1955 – Disc jockey Alan Freed holds his first Rock `n’ Roll Party stage show in New York. Acts include the Clovers, Fats Domino and the Drifters.
1959 - Geoff Tate, singer for Queensryche is born
1960 – G.I. Elvis Presley is promoted to a sergeant.
1961 – Mike Tramp, singer with metal two-hit-wonders White Lion, is born in Denmark.
1963 – The Rolling Stones perform for the first time with new recruit Charlie Watts on drums at London’s Flamingo Jazz Club.
1963 – Bob Dylan performs on Richard Farina’s album Dick Farina, billing himself as Blind Boy Grunt.
1966 – David Bowie release his first single, “Can’t Help Thinking About Me,” on Parlophone Records.
1967 – The Jefferson Airplane perform at the Human Be-In in San Francisco, where attendees were asked to bring food, flowers, beads, feathers, bells and banners.
1967 – Born on this day, Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne Band.
1969 – Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters is born.
1972 – Yes played the first of two nights at the Rainbow Theatre, London.
1973 – Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is arrested on drugs possession charges.
1978 – The Sex Pistols perform before a sold-out crowd at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. At the end of an era-defining gig, Johnny Rotten asks the audience, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” and walks out on the band.
1982 – Born on this day, Caleb Followill, lead singer, rhythm guitarist, Kings of Leon.
1989 – Paul McCartney releases his album of rock covers, Back in the USSR, exclusively in the Soviet Union today.
1992 – Jerry Nolan drummer with The New York Dolls died from a fatal stroke.
1993 – US alternative group The Pixies announced that they had split.
1995 – Pearl Jam performs with Neil Young for a Voters for Choice benefit in Washington, DC.
1999 – Hard rock band Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, claiming that the lingerie and accessories manufacturer infringed on its trademark by marketing a line of “Metallica” lip pencils.
2000 – Melissa Etheridge tells Rolling Stone that David Crosby fathered her two children with Julie Cypher.
2003 – The Who’s Pete Townshend arrested at his London home on suspicion of a number of offenses connected with child pornography, including the making of indecent images. He is later released without being formally charged.
2003 – Linda Gail Lewis the sister of Jerry Lee Lewis, dropped a claim of sex discrimination against Van Morrison. Lewis had claimed that Morrison had ‘publicly humiliated’ her on stage and had tried to ruin her life by asking her for sex. She withdrew her claim after discussions with her lawyer. Morrison denied all the allegations.
2004 – The White Stripes’ Jack White pleads not guilty to assaulting the Von Bondies’ singer Jason Stollsteimer in December. White says he was acting in self-defense.
2005 – A $100,000 (£58,823) statue honouring the late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone was unveiled by his widow Linda at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
2011 – Who frontman Roger Daltrey revealed that, just before the band were set to play at the Super Bowl last year, he came face to face with his own mortality. “Suddenly my voice wasn’t behaving in a normal way. It was becoming hard work to sing,” Daltrey recalled.
Daltrey sought out the care of Dr. Steven Zeitels, Director of the Mass General Voice Center and professor at Harvard Medical School.
Daltrey was scheduled for surgery and underwent the knife the week before Christmas. “I got depressed after surgery, during what I call the big silence, that’s when I realized what it would be like to not have a voice,” Daltrey said. “I had two weeks of silence. Silence and no drinking. How’s that for a good Christmas. So, you know, it was the strangest Christmas I’ve ever had.”
2015 - According to a poll conducted by Forbes magazine, Fleetwood Mac tickets were the highest priced by touts.
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