1944 - Mick Ralphs from Mott The Hoople is born
1948 – John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) is born this day
1956 - Buddy Holly, sees the John Wayne movie The Searchers and gains some song writing inspiration when Wayne utters the line "That'll be the day."
1961 – Chuck Berry opened an amusement called “Berry Park” near St Louis
1962 – The Beatles performed at the Star-Club in Hamburg, West Germany
1969 – Jimi Hendrix appears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine
1973 - Steely Dan received their first Gold record for their debut album Can’t Buy a Thrill which went on to be certified Platinum 20 years later.
1975 - The Eagles release "One Of These Nights", which will become the second of their five US number one singles.
1976 - The Who entered the Guinness Book of World Records for performing the loudest concert in history at the time during their concert at England’s Charlton Athletic Grounds with 76,000 watts at 120 decibels. This record would stand for nearly a decade.
1977 - Britain's BBC announced a ban on the Sex Pistols' anti-royalist song "God Save The Queen", saying it is 'in gross bad taste'.
1979 - Supertramp perform at New York's Madison Square Garden, where they receive a Gold record for their million selling album "Breakfast In America".
1989 - Keith Richards is given the Living Legend Award at New York’s International Rock Awards. Later an all-star jam takes places featuring Richards, Eric Clapton & Tina Turner.
1993 – Rocker Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorothea Hurley have their first child in Red Bank, N.J. They name their daughter Stephanie Rose.
1995 – Bob Dole blasts Hollywood, singling out Time Warner for “the marketing of evil” in movies and music. He later admits he hasn’t seen or heard much of what he’s criticized.
1999 – “Behind the Music,” VH1’s highest-rated original series, begins airing at 9 p.m. nightly. The broadcasts kick off with the premiere of “The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music.”
1999 - Phil Kramer, who took Lee Dorman's place when Iron Butterfly re-formed in 1975, was found in a canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, over four years after he called a police to say he was going to commit suicide. At the time of his death, he was 42.
2005 – The Salvation Army close Strawberry Fields, a Liverpool children’s home which inspired the Beatles’ song, “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
2006 – A few hundred lucky fans pack into New York’s Avalon to witness Pearl Jam tape an episode of the VH1 series “Storytellers,” which premieres a month later on the music channel.
2017 - More than twenty years after his death, Jerry Garcia's favorite guitar was sold at a New York auction for $3.2 million dollars. The money raised was donated to the Southern Poverty Law Centre.
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