1951 David Coverdale is born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland, England.
1960 The Beatles played at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany.
1962 Bob Dylan made his first appearance at Carnegie Hall.
1962 Johnny Cash at The White Horse Academy, Trenton, New Jersey.
1965 The Supremes record “I Hear A Symphony.”
1967 The Beatles appear (as an abstract drawing) on the cover of Time magazine.
1972 David Bowie performed at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio.
1976 Bob Dylan’s live album, Hard Rain, was certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) just nine days after its release.
1978 Tom Waits makes his film debut in Paradise Alley, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, playing a bar-dwelling piano player named Mumbles.
1979 Joe Walsh announces his bid for the US presidency (he obviously doesn’t win).
1983 Everly Brothers performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
1984 John Waite went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Missing You.”
1984 Echo And The Bunnymen, Spear Of Destiny, The Sisters Of Mercy, The Redskins and The Chameleons all appeared at the first York Rock Festival, York, England.
1985 Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty played at the first Farm Aid concert at the Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois, Champaign.
1989 Composer/lyricist Irving Berlin dies at age 101 in New York City.
1989 Bruce Springsteen joined Jimmy Cliff onstage and they sang “Trapped.”
1989 Irving Berlin died at the age of 101.
1998 “Iris” hitmakers The Goo Goo Dolls release their smash album Dizzy Up The Girl
1992 MTV Unplugged renamed one episode MTV Plugged when Bruce Springsteen played an electric set on the show.
1998 The album Psycho-Circus by KISS was released.
1999 Diana Ross was arrested on the Concorde aircraft after an incident at Heathrow Airport
2002 Sting receives an Emmy for his A&E documentary Sting in Tuscany: All This Time
2004 Cat Stevens, who now goes by the name of Yusuf Islam, was escorted from a diverted transatlantic flight and refused entry into America by FBI agents.
2012 Taylor Swift’s single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” notches its third week at #1 on the Hot 100
2018 Paul McCartney’s album Egypt Station hits #1 in America
