2015 - Ray and Dave Davies (The Kinks) performed together for the first time in twenty years when Ray joined his brother on stage at London's Islington Assembly Hall.
2012 - Mick Jagger appears on The Late Show With David Letterman where he read The Top 10 Things I've Learned After 50 Years In Rock And Roll. One of the things on the list was "Nobody wants to hear anything from your new album."
2001 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) won a court battle with ex-wife Pamela Anderson.
1998 - Alice Cooper's Cooper'stown restaurant opens in Phoenix.
1983 - Keith Richards marries model Patti Hansen during a ceremony in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
1981 - On his 38th birthday, Keith Richards is playing with The Rolling Stones at a show in Hampton, Virginia, when a fan rushes the stage.
1981 - Rod Stewart's concert at the Forum in Los Angeles is broadcast via satellite to an audience estimated at 35 million. Tina Turner joins Stewart for - what else - "Hot Legs."
1975 - Rod Stewart leaves The Faces.
1962 - The Beatles begin their last series of performances at The Star Club in Hamburg, Germany.
1961 - Britain's EMI Records rejected the Beatles. They later signed them.
Birthdays
- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is born in Dartford, Kent, England, in 1943.
- Chas Chandler (bassist for The Animals, Jimi Hendrix Experience) is born Bryan James Chandler in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, England., in 1938