1934 Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is born in Westmount, Quebec, Canada.
1947 Don Felder (Eagles lead guitarist) is born in Gainesville, Florida.
1957 Sam Cooke’s single “You Send Me” was released.
1964 The Rolling Stones played at The ABC in Hull, England.
1966 Jimmy Hendrix changes his name to Jimi at the urging of his manager Chas Chandler.
1968 Jimi Hendrix releases “All Along The Watchtower.
1969 Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Nash, Desmond Dekker and Jackie Edwards performed at London’s Empire Pool Caribbean Music Festival.
1972 Liam Gallagher is born William John Paul Gallagher in Burnage, Manchester, England. He forms Oasis with his older brother, Noel.
1976 Tom Waits releases Small Change, his third studio album
1979 Siouxsie and the Banshees played at Manchester’s Apollo Theatre with The Cure.
1980 The Michael Schenker group made their UK debut at Bristol’s Colston Hall.
1985 Madonna scored her first UK No.1 album with ‘Like A Virgin’, ten months after its release. The album spent a total 152 weeks on the UK chart.
1988 Def Leppard played at Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey.
1989 U2 played at Perth Entertainment Center in Australia
1991 Status Quo put themselves in the Guinness Book Of Records by appearing four venues in one day, Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham and London, performing all four in a 12-hour period.
1993 Nirvana release In Utero.
1997 Radiohead’s video for “Karma Police” debuts on the MTV show 120 Minutes.
1998 The live Bee Gees CD “One Night Only” was released in Europe.
2002 Paul McCartney performed at The Bradley Center, Milwaukee.
2004 Green Day release American Idiot, their first album in four years.
2012 No Doubt release the album Push and Shove
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