| 78 | years ago | 1948 | Vincent Furnier, a.k.a. Alice Cooper, is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1961 | Johnny Burnette is rushed to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood for an emergency appendectomy. The Nashville rocker, whose You're Sixteen is in the Top Forty, is forced to cancel $10,000 worth of engagements. He also has to postpone a 28-date tour of the British Isles that is to begin in three days. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth, inspired by the Sunset Strip riots in L.A., is released and climbs to #7. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Paul McCartney hires the law firm of Eastman & Eastman, Linda Eastman's father's law firm, as general legal counsel for Apple. This was Paul's response to the hiring of Allen Klein the day before, and the beginning of the end for the Fab Four. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | The Osmonds, a vocal group of five brothers fronted by 13-year-old Donny, receives its first gold record for $1 million worth of sales of One Bad Apple. The song, which many believe is a clear imitation of the Jackson 5, is the Osmonds' debut for Mike Curb's MGM Records. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | American Bandstand celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with an ABC-TV special hosted by Dick Clark. An incredible “all-star band” made up of Chuck Berry, Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman, Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers, the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels, Doc Severenson, Les McCann, Donald Byrd, Chuck Mangione, and three-quarters of Booker T and the MGs jams together in a rendition of Roll Over Beethoven. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | Karen Carpenter dies of heart failure brought on by anorexia nervosa. She teamed up with her brother Richard to form The Carpenters. She was 32 years old. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car. |
| 14 | years ago | 2012 | At the NFL Honors program during the leadup to Super Bowl 46, Lenny Kravitz meets up and chats with former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. Lenny grew up acoss the street from Joe, and used to play catch with him. Kravitz performs at the official tailgate party at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis the next day, Super Bowl Sunday. |