1952 – David Byrne, lead singer of the Talking Heads, is born in Dumbarton, Scotland.
1955 – “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley & the Comets first enters the top 40. It would become the first No. 1 record of the rock era.
1956 – Buddy Holly’s optometrist has him try contact lenses, but Holly decides he didn’t like them, and sticks with his famous glasses.
1962 – Ian Astbury, the wolf child of the Cult, is born in the badlands of Heswall, England.
1963 – Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille is born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1964 – London Records prepares a giant promotion – ‘Watch Out USA Here They are! The Rolling Stones! They’re great! They’re outrageous! They’re rebels! They sell! They’re England’s hottest – but hottest group!’
1966 – Mike Inez, Alice In Chains, Ozzy Osbourne, is born
1968 – Paul McCartney and John Lennon make a guest appearance on The Tonight Show to announce the creation of Apple Corps.
1976 – Keith Relf of the Yardbirds dies of electrocution at the age of 33.
1977 - Heart released their second album Little Queen which went on to peak at number nine on the Billboard 200 Album Chart & sell three million copies in the U.S.
1988 – Atlantic Records’ 40th anniversary celebration at New York’s Madison Square Garden sees the surviving members of Led Zeppelin reunited with John Bonham’s son Jason on drums.
1993 – Sold at a sale at Christies, London, four ‘Super Hero’, Costumes worn by the group Kiss, for £20,000.
1998 – Ticketmaster group reports it sold 522,926 tickets worth 19.5 million over its Internet site, Ticketmaster Online, during the first quarter of the year.
2003 – Former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton says his band Mr. Bungle “is over.”
2008 – Metallica kicked off a 26-date North American and European tour at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California.
2013 - The Massachusetts Appeals Court reinstated a defamation lawsuit filed by Boston founder Tom Scholz against the ex-wife of the band's late lead singer, Brad Delp. Delp committed suicide in 2007 and Scholz claimed that remarks Micki Delp made to the Boston Herald could be construed as blaming Scholz for his death
2015 - Blues legend B.B. King passed away at the age of 89.
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