatles release their long-awaited double album simply called The Beatles but better known as “The White Album.” Among the set's 29 songs is Ringo Starr's first songwriting contribution to the group's repertoire, Don't Pass Me By, which, as a single, makes it to #1 in Scandinavia. |
| 47 years ago (1977) | Weddings will never be the same after Debby Boone has a #1 hit with You Light Up My Life. The record goes platinum on this date and makes 50's crooner Pat Boone a proud papa. |
| 43 years ago (1981) | Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood jam with blues giant Muddy Water (whose Rollin' Stone gave the Stones their name) and Buddy Guy at Chicago's Checker Board Lounge. |
| 32 years ago (1992) | Paul Simon opens his first tour of South America in Brazil. |
| 29 years ago (1995) | Singer Sophie B. Hawkins makes her acting debut on Fox's Party Of Five. |
| 27 years ago (1997) | INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence is found dead in his hotel room in the Ritz Carlton in Double Bay, Australia, a suburb of Sydney. The cause of death was suicide by hanging. Hutchence was in Sydney preparing for INXS' 20th anniversary tour which was scheduled to begin in three days. Hutchence was 37. |
| 20 years ago (2004) | Two burglars break into the English country mansion of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne while they are at home. They steal 3.7 million dollars worth of jewelry before the Osbournes awaken and discover one of the intruders in Sharon's dressing room adjoining the main bedroom. Ozzy grabs one burglar and puts him in a headlock, but he breaks free. Both burglars escape, one by jumping from a second story window 30 feet above the ground. None of the Osbourne children is in the home at the time. |
| 15 years ago (2009) | Adam Lambert shocks the audience of the live American Music Awards TV show when he plants a kiss on a male kyboardist and simulates oral sex with a male backup dancer during a performance of For Your Entertainment. |
| 1 year ago (2023) | New Orleans' Mr. Big Stuff singer Irma Thomas dies at age 80 |
| 1 year ago (2023) | TMZ reports that Daryl Hall has filed a lawsuit against his former musical compadre John Oates, claiming some form of breach of contract. What's more, Hall got a restraining order against Oates almost a week before. |