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1958 The very first Gibson model Flying V guitar is shipped from a factory in Kalamazoo, Mich.
1970 Having been in release for only 15 weeks, Led Zeppelin II approaches sales of 2 million.
1981 AC/DC hits #37 with "Back In Black".
1983 'Thriller' tops the album charts for the first of 37 weeks.
1990 Paul McCartney is given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel) was a hit.
1989 Carlos Santana wins a Grammy for Best Instrumental Rock Performance for his album Blues for Salvador.
1990 Stevie Wonder wins a plagiarism lawsuit filed against him in Los Angeles over the song, "I Just Called To Say I Love You".
2001 The Sunday Mirror lists the Beatles as the biggest money-earners of 2000. Although they no longer exist, the band pulled in a tidy $50 million.
1974 Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (also know as the theme to the movie 'The Exorcist') debuts on the singles chart.
1975 Best of My Love (Eagles) was a hit.
1978 'Rumours' wins Album of the Year at the 20th annual Grammy Awards.
1980 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" tops the chart for the first of four weeks. Queen's first #1 hit also marks the first time singer Freddie Mercury plays guitar on record.
2003 Simon & Garfunkel sing together for the first time in ten years as they receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award
1974 Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacks) was a hit.
1982 John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 'Double Fantasy' wins Album of the Year for 1981 at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards.
1987 Paul Simon wins Album of the Year for 'Graceland'at the 29th annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. It is his 11th Grammy to date.
1988 Alice Cooper runs for governor of Arizona (and loses)
1998 Sir Elton John is knighted by England's Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
1943 George Harrison was born.
1957 Buddy Holly records "That'll Be the Day" at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. The single is released on the Brunswick label (a Decca subsidiary) and credited to the Crickets.
1963 The Beatles first U.S. single ("Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why" on Chicago's Vee-Jay Records) is released (and Dick Biondi of WLS radio in Chicago plays the "A" side-- the first U.S. DJ to play a Beatles tune)
1984 Van Halen his their first #1 with "Jump".
1932 Johnny Cash was born.
1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" (his first million-seller) debuts on the Billboard charts.
1965 'Freak Out,' the debut album by the Frank Zappa-led Mothers of Invention, is released. This double album contains "Help I'm a Rock" and "Trouble Every Day."
1967 Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones) was a hit.
1971 Rick Wakeman leaves the Strawbs to join Yes.
1978 (Love Is) Thicker Than Water (Andy Gibb) was a hit.
1967 Pink Floyd record their first single, "Arnold Layne," at Sound Techniques Studio in London. It reaches #20 on the British singles chart.
1971 'Pearl,' the album that Janis Joplin was making at the time of her death, hits #1 on the album charts, where it will stay for nine weeks.
1983 Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) was a hit.
1993 Off the Ground enters the U.S. chart at #17. A month later, Paul McCartney kicks off another world tour in Perth, Australia. 'Paul Is Live', his third live album, appears in November.
1970 Simon and Garfunkel hit #1 with "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
1970 Led Zeppelin perform in Denmark as "The Nobs" after the family of the late Ferdinand von Zeppelin threatens a lawsuit.
1975 Queen cancels six American tour dates because of Freddie Mercury's swollen throat.
1977 An audience member attacks Ray Charles onstage, trying to strangle him with a rope.
1994 Eric Clapton played his 100th performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in aid of the ‘Children In Crisis’, charity.
1966 London's 'Evening Standard' publishes an interview with John Lennon in which he states that the Beatles are "more popular than Jesus now." The comment provokes several protests, including the burning of Beatles records.
1972 The Eagles record their eponymous debut album with producer-engineer Glyn Johns in London.
1975 "The Best of My Love" becomes the Eagles' first #1 hit and million-selling single. Four more will follow: "One of These Nights" (1975), "New Kid in Town" (1977), "Hotel California" (1977) and "Heartache Tonight" (1979).
1994 Nirvana played their final ever concert when they appeared at The Terminal Einz in Munich, Germany.
1995 Bruce Springsteen wins four Grammys for “Streets of Philadelphia” from the Tom Hanks film “Philadelphia.”
1995 From the Cradle, an album of blues interpretations released the previous fall, wins Eric Clapton a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album.
1964 Beatles begin work on their first movie Hard Day’s Night in London, with director Richard Lester.
1985 Phil Collins: No Jacket Required UK LP is No. 1 in the UK.
1999 The Las Vegas House of Blues opens with a performance by Bob Dylan. U2’s Bono joins him to sing “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”
1999 Neil Young launches a solo tour in Vancouver, B.C. It is his first completely solo outing in more than 25 years.