| 85 | years ago | 1941 | Folk singer and one-time Bob Dylan girlfriend Joan Baez is born. |
| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Jimmy Page, guitarist with Led Zeppelin, is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Crystal Gayle is born. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Carl Bell of Fuel is born, as is Steve Harwell of Smash Mouth, and Dave Matthews. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | The U.S. Jaycees present Elvis Presley with an award honoring him as one of the “ten outstanding young men of America.” Upon receiving the award, Presley made a short speech. A recording of it was made available on the soundtrack to the documentary This Is Elvis. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Mick Jagger is refused a Japanese visa on account of a 1969 drug bust, halting the Stones' plans to tour the Orient. Asked by a reporter about his personal drug use, Jagger replied, “I don't take drugs. I don't approve of drugs and I don't approve of people taking drugs, unless they're very careful.” |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | British heavy metal band Deep Purple earns a gold record for it's eleventh album, Stormbringer. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Backstreet Boy A. J. McLean is born. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | A benefit concert called A Gift of Song -- the Music of UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. NBC tapes for broadcast the following night. Those performing include Olivia Newton-John, Rita Coolidge, the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Abba and Earth, Wind & Fire. They help to raise about a half-million dollars for the world hunger organization. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Keyboard player Jerry Dammers and singer Terry Hall of the Specials are fined in London for inciting violence at a concert last fall. |
| 11 | years ago | 2015 | Nick "The Big Bazoo" Ferrara, whose radio career spanned WIXO, WLMG, WLTS, WWL, WEZB “B-97” in New Orleans, as well as KMEL in San Francisco, stations in San Diego, and WBZZ “B-94” in Pittsburgh, is killed in a two-car accident on I-10 near Gulfport, Louisiana. He was 59. |