| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Randy Bachman, guitarist and vocalist for the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, is born. |
| 79 | years ago | 1947 | Singer Meatloaf is born. |
| 73 | years ago | 1953 | Greg Ham of Austrailia's Men at Work is born. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Shaun Cassidy is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Stephen Jenkins of Third Eye Blind is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | California surf-rock band the Beach Boys make their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show singing I Get Around. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Santana's self-titled debut album enters the LP chart. The double-platinum album contains the top-10 hit, Evil Ways. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | CCR's Green River peaks at #2 on the singles chart. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Rory Storme, the leader of one of Liverpool's earlier beat groups, takes his life in what is presumed to be a suicide pact with his mother. Rory Storme and the Hurricanes are best remembered as the group Ringo Starr departed in 1962 to play drums for The Beatles. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Rolling Stone reports that Carlos Santana, now a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, has a new name: Devadip, which means The Lamp of the Light Supreme. The band's name will remain Santana. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Brad Arnold, vocalist and drummer for the Gulf Coast's 3 Doors Down, is born. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Jimmy McCulloch, a rock guitarist who recorded with Wings, Roger Daltrey, Thunderclap Newman, John Entwistle, Stone The Crows, and The Bluesbreakers dies from heart failure brought on by morphine and alcohol.. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Moments after beginning the tune, Better Off Dead, Elton John collapses onstage at the Universal Amphitheatre. He's suffering from exhaustion brought on by the flu. After a ten minute intermission, John returns to finish a concert lasting nearly three hours. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Blondie release Eat To The Beat. The LP contains the single Dreaming. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | The Police release their second album, Regatta de Blanc. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Paul Simon's Late in the Evening peaks at #6 on the pop chart. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | David Bowie's Scary Monsters and Super Creeps peaks at #12 on the LP chart. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | The Beatles' Twist and Shout re-enters the pop singles chart after being heard in the films Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back To School. |
| 40 | years ago | 1986 | Walk This Way by Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith peaks at #4 on the singles chart. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | An indictment charging record producer Phil Spector with murder is unsealed in Los Angeles. Prosecuters say the creator of the “Wall of Sound” shot and killed 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson in his mansion the previous year. The 64-year-old Spector posts $1 million for bail and remains free until he's found guilty in 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Jeff Timmons of the 90's boy band 98 Degrees pleads no contest to charges of reckless driving in Cape Canaveral, Florida and is sentenced to a year of probation. In town for a charity softball game in April, he's pulled over in a white Mercedes doing 60 mph in a 45-mph zone and refuses to sign the citation. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | David Lee Roth perfoms with Van Halen for the fist time since rejoining the band at Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
| 14 | years ago | 2012 | New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne surpasses Elvis Presley as the male with the most entries on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The record-breaking 109th entry is Game's song Celebration, on which Lil Wayne is a guest, along with Chris Brown, Tyga, and Wiz Khalifa. |
| 8 | years ago | 2018 | Jefferson Airplane co-founder and vocalist for both the Airplane and Jefferson Starship, Marty Balin dies at age 76. |