1948 – Born on this day, Corky Laing, drums, Mountain.
1949 – Derek Holt, bassist with the Climax Blues Band, is born in Stafford, England.
1950 – Paul Pena, a blues musician who wrote Steve Miller’s hit “Jet Airliner" is born.
1955 – Edward Lodewijk “Eddie” Van Halen is born this joyful day.
1965 - During a Rolling Stones tour of Australia and New Zealand, guitarist Keith Richards had his shirt torn off after 50 fans invaded the stage during the gig.
1966 – The Animals’ Eric Burdon sings lead vocals for Manfred Mann at a London concert.
1967 – In the Village Voice today, you can read Jack Newfield’s article “Brecht of the Jukebox, Poet of the Electric Guitar” about Bob Dylan.
1969 – In the midst of recording Let It Be at the Apple Studios, the Beatles lay down a series of rock ‘n’ roll covers, including “Shake Rattle And Roll,”
1969 – Led Zeppelin play a four-hour set at the Boston Tea Party.
1970 – John Lennon writes and records “Instant Karma” with producer Phil Spector.
1973 – Sweet were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Blockbuster’. The groups only UK No.1 of 15 Top 40 hits.
1974 – The Doobie Brothers open their first European tour at The Rainbow in London.
1975 – The BBC shows a documentary on David Bowie called “Cracked Actor.”
1977 – Peter Green, one of Fleetwood Mac’s founding guitarists, is committed to an English mental institution. Cause? He fired a pistol at a messenger who was trying to deliver a check for his portion of song royalties.
1977 – Patti Smith falls off stage whilst opening for Bob Seger in Tampa, Fla.
1986 – Allen Collins from Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed his car, paralysing him from the waist down and killing his girlfriend Debra Jean Watts.
1991 – Queen had their second UK No.1 with ‘Innuendo’.
1997 – ZZ Top, James Brown and the Blues Brothers perform at the Super Bowl XXXI halftime show.
2000 – Rage Against the Machine try to force their way into the New York Stock Exchange. The stunt was part of a video the radical band was shooting in Wall Street with filmmaker Michael Moore for their song “Sleep Now in the Fire.”
2000 – Courtney Love gets into a fight with a photographer at the Sundance Film Festival.
2003 – Billy Joel was airlifted to hospital after his car smashed into a tree.
2004 - Sex Pistols singer John Lydon appeared on the U.K. reality show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me out Of Here set in the Australian outback. Lydon left after four days earning $42,500 to appear on the programme.
2006 – Babyshambles singer/addict and occasional Kate Moss squeeze Pete Doherty is arrested twice in one day for suspicion of possessing drugs.
2007 – The Rolling Stones topped the US music rich list for the second year running after making $150.6m (£76.2m) in 2006.
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