1946 – Alan Gorrie of Average White Band is born in Perth, Scotland.
1947 - Bernie Leadon-guitarist for Eagles born
1947 – Queen guitar king Brian May is born in Twickenham
1948 – Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux (1973-79) is born in San Francisco.
1952 - Allen Collins-guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd born this very day
1963 – Another setback for the still-struggling Rolling Stones. On their way to perform at the coming-out party of the daughter of an English lord, Brian Jones falls ill. The Stones have to cancel and Mick Jagger will have to wait a decade to hobnob with royalty.
1969 – Having just turned 28, Spencer Davis decides to break up the Spencer Davis Group.
1969 - The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" is released in the US, where it will become the fifth of their eight Billboard number one hits.
1973 – Byrds guitarist Clarence White is buried after being killed by a drunk driver. He was 29.
1974 – David Bowie wraps up his tour supporting Diamond Dogs in New York.
1976 – Deep Purple split up for the first time
1980 – Production of The Elephant Man starring David Bowie opens in Denver.
1986 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Invisible Touch,” Genesis.
1986 - Van Halen headlined the Texas Jam at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Other acts on the bill included Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Loverboy, Dio & Krokus.
1987 - Bruce Springsteen played his first ever show behind the Iron Curtain when he appeared in East Berlin in front of 180,000 people. The show was broadcast on East German TV.
1991 – Drummer Steve Adler files suit in Los Angeles against his former band, Guns N’ Roses. The 26-year-old claims band members pressured him to use heroin and then dropped him after he entered a rehabilitation program.
1999 – “Weird Al” Yankovic kicks off his Running With Scissors tour in Green Bay
2000 – Creed accuse Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst “of a mobster mentality” in his bid to get TapRoot signed to his label, Interscope.
2003 – The troubled Lollapalooza tour with Jane’s Addiction and Audioslave cancels an upstate New York date, citing rising production costs.
2006 – Thom Yorke has more reasons to be unhappy. The Radiohead frontman’s solo disc The Eraser debuts at No. 2 in the U.S. album charts, right below hits compilation Now That’s What I Call Music.
2010 - Ozzy Osbourne and his former Black Sabbath band mate Tony Iommi settled a long-running legal dispute over the use of the group's name.
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