1949 – Nick Lowe is born in Woodchurch, England.
1951 - Dougie Thomson bassist for Supertramp born today.
1962 – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first perform together as Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys.
1965 – The Beatles continued filming ‘Help’ at Twickenham Studios,
1973 – Lou Reed is bitten by a fan who jumps on stage in Buffalo, N.Y.
1973 – Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies UK LP no. 1 chart topper.
1973 – Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon released in the UK.
1982 – Iron Maiden release the album The Number of the Beast.
1986 – Van Halen release 5150… or is that Van Hagar.
1991 – After repeatedly criticizing Miller Beer, the tour sponsors, The Black Crowes are dropped as the opening act on ZZ Top’s tour.
2000 – A film company paid £635,000, ($1,079,500) for over nine hours of film shot during the 70s by Yoko Ono. The film contained shots of Lennon smoking hash and talking about his political beliefs.
2001 – A stretch of road on Highway 19 in Macon, Georgia, was named Duane Allman Boulevard, near where the Allman Brothers guitarist died aged 24 in a motorcycle crash on October 29, 1971.
2001 – A Bon Jovi-headlined concert at the Colonial Stadium in Melbourne grosses Australian $1.7 million to benefit flood-stricken farmers.
2001 – Sammy and Kari Hagar give birth to their second daughter in a Northern California hospital. Samantha Pastel Hagar weighs in at a healthy 6 lbs., 1 oz. and is the second child for the couple.
2002 – Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix becomes the proud father of a baby boy, Makaile Cielo Shaddix.
2005 – Anthrax announce they are reforming with their classic Among the Living line-up for a tour.
2008 – During a North American tour, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.
2008 – Neil Aspinall, who ran the Apple Corps music empire for the Beatles from 1970 – 2007 died at a hospital in New York from cancer aged 66.
2010 – Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen announced his first Russian concert appearances in 21 years.
2017 - Pete Shotton, a former member of John Lennon's pre-Beatles group The Quarrymen, passed away at the age of 75
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