1938 Country singer Melba Montgomery is born Iron City, Tennessee
1938 Bob Crosby and the Bob Cats record “Big Noise From Winnetka.”
1940 Pop singer Cliff Richard is born Harold Rodger Webb in Imperial India.
1942 Billy Harrison (guitarist/vocalist for Them) is born in Belfast, Ireland.
1946 Justin Hayward (guitarist for The Moody Blues) is born Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
1947 Al Atkins – the first frontman for Judas Priest – is born at West Bromwich, England.
1957 The Everly Brothers score their first #1 hit with “Wake Up Little Susie.”
1964 The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts marries Shirley Ann Shepherd, and in a remarkable display of fidelity, remains married to her the rest of his life.
1964 During a UK tour The Beatles played two shows at the ABC Cinema in Ardwick, Manchester.
1965 The Rolling Stones and The Spencer Davis Group appeared at The Odeon, Birmingham
1966 Grace Slick makes her first stage appearance with the band Jefferson Airplane at their Fillmore West gig in San Francisco.
1968 The Jackson Five made their national TV debut on ABC’s Hollywood Palace.
1969 The Supremes release “Someday, We’ll Be Together”
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on ABC-TV’s The Dick Cavett Show to promote John’s new album Imagine
1976 Aerosmith played at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool
1977 KISS release Alive II, recorded over three nights at the Forum in Los Angeles.
1977 Bing Crosby dies of a heart attack after finishing a round of golf in Spain, at age 74.
1983 Cyndi Lauper, formerly a member of the group Blue Angel, issues her first solo album, She’s So Unusual
1987 Bryan Adams with support group T’Pau appeared at Newcastle City Hall, England.
1988 Bruce Springsteen appeared at Estadio Mundialista, Mendoza, Argentina
1994 Pulp Fiction opens in theaters, reviving classic ’60s songs such as “Misirlou,” “Son Of A Preacher Man” and “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon.”
1998 Janet Jackson set off on a 10 date US tour at the Baltimore arena with *NSYNC
1998 B.B. King picks up a lifetime achievement award at the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London
2000 The Beatles’ official autobiography Anthology hit No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.
2003 Barbra Streisand releases The Movie Album.
2006 Country/rock singer and guitarist Freddy Fender dies of lung cancer in Corpus Christi, Texas, at age 69.
2009 Paul McCartney was named Songwriter of The Year at the 29th Annual ASCAP Awards in London, England
2020 Post Malone won nine awards including top artist at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
