| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Three Dog Night vocalist Danny Hutton is born. |
| 76 | years ago | 1950 | Joe Perry, guitarist for Aerosmith, is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | Chuck Berry's Maybellene peaks at #5 on the pop chart. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Record stores are swamped with requests for Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender. The song, which is the title track of his next movie, has not been released. |
| 66 | years ago | 1960 | Dave Lowry, frontman for Cracker, is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Rod Stewart records his first single, Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl. He will go on to sing with The Jeff Beck Group before embarking on a solo career. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Beatles album, Revolver hits #1 -- a position it would hold for 6 weeks. The multi-platinum album contained Yellow Submarine. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Monkees' The Last Train To Clarksville is released. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Wilson Pickett's Land of 1000 Dances peaks at #6 on the chart while The Troggs' With A Girl Like You peaks at #29 on the chart. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Bush drummer Robin Goodridge is born. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | BBC Radio bans the Rolling Stones Star Star because the chorus contains the word Star-f*cker. It's not just sung once, but the word is repeated a dozen times. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | The original New York Dolls split up. Two members later tour under the that same name. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | James Taylor's Handy Man peaks at #4 on the chart. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Kiss' double album, Kiss Alive is released. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Elton John's Someone Saved My Life Tonight is certified gold. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Patti Smith plays the biggest concert of her career in Florence, Italy to 85,000 people. She tells the crowd it will be her final show so that she can retire at age 32 to begin her life with husband Fred “Sonic” Smith. She will return to performing a decade later. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | The Rolling Stones release She's So Cold. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | Jackson Browne's Lawyers in Love peaks at #13 on the singles chart while Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill peaks at #84. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | AC/DC's Flick Of The Switch LP enters the chart. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Robert Palmer's Simply Irresistible peaks at #2 on the singles chart while Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine hits #1 and Van Halen's When It's Love hits #5. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Eric Clapton begins a U.S. tour with a band that includes Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler on guitar. |
| 36 | years ago | 1990 | Will Smith, who became known as The Fresh Prince as half of the rap group, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, makes his TV debut in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Cyndi Lauper wins an Emmy for her guest appearance on Mad About You. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Sheryl Crow's self-titled second album is banned in Wal-Mart stores because of the song, Love Is A Good Thing. The song mentions children killing each other with “a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores.” |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | Some Hindu groups criticize Madonna's performance at the MTV Video Music Awards after the singer wears a see-through shirt and a Hindu facial marking while performing Ray of Light. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Guitarist, fiddler, vocalist, and composer Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown dies at his brother’s home in Orange, Texas after evacuating his Slidell, Louisiana home which Hurricane Katrina ultimately destroyed. He was suffering from lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease. He was a Grammy and Handy award winner, and his fans included Eric Clapton and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons. His “American music” included blues, big-band swing, Cajun, and country. |
| 15 | years ago | 2011 | Journey rocks the New Orleans Arena. The following week, celebrity Web site TMZ reports that Michaele Salahi, wife of famed White House gate crasher Tareq Salahi, is safe with Journey's guitarist Neal Schon after authorities in Virgina thought she had been kidnapped. |