| 79 | years ago | 1946 | Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is born. |
| 60 | years ago | 1965 | The Kinks arrive in New York City to start their first U.S. Tour. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | Moby Grape releases five singles simultaneously on CBS Records. |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | The Hollies' Carrie Ann is released. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | The Ohio Express gets its first gold album for Yummy, Yummy, Yummy. |
| 52 | years ago | 1973 | Joe Saylers, business manager for Three Dog Night and Steppenwolf, is shot in the arm after a confrontation with two strangers in his West Hollywood apartment. |
| 48 | years ago | 1977 | Steve Winwood releases his first solo L.P. entitled, Steve Winwood. |
| 47 | years ago | 1978 | The Jefferson Starship fails to perform at the Lorley Festival in St. Goarhausen, Germany because lead singer Grace Slick, dealing with alcoholism, is unable to go onstage. |
| 45 | years ago | 1980 | Led Zeppelin begins a three-week European tour. It is their first on the continent since 1973. It will be the group's last tour. |
| 36 | years ago | 1989 | Ringo Starr announces that he will tour again under the guise of Ringo and the All-Starr Band. Members of the band include Clarence Clemons, Joe Walsh, Billy Preston, and Nils Lofgren. |
| 21 | years ago | 2004 | The publicist for guitarist Johnny Ramone of the Ramones, whose real name is John Cummings, says Johnny is at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in New York for an infection related to prostate cancer. Mary Ramone, the group's drummer, had been interviewed earlier by Rolling Stone magazine and said that the guitarist's health was declining due to spread of the cancer. The other two of the four Ramones, Joey (real name Jeff Hyman) and Dee Dee (real name Douglas Colvin), are dead--Joey from lymphatic cancer in 2001, and Dee Dee from a drug overdose in 2002. The publicist says he expects Johnny to go home from the hospital next week. He does go home, but dies September 15th the same year. |
| 15 | years ago | 2010 | Elton John takes a gig several others, including Elvis Costello and the Pixies, declined. It's a concert in Tel Aviv. Many pro-Palestinian groups had called for a boycot of Israel. The previous month, Elton had been criticized for playing the wedding of talk radio's Rush Limbaugh. Elton says music is in a world separate from politics, prejudice, and religious differences. |