1948 – Richard Tandy (ELO) is born
1948 – Steve Tyler (Aerosmith) is born
1949 – Fred Sheehan (Boston) is born this day
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their “Bed-in” at the Amsterdam Hilton.
1976 - Genesis kicked off their first North American tour with Phil Collins singing for them in London, ON.
1980 - The Police performed in Bombay, India, the first western rock concert in Bombay in 10 years.
1994 – Soundgarden : Superunknown : US LP is no. 1 chart topper.
1998 – Chuck Negron files suit against his former Three Dog Night band mates, alleging that they breached a 1990 settlement agreement and interfered with his career.
2000 – Santana started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Supernatural.’
2000 – Phil Collins takes home the Oscar for best original song at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, earning his first golden statue for “You’ll Be In My Heart,”
2002 – Former Ozzy Osbourne/Motley Crue drummer Randy Castillo dies.
2006 – U2’s The Edge donated his favourite guitar a 1975 Gibson Les Paul to a charity he co-founded to replace instruments lost or destroyed when Hurricane Katrina hit the US.
2006 – Readers of Total Guitar magazine voted the guitar solo by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’ as the greatest guitar solo of all time.
2010 – Jimi Hendrix coming to Rock Band
2011 – Yes re-team with Trevor Horn, the producer behind their 1983 hit “Owner Of A Lonely Heart”
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