| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Chris White of The Zombies is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band is born. |
| 71 | years ago | 1955 | Carl Perkins' Blue Suede Shoes enters the R&B chart. It is the first time a C&W artist has made the R&B chart. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You are, according to Billboard, neck and neck for the top spot on the singles chart. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Capitol Records is besieged with requests for heavyweight boxing champ Cassius Clay's album, I Am the Greatest. It's in big demand because of Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston last month. Columbia expects to sell 500,000 copies and Clay says, “I'm better and prettier than Chubby Checker. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Shadows of Knight, a Chicago garage band, enter the Top Ten with their biggest hit, Gloria. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Randy Guss of Toad the Wet Sprocket is born. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | The Who release Pinball Wizard in the U.K. It's the first selection the public hears from the rock opera Tommy. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Tommy's Roe's single, Dizzy earns a gold record for sales over one million. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Traffic have a gold LP with Shootout at the Fantasy Factory, their final LP with the extended group. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | One of the rare instrumentals to go gold this decade is Dueling Banjos, performed by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel and heard in the movie Deliverance. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | John Hammond, director of talent acquisition at Columbia Records, suffers a heart attack following a show by one of his biggest and most recent finds, Bruce Springsteen. It's Hammond's third heart attack and he attributes it to overworking. However, his doctors insist it happened because Hammond had been so enthusiastic during Springsteen's set at New York's legendary club, Max's Kansas City. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Tantric’s Hugo Ferreira is born. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | David Bowie's Young Americans is released. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | A likeness of Elton John is put on display at London's Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. He is the first rock figure so accorded the honor since The Beatles were first immortalized in wax in March 1964. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | Lisa Marie Presley announces she's pregnant with her third child to dispel media ridicule of her weight gain. Her current husband is music producer Michael Lockwood, and she's been married before to Danny Keogh, father of her first two children, as well as to singer Michael Jaclson and actor Nicolas Cage. |