| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Dave Knights of Procol Harum is born. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Rascals claim gold record #3 for their hit, A Beautiful Morning. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Crosby, Stills & Nash release their first album and decide to tour when they find another guitarist. Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun suggests Neil Young -- and the rest is history. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | David Bowie's Fame is released. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Members of the group Kansas are named Deputy Ambassadors of Goodwill by UNICEF in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Courtney Love is scolded by a Manhattan judge for showing up five hours late for a hearing on charges of assault and reckless endangerment. She allegedly hit a fan with a microphone stand at a March show in New York's East Village. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Alanis Morissette plays the Saenger Theater in New Orleans unplugged, promoting her new acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill, ten years after the origional was a hit in 1995. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Paul Simon launches his first solo tour in five years with a show in Cleveland to support his critically acclaimed Surprise album. He says the toughest part of this tour is recreating the album’s soundscapes that came from collaboration with the avant-garde Brian Eno. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | Bon Jovi wraps up a 22-date European tour in London before returning to the States for a pair of shows each in Boston and New York. |
| 16 | years ago | 2010 | Jimmy Buffett opens the first Margaritaville Beach Hotel on the barrier island of Pensacola Beach in the Gulf of Mexico despite potential problems from the ongoing BP oil spill off the coast of Louisian which is not capped until the following month. |
| 14 | years ago | 2012 | New Orleans House of Blues is the end point for a concert marathon by Flaming Lips. It breaks the Guiness World Record for the most concerts in different cities in a 24-hour period. It started in Memphis at 3:30 PM the day before. The intermediate gigs were in Clarksdale, Oxford, Jackson, Hattiesburg, and Biloxi, Mississippi, plus Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
| 12 | years ago | 2014 | Bobby Womack, a colorful and revered R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, dies. He was 70. |