1962 - David Bowie
The Konrads (featuring Dave Jay later to become David Bowie) made their live debut when they played at Bromley Technical School in Kent, England.

1965 - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan recorded Like A Rolling Stone at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the sessions for the forthcoming Highway 61 Revisited album. Session musicians included Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, whose Hammond organ on Like A Rolling Stone became one of rocks most recognizable sounds.

1967 - Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd released their second single See Emily Play which was written by original frontman Syd Barrett. The slide guitar work on the song was done by Barrett using a plastic ruler.

1979 - Electric Light Orchestra
The Electric Light Orchestra started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Discovery their first No.1 LP, featuring the tracks Shine A Little Love, Dont Bring Me Down and The Diary Of Horace Wimp.

1990 - Roxette
Roxette started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with It Must Have Been Love. The song, taken from the film Pretty Woman became the duos third US No.1 and a No.3 hit in the UK.

1996 - Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugees, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Lee Hooker, Beck, Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, De La Soul and Richie Havens all appeared at the two-day Tibetan Freedom Concert, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: A sell-out crowd of over 100,000 made it the largest US benefit concert since Live Aid in 1985.

2000 - Snoop Dogg
On the first night of his Up in Smoke tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Doggs tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested.

2013 - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath established a new UK chart record for the longest gap between No.1 albums when their new release, 13 debuted at the top of the charts, 42 years and 8 months after their second album Paranoid reached No.1.