1940 – Stuart Sutcliffe, the fifth Beatle and one of the world’s worst bass players, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1941 - Robert Hunter-lyricist for the Grateful Dead is born
1965 – The Yardbirds appeared at The City Hall, Salisbury, England, admission 10 shillings, ($1.40).
1966 – The Beatles fly to Germany, where they will begin their last world tour. The Rolling Stones depart London the same day to begin a tour of America.
1967 – John Entwistle bass player from The Who married Alison Wise.
1973 – George Harrison started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Living In The Material World’, his second US No.1.
1975 – Jefferson Starship release Red Octopus. Rolling Stone celebrates Marty Balin’s return to the fold by saying, “If it weren’t for Balin, Red Octopus would be completely unlistenable.”
1975 – Alice Cooper falls from stage at a Vancouver, British Columbia concert, breaking six ribs.
1977 – A very inebriated Keith Moon joins Led Zeppelin onstage in Los Angeles.
1979 – The No. 1 album in the U.S. is Supertramp’s Breakfast in America.
1979 – The Knack release “My Sharona.”
1981 – Guitarist Robert Fripp re-forms King Crimson with Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew, and Tony Levin.
1984 – Van Halen release the all-time driving classic “Panama.”
1994 – A daughter, Francesca is born in Tarzana, California to Gilby and Daniella Clarke. Gilby Clarke is the guitarist for Guns ‘N Roses.
2000 – Neil Young is honored in Toronto with a star on the Canada Walk Of Fame.
2004 – A statement appears on Dave Navarro’s Web site claiming Jane’s Addiction have split for good.
2004 – Bob Dylan was awarded an honorary degree by the University of St. Andrews, Scotland’s oldest University and made a “Doctor of Music.”
2006 – Robert Plant leads the bill for a June 23 benefit concert for Love principal Arthur Lee, who is battling lukemia.
2016 - Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin won a copyright lawsuit that claimed they had plagarized the music to their most celebrated song, "Stairway to Heaven". A Los Angeles jury determined that the lawyer representing the estate of late guitarist Randy Wolfe, who played with the group Spirit, did not prove that the band lifted the song's intro from Spirit's 1968 instrumental "Taurus".
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