1938 Jan Savitt records “Quaker City Jazz.”
1952 Brent Mydland (fourth keyboardist for Grateful Dead) is born in Munich, Germany
1956 Elvis Presley visits his favorite local movie theater, the Memphian, and is beset by an adoring crowd who, in the ensuing melee, scratch his new Cadillac
1962 Cliff Richard appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1964 The movie musical My Fair Lady made its world premier in New York.
1965 Bill Black, a bandleader who played bass for Elvis Presley, dies of a brain tumor at age 39.
1967 Lulu’s “To Sir With Love” hits #1 in the US for the first of five weeks
1968 Johnny Cash wins best album at the Country Music Awards for his live release Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
1972 Curtis Mayfield’s Super Fly soundtrack hits #1 in America, where it stays for four weeks.
1974 Queen’s single “Killer Queen” was released.
1975 Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1976 Keith Moon plays what is to be his final show with The Who, a concert at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1977 Meat Loaf releases the landmark album Bat Out Of Hell.
1978 Neil Young releases Comes a Time, his 9th studio album
1992 Madonna’s book Sex is released.
1993 Aerosmith performed at Sheffield Arena, England.
1997 Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind ’97” was declared by the Guinness Book Of Records as the biggest-selling single record of all time
2005 Bob Seger sings the US national anthem before the World Series game between the Detroit Tigers and the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.
2006 Evanescence were at No.1 on the US album chart with their second album The Open Door.
2006 Meat Loaf releases the landmark album Bat Out Of Hell.
2006 Sandy West (drummer for The Runaways) dies of lung and brain cancer at age 47.
2011 Tom Waits releases Bad as Me, his 16th studio album
2016 Leonard Cohen releases his last album, You Want It Darker
