| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Steve Miller is born. |
| 77 | years ago | 1949 | AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson is born. |
| 72 | years ago | 1954 | Sir Bob Geldof is born, as is David Bryson of Counting Crows. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | Elvis Presley's I Forgot to Remember to Forget Her, hits #2 on the Memphis charts. The #1 song is Johnny Cash's Cry, Cry, Cry. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Bobby Darin's Mack The Knife hits #1 on the pop chart. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | Love Me Do, backed with P.S. I Love You, The Beatles' first single, is released in the U.K. It's out on the Parlophone label and gets its first radio play that evening on the EMI-owned Radio Luxembourg. It peaks at #17 on the U.K. chart in December. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Who, Small Faces, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, and Joe Cocker kick off a package tour of Britain with a concert in London. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Cream begins its farewell tour of the U.S. with a concert in Oakland, California. The single White Room is released the same day. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride is released. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Rolling Stones' Street Fighting Man peaks at #48 on the chart. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | The Who performs on The Ed Sullivan Show. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Dianne Linkletter, daughter of TV personality Art Linkletter and an aspiring actress, leaps to her death from her West Hollywood apartment. Linkletter claims his daughter was under the influence of LSD at the time of her apparent suicide. He says “it isn't suicide, it's murder.” |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Randy Newman performs at the Atlanta Symphony Hall, accompanied by an 87-piece symphony orchestra. Conducting the orchestra is Randy's uncle Emil Newman. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | The Guess Who's Clap For The Wolfman peaks at #6 on the chart. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Harry Chapin's Cats in the Cradle is released. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Hall and Oates' second album, Abandoned Luncheonette, which contained their original hit version of Tavares' #1 R&B tune, She's Gone, is certified gold three weeks after its release. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | The soundtrack to The Who's The Kids Are Alright, a loving history of the band, goes platinum. It's a little more than a year after the death of drummer Keith Moon. |
| 41 | years ago | 1985 | Hall & Oates' Live At the Apollo with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendrik enters the LP charts, as does Cheap Trick's Standing On The Edge. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | Two albums by Guns 'n' Roses debut in the top two positions on the Billboard LP chart. Use Your Illusion II debuts at #1, while Use Your Illusion I hits #2. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Former Temptations singer Eddie Kendricks dies of lung cancer. He is 52. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | The Beatles' 1962-1966 (The Red Album) and 1967-1970 (The Blue Album) are released on CD. |
| 27 | years ago | 1999 | Paul McCartney releases his first album since the death of his wife Linda in April 1998. Entitled Run Devil Run, the CD is a collection of rare rock oldies with new McCartney songs. |
| 10 | years ago | 2016 | Elton John rocks the River Center in Baton Rouge, just a year and a half or so after his 2015 appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival a bit further downriver. |