1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience play the first of three nights at the Cafe-a-Go-Go in New York City.
1969 - The Beatles start work on the John Lennon song “Come Together” at Abbey Road studios in London. It became the opening song on The Beatles' Abbey Road album and was later released as a double A-side single with George Harrison’s “Something”.
1973 - Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” begins a two week run at #1. Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later.
1977 - Despite protests, the Sex Pistols make their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops where they lip-synched to their third single, "Pretty Vacant". The performance helped push the song up the charts to #7 there.
1987 - Guns N' Roses release their debut album Appetite For Destruction becoming the best-selling debut album by a band in the US.
1990 - Roger Waters' performance of The Wall takes place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Wall eight months earlier. Over 350,000 people attended and the event was broadcast live throughout the world, with Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O’Connor and others taking part.
1994 - Oasis play their first ever American show as part of the New Music Seminar at Wetlands in New York City.
1995 - A judge in Los Angeles throws out a lawsuit against Michael Jackson by five of his former security guards. The guards had claimed they were fired for knowing too much about night-time visits by young boys to Jackson's estate. Jackson denied any improprieties.
2002 - Producer Gus Dudgeon, who worked with artists including Elton John, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Kiki Dee, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Strawbs, XTC, and Joan Armatrading, is killed at the age of 59 in a car accident along with his wife Sheila.
2004 - Composer Jerry Goldsmith dies after a long battle with cancer at the age of 75. Goldsmith created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows including Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare.
2005 - Long John Baldry, one of the founding fathers of British rock 'n' roll in the 1960s, dies of a chest infection. He was the inspiration for half of Reginald Dwight’s stage name: Elton John. (Sir Elton legally changed his name in 1972.)
2007 - Music mogul Don Arden, nicknamed “the Al Capone of Pop” for his uncompromising business practices, dies at the age of 81 at a Los Angeles nursing home. Arden managed Black Sabbath, ELO and the Small Faces and was the father of Sharon Osbourne.
2017 - Justin Bieber is banned from performing in China, according to Beijing's Culture Bureau. In a statement, the ministry said it was not appropriate to allow in entertainers who have engaged in "bad behavior." Bieber who had previously toured China in 2013, joined a long list of similarly blacklisted artists like Oasis and Maroon 5.
Today’s Birthdays include…Herman’s Hermits drummer Barry Whitwam (74); singer/songwriter Cat Stevens aka Yusef Islam (72); and former Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin (59).
