| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Graham Nash is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Howard Bellamy, one of The Bellamy Brothers, is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | Petula Clark's first major hit Majorca, debuts on the U.K. chart. Although the single is the first of a string of Top Twenty hits in the U.K. and Europe, it will be ten years before Clark gets a hit in the U.S. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Atlantic Records signs the Coasters, and rushes to release their first record, Down in Mexico, written by new Atlantic writers Leiber and Stoller. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | Fats Domino sings Blueberry Hill and Blue Monday on Perry Como's television show. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper make their last onstage appearances during the GAC Winter Show tour, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. |
| 67 | years ago | 1959 | Frankie Avalon's Venus is released on Chancellor Records. It will become the teen idol's greatest hit. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots is born. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Look Magazine uses the opening line of The Beatles' A Day in the Life--“I read the news today oh boy”--to headline its look back at the Sixties. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Ben Mize of Counting Crows is born. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | NBC-TV debuts its entry into the rock TV shows sweepstakes, Midnight Special. The program is more middle-of-the-road than ABC's In Concert and is hosted by Helen Reddy. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Keith Emerson injures his hands when a rigged piano prematurely explodes during a concert in San Francisco. He suffers various cuts and a broken fingernail. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Van Halen signs with Warner Brothers Records. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Ex-Sex Pistol bass player Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in the New York City apartment of his present girlfriend, Michelle Robinson. The death is ruled an accident. He was 21 years old. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | In honor of the first anniversary of the death of ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, 1,000 punks march from London's Chelsea section to Hyde Park. Vicious' mother, Ann Beverly, was to have been at the head of the march. However, the night before she was sent to the hospital for a drug overdose. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | REO Speedwagon, the journeyman band that almost found itself out of deal by the mid-70's, have the biggest album of the year with Hi-Infidelity, as it goes platinum on this date. It reaches #1 and is there for a total of 14 weeks. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | Van Halen’s Web site announces that the band will reunite with original singer David Lee Roth for a 40-city summer tour of North America. Original bassist Michael Anthony will not be part of the tour. He was replaced late last year by Eddie Van Halen's 15-year-old son Wolfgang. The band will be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in a little over a month. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | 38-year-old Austrailian singer Kylie Minogue conforms she's breaking up with 4-year boyfriend Olivier Martinez, whom she credits as being incredibly supportive during her bout with breast cancer, which was diagnosed in 2005. She had recently resumed performing, and says the split is amicable. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | The Doobie Brothers and The Go-Gos ride in the Edymion Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, then perform at the Endymion Extravaganza after the parade in the Superdome. |
| 8 | years ago | 2018 | Temptations lead singer Dennis Edwards passes away in his Chicago, IL home. Sadly, the Grammy Award-winning singer’s death comes just one day before his 75th birthday. The Motown legend was briefly married to Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters. The couple had one daughter together. |