1962 At Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles record their first British singles: “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You.”
1965 Electronica musician Moby is born Richard Melville Hall in Harlem, New York City.
1965 The Beatles’ Help! album hits #1 in America and stays for nine weeks.
1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience played two shows at the Grona Lund in Stockholm
1971 – The animated Jackson Five series premiered on ABC.
1973 Bruce Springsteen releases his second album, The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle.
1977 Jon Buckland (lead guitarist for Coldplay) is born in Islington
1977 Rapper Ludacris is born Christopher Brian Bridges in Champaign, Illinois
1978 Robert Palmer played at The Odeon, Birmingham, England
1979 – The Who made their first appearance in the U.S. without their late, great drummer, Keith Moon
1982 – Frank Zappa’s “Valley Girl” reached its chart peak of #32 on the Hot 100
1987 Reggae musician Peter Tosh is shot and killed at age 42 during a robbery in his home.
1988 Michael Jackson played at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England
1988 Metallica played at the MTK Football Stadium in Budapest, Hungary.
2009 Punk musician Jim Carroll dies of heart attack in Manhattan, New York City, at age 60.
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