2010 - Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthraxplay on the same bill, marking the first time the "Big Four" of thrash metal do a show together.
2007 - 61-year-old Rod Stewart marries his third wife, 35-year-old model Penny Lancaster, on board the yacht Lady Ann Magee in Portofino, Italy.
1999 - Phil Collins gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1995 - Pearl Jam began a tour without using Ticketmaster. They chose to use a mail order ticket service.
1990 - The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black," re-released in the Netherlands as a single, climbs to the top of the charts 24 years after its initial release.
1987 - Cherry Garcia is born when Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) officially gives permission for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream to name a new flavor after him.
1982 - James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitarist for The Pretenders) dies of heart failure due to cocaine intolerance at age 25.
1980 - The movie The Blues Brothers, adapted from John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's classic SNL skit, premieres in Chicago.
A love letter of sorts to '60s R&B and soul, it will help re-establish the careers of its musical co-stars, including James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin.
1977 - Beatlemania opened on Broadway.
1972 - David Bowie unveils his landmark album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.His breakthrough LP, it sells over 7 million copies and is hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time.
The concept album serves as the introduction to Bowie's most iconic of reincarnations: Ziggy Stardust, a flame-haired Martian messiah who visits Earth in an attempt to bring a message of hope to humanity in their final five years of existence. Flamboyantly dressed and dazzlingly androgynous, Stardust helps revolutionize ideas about gender and sexuality like never before.
1970 - The organizers of the Woodstock music festival report that they have lost over $1.2 million on the event (money which they will later make up through movie and soundtrack rights).
1967 - The first Monterey International Pop festival begins at the County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. It's the first of many big Rock festivals, with The Who, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and The Animals among those performing. Many consider it the beginning of the "Summer of Love."