| 88 | years ago | 1938 | Kenny Rogers is born. |
| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Jackie DeShannon [Sharon Myers] is born in Hazel, Kentucky. |
| 79 | years ago | 1947 | Carl Giammarese of The Buckinghams is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1952 | Joe Strummer [John Mellors], guitar and vocals for The Clash, is born. |
| 72 | years ago | 1954 | Journey's drummer Steve Smith is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | The Clash's Joe Strummer is born. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Kim Sledge of Sister Sledge is born in Philadelphia. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Ann-Margret's I Just Don't Understand enters the Billboard charts. It would eventually reach #17. And Elvis Presley starts a three-week run at #1 on the album chart with Something For Everybody, his sixth #1 album. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones album, Out of Our Heads, is #1 on the U.S. album chart. Songs off the LP include Satisfaction, Play With Fire, and The Last Time. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Lovin' Spoonful's Do You Believe In Magic and Barry McGuire's Eve Of Destruction are released. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Columbia Records re-signs Bob Dylan after his original 5-year deal agreement ends. Reportedly, Dylan had already signed with MGM Records, but MGM never countersigned the contract, allowing Columbia to move in. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | System of a Down’s Serj Tankian is born. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Tommy James and The Shondells return to the U. K. #1 chart position for the second time with the single Mony Mony. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Liam Howlett of Prodigy is born. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Cheech and Chong's comedy album, Big Bambu, is awarded the Gold Disc Award on this date. It ultimately sells 2.1 million copies. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Following a chaotic show in Akron, Ohio, Grace Slick is maced in the face and Paul Kantner has his head slammed to the floor by authorities. A phoned-in bomb threat put police on edge. When fans toss rocks at a squad car, police respond with tear gas. Jack Cassidy objects from the stage. He's then arrested and taken to the basement. When Slick and Kantner go downstairs to check things out, that's when the trouble with police begins. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | The Rolling Stones top the bill over Todd Rundgren, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 10cc, and others at England's annual Knebworth Festival. Tickets are £4.50. The concert is held in front of 200,000 fans and is played up as the last Stones show ever to be held in Britain. Of course, it's not! |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | RCA Victor Records announces that sales of Elvis Presley records have passed the 400 million mark. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | The Pirates of Penzance, co-starring Linda Ronstadt, moves to Broadway. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | The Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, grace the cover of Rolling Stone. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | Bernie Taupin, Elton John's lyricist, marries Stephanie Haymes. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | The soundtrack from the film Sleepless In Seattle reaches #1 on the album chart. |
| 32 | years ago | 1994 | Singer John Denver is charged with drunken driving after crashing his Porsche into a tree. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | R.E.M. sues Hershey Foods, claiming the company exploited its name when it ran a “Kit Kat - R.E.M. Concert” sweepstakes in Hershey candy bars. The suit is eventually dropped. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Former Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne sues to prevent the rest of the group from touring as The Heads. The suit is settled out of court. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Rick James is released from prison after serving two years for assault. |
| 29 | years ago | 1997 | Ex-Stone Roses drummer Alan Wren is jailed for seven days after being rude to a top Manchester Magistrate in Great Britain. He was before the court due to having no car insurance, and lost his temper after being quizzed about his earnings. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Tickets to see The Rolling Stones this night at Fenway Park in Boston are priced at $100,000 each. That’s if you want to watch them from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s luxury box. Most of that money will go to the Governator’s fund-raising campaign for a November 8 special election. The Stones say they have no role in the fund-raiser. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | KISS' Gene Simmons sends a televised message of support to an Israeli soldier seriously woundedn in fighting ion Lebanon, calling him a hero. Simmons was born Chaim Witz in the northern Israel city of Haifa before emigrating to New York as a child. The paralyzed soldier is Ron Weinrecich, a die-hard KISS fan with the band's poster on his hospital room wall. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | Gwen Stefani gives birth to Zuma Nesta Rock. It's the second baby for her and rocker Gavin Rossdale. |