1940 Frank Sinatra hosts the weekly radio program Fame and Fortune, which gives amateur songwriters the chance to compete for $100 and a publishing deal with NBC Music.
1957 The Elvis Presley film Jailhouse Rock premieres in Memphis, Tennessee.
1958 Country singer Alan Jackson is born in Newnan, Georgia.
1963 The Beatles record the first of their “Christmas Records,” spoken word greetings sent out on vinyl to members of their fan club.
1962 The Beatles made their first TV appearance in Britain on Granada Television’s People & Places. They sang “Love Me Do.”
1964 The Rolling Stones release their second American album, 12X5.
1966 Elvis Presley plays a race-car driver in his 22nd movie, Spinout, which premieres in Memphis, Tennessee.
1967 Traffic, The Young Rascals, Vanilla Fudge, Art and Keith West played at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
1967 Bob Dylan records “Drifter’s Escape,” “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine,” and “The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest.”
1969 Led Zeppelin played at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1969 The Kinks play their first US concert in four years when they open for Spirit at the Fillmore East in New York
1970 The Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” hits #1 for the first of five weeks.
1978 Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand record “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.”
1980 Bruce Springsteen releases The River.
1987 The Style Council played at the Apollo in Manchester.
1987 “Lost in Emotion” by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam goes to #1 in the US.
1992 The Frank And Walters appeared at The Junction, Cambridge with Radiohead as support.
1993 Criss Oliva (lead guitarist for Savatage) is killed by a drunk driver in Zephyrhills, Florida, at age 30.
1996 Composer Berthold Goldschmidt dies in London, England, at age 93
2000 Limp Bizkit go to Times Square in New York City to celebrate the release of their third album, Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water.
2005 Fats Domino returned to his Ninth Ward home for the first time since Hurricane Katrina to find it utterly destroyed, with his piano and several of his gold records among the ruined items.
2006 Stevie Wonder receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
2009 Johnny Depp presented Keith Richards with the ‘Rock Immortal’ Award at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California, as part of that year’s Scream Awards.
