| 84 | years ago | 1941 | Donald “Duck” Dunn of Booker T. & the MG's is born. |
| 84 | years ago | 1941 | Original Beatles drummer Pete Best is born. Beatles manager Brian Epstein fires him in August of 1962, and he is replaced by Ringo Starr. |
| 80 | years ago | 1945 | Lee Michaels is born. |
| 70 | years ago | 1955 | Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, and for The Romantics, is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1962 | Stone Roses guitarist John Squire is born, as is Big Audio's Gary Stonadge. |
| 59 | years ago | 1966 | The Beatles begin recording sessions for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP, laying tracks for Strawberry Fields Forever --- the track, however, doesn't make the album. (1966 |
| 56 | years ago | 1969 | The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed, which contains the original versions of You Can't Always Get What You Want and Honky Tonk Woman, and the show-stopper Midnight Rambler, is certified gold. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | Chad Taylor, guitarist with Live, is born. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | ABC-TV debuts its late-night rock show, In Concert, put together by the same guy who brought us The Monkees, Don Kirshner. The first show stars Alice Cooper, Chuck Berry, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Poco, and the Allman Brothers. |
| 46 | years ago | 1979 | Peabo Bryson, who broke into stardom in 1978, enters the soul charts with his biggest hit of the year, Gimme Some Time, a duet with Natalie Cole which peaks at #8 in its fourteen weeks on the chart. |
| 40 | years ago | 1985 | Singer Big Joe Turner dies of a heart attack. He was one of the stars of the R&B era with hits like, Shake, Rattle and Roll and Honey Hush. |
| 34 | years ago | 1991 | Queen lead signer Freddie Mercury dies from complications from AIDS at his home in London. He had sent out a statement confirming rumors that he had AIDS only two days before his death. He was 45. |
| 34 | years ago | 1991 | Cyndi Lauper marries actor David Thornton. That's not the weird part; the weird part is that Little Richard performs the ceremony. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | Lawyers for Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and his ex-wife Mandy Smith announce the terms of their divorce settlement. She keeps the house and its contents, plus legal fees. |
| 26 | years ago | 1999 | Eddie Money appears as himself on the Drew Carey Show. Money refuses to grant the character Mimi a divorce, but is later duped into it. |