2001 - Slash was denied entry when he shows up at The Joint in Las Vegas, where his old band Guns N' Roses is playing.
1992 - Bill Wyman quits The Rolling Stones after over 30 years with the group.
1991 - A long legal battle over Bob Marley's estate ends when the nearly $12 million estate is awarded to his widow, Rita, and her children. In honor of the verdict, son Ziggy names his daughter, who was born that day, Justice Marley.
1989 - Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" hits #1.
1980 - The airwaves are filled with the music of John Lennon, who was shot and killed the previous evening.
1978 - The Blues Brothers release their first single, a cover of "Soul Man."
1974 - George Harrison releases Dark Horse.
1972 - "Tommy" was performed at London's Rainbow Theatre.
1972 - Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" is released.
1972 - The Moody Blues' Seventh Sojourn album hits #1 in America, where it stays for five weeks.
1967 - Jim Morrison is arrested at his own concert in New Haven, Connecticut, after a police officer finds him backstage with a young girl and maces