| 93 | years ago | 1932 | Petula Clark is born. |
| 88 | years ago | 1937 | Barry McGuire is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1945 | ABBA'a Frida is born. |
| 69 | years ago | 1956 | Elvis Presley makes his acting debut as the Love Me Tender movie premieres. |
| 60 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones make their debut on NBC-TV's Hullabaloo TV rock show, performing Get Off My Cloud. |
| 60 | years ago | 1965 | Oldie King Bob Walker plays the first song on WLSU Student Radio at LSU in Baton Rouge. It’s Seventh Son by Baton Rouge's own Johnny Rivers on Bob Walker's Wax Museum. A few years later, he'll be spinning records at WTIX in New Orleans. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | Memphis soul singer Johnnie Taylor, who replaced Sam Cooke in the Soul Stirrers before starting his solo career, earns his first gold record with Who's Making Love. |
| 56 | years ago | 1969 | Janis Joplin is arrested in Tampa, Florida on charges of using “vulgar and indecent language” at her concert. According to witnesses, the incident started when a policeman with a bullhorn ordered people in the audience to sit down and Joplin responded, “Don't fuck with those people! Hey, Mister, what're you so uptight about? Did you buy a five dollar ticket?” When police backstage instructed Joplin to tell the audience to take their seats she replied, “I'm not telling them shit.” After being arrested in her dressing room, Joplin is released on $504 bond. All charges are eventually dropped. |
| 56 | years ago | 1969 | The Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, where The Beatles played their first major engagements, announces it will close before the end of the month. Rock and roll bands have become too expensive to book. |
| 54 | years ago | 1971 | Grand Funk Railroad release their sixth album, E Pluribus Funk. Though the album doesn't do much for the critics, it climbs to #5. |
| 53 | years ago | 1972 | Singer/songwriter Harry Chapin and his wife have their first son, Joshua Burke, born in New York. |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | The Faces release what will be their last single, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything. Two years later, Rod Stewart leaves them permantly to pursue his solo career. |
| 49 | years ago | 1976 | California singer/songwriter Jackson Browne's critically acclaimed fourth album, The Pretender, is certified gold. He had completed work on the record in the wake of the suicide of his wife, Phyllis Major, back in March. His debut album, Jackson Browne, released in 1972, goes gold the next day. |
| 47 | years ago | 1978 | Chic is awarded its second gold record of 1978 for Le Freak, which will hit #1 in January 1979. The group had earlier received a gold record for Dance, Dance, Dance. |
| 45 | years ago | 1980 | David Bowie opens on Broadway in the title role of The Elephant Man. |
| 35 | years ago | 1990 | Milli Vanilli producer Frank Farian publicily admits that Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus never sang a note on the Milli Vanilli album. The duo eventually return their Best New Artist Grammy. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | Ozzy Osbourne performs what he says will be his last concert in Costa Mesa, California. The show turns into a Black Sabbath reunion when former bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward join him on stage. Ozzy has, of course, since returned to performing. |
| 21 | years ago | 2004 | Korn’s Greatest Hits, Volume I goes gold, just a month and 10 days after its release. |
| 17 | years ago | 2008 | Rod Stewart performs at a star-studded birthday party for England’s Prince Charles. |