| 66 | years ago | 1960 | Sam Cooke's Chain Gang peaks at #2 on both the R&B and pop charts at the same time. It's his biggest hit since You Send Me. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Beatles manager Brian Epstein turns down a 3 1/2 million pound offer for The Beatles contract from a group of U.S. businessmen to buy out his management contract. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Beatles, a half hour Saturday morning cartoon show featuring genuine Beatles songs but not their real voices, premieres on ABC. The show runs through September 7, 1969. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Len Barry's 1-2-3 enters both the pop and R&B charts. The song peaks at #2 on the pop chart and #11 on the R&B. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Barry McGuire's Eve Of Destruction hits #1 on the pop chart, while The Yardbirds' Heart Full Of Soul peaks at #9 and The Animals' We Gotta Get Out Of This Place peaks at #13. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | The Beatles record Fool On The Hill at Abbey Road Studios in London. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | John Lennon records Cold Turkey with a backing band that includes Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman, Yoko Ono and Ringo Starr. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Ringo Starr releases his Beaucoups of Blues album. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Cat Stevens Peace Train is released. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Even though bassist Bill Wyman admits it's not his favorite album, the Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup turns gold. The album makes it to #1 and contains the #1 single, Angie. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Soul singer Jackie Wilson suffers a heart attack while performing at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He suffers brain damage and lapses into a coma. Ironically, he was in the middle of singing one of his biggest hits, Lonely Teardrops, and was two words into the line, ....my heart is crying when he collapsed. He is 41 years old. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Wings play a benefit and raise $50,000 for the restoration of water-damaged art treasures in Venice's St. Marks Square. A reported 25,000 show-up and unknowingly set back the reclamation project from water when their combined weight loosens some paving stones and allows water to seep through into the Square. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Boston's debut album enters the album chart. It eventually climbs up to #3 and becomes the fastest-selling album debut album in history. The album contains More Than a Feeling which reaches #5 early next year. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Blue Oyster Cult's Agents of Fortune LP enters the chart. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | The Eagles LP, The Long Run is released. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Joe Jackson releases his I'm The Man single. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonzo Bonham dies of asphyxiation on his own vomit after drinking forty measures of vodka on the eve of the band's U.S. tour. The group decides he cannot be replaced and disbands. John Bonham was 32. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | The Rolling Stones play the first show of their U.S. tour at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium. The show opens up with Under My Thumb. The tour is filmed by director Hal Ashby and later released in 1983 as the concert documentary Lets Spend the Night Together. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Aerosmith returns to the charts for the first time since 1980's Greatest Hits. The latest LP, Rock in a Hard Place is their first release of new material since lead guitarist Joe Perry departed in 1979. The album never makes it into the Top 20. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Don Henley's solo debut album, I Can't Stand Still enters the chart. The LP includes the hit Dirty Laundry. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | The Who's final album, It's Hard enters the chart. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) peaks at #20 on the singles chart. |
| 36 | years ago | 1990 | A street is named Little Richard Boulevard in the singer's hometown of Macon, Georgia. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | John Mellencamp's Human Wheels enters the LP chart. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Alicia Keys, Nellie McKay, Cyndi Lauper, Sylvia Toson, and Boyz II Men perform in concert at the Great Wall of China north of Bejing. Some of the proceeds go to a Chinese children's charity. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Cowboy Mouth, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, and U2 all perform at the reopening of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans for the Saints-Falcons game. New Orleans music legends Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint perform the national anthem. It’s the first event held in the Dome since it was trashed by Hurricane Katrina 13 months before, and seems to get more coverage than a Superbowl. The Saints win the game, 23-3, to go 3-0 on the season. |
| 16 | years ago | 2010 | PBS children's show Sesame Streeet decides against airing a taped segment featuring racy singer Katy Perry singing her hit Hot N Cold to Elmo the Muppet. They felt her gold bustier displayed too much cleavage. |
| 12 | years ago | 2014 | Tens of thousands of excited teenage girls and younger girls, and quite a few parents, invade downtown New Orleans and the Mercedes-Benz Superdome to see and hear the pop vocal group One Direction. Three songs into the show, group member and Irishman Niall Horan exclaims, “New Orleans, this place is absolutely massive!” |