1948 : Elvis Presley’s family moves from Tupelo to Memphis.

1954 : The first ‘teen idol’, Frank Sinatra was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Three Coins In The Fountain,’ the singer’s first UK No.1. The song was The Academy Award winning Best Original Song of 1954.

1963 : The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘She Loves You’, the group’s second No.1. It became the biggest seller of the year and the biggest selling Beatles single in the UK.

1964 : The Supremes, The Shangri-La’s, Marvin Gaye, Dusty Springfield, The Ronettes, Millie Small, The Temptations, The Miracles and Little Anthony and the Imperials all appeared at The Fox Theatre, Brooklyn, New York.

1966 : The Roger Miller Show debuts on NBC the same night.

1966 : The Monkees TV show makes its debut, with 4 actors chosen to portray a pop band based on The Beatles. While The Monkees are a fictional band, they become very real, and eventually play on their own recordings instead of studio musicians. The series ran for a total of 58 episodes.

1967 : Filming continued for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour. The bus headed for Widecombe on the Moor, where a local fair was being held but the bus driver (Alf Manders) took a shortcut to bypass heavy traffic and ended up stuck on a bridge, the coach ended up having to drive in reverse for a half-mile before it could turn around. They then head for Plymouth, followed by a 20-car convoy of journalists and photographers.

1970 : Creedence Clearwater Revival scored their first UK No.1 album with ‘Cosmo’s Factory’. It enjoyed a nine-week run at No.1 in the US where it sold over three million copies.

1970 : Smokey Robinson and The Miracles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘The Tears Of A Clown’, their first UK No.1. Stevie Wonder (who was discovered by Miracles member Ronnie White), and his producer Hank Cosby wrote the music for the song.

1970 : Bob Dylan joined Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at the Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert held at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.

1979 : This week’s UK Top 5 singles: No.5, Dollar, ‘Love’s Gotta Hold On Me’, No.4, ELO, ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’, No.3, The Crusaders, ‘Street Life’, No.2, Cliff Richard, ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’, No.1, Gary Numan, ‘Cars.’

1980 : ABC-TV’s 20/20 program airs a report questioning the official cause of Elvis Presley’s death.

1986 : Public Image Ltd guitarist John McGeoch needed 40 stitches in his face after a two-litre wine bottle was thrown at the stage during a gig in Vienna.

1987 : Michael Jackson started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Bad’, his follow up to the ‘Thriller’ album It stayed at No.1 on the US chart for six weeks.

1987 : The soundtrack album ‘La Bamba’ featuring Los Lobos started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart.

1987 : Michael Jackson kicked of his Bad World Tour by playing the first of three sold-out nights at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. By the end of the 123-date tour, Jackson had played to over 4million fans across fifteen countries.

1989 : Aerosmith released ‘Pump’ their tenth studio album which featured the hit singles: ‘Love In An Elevator’, ‘The Other Side’ and ‘Janie’s Got a Gun’. Aerosmith found themselves in law school textbooks after a small rock band named Pump sued Aerosmith’s management company for service mark infringement. Aerosmith won the case.

1990 : Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac announced they were leaving the band at the end of their current tour.

1995 : INXS singer Michael Hutchence pleaded guilty to punching photographer Jim Bennett outside a London hotel. He was fined £400 and ordered to pay £1,875 costs.

1997 : Founder of the Polar Music record label, songwriter, producer and Abba’s manager Stig Anderson died of a heart attack. Anderson co-wrote some of Abba’s biggest hits, such as ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘S.O.S’, ‘Fernando’, ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ and ‘The Name of the Game.’ His funeral was broadcast live on Swedish television an honour otherwise only reserved for distinguished statesmen or royalty.

2002 : The son of Rod Stewart was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to undergo drug rehabilitation after pleading no contest to attacking a man outside a Malibu, California restaurant. 22 year-old Sean Stewart had been arrested on Dec. 5th, 2001, after he was seen kicking the man in the face and stomach. Stewart was also sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $5,600 to the victim.

2003 : Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five is paralyzed in a fall on his estate in Spain.

2003 : Johnny Cash, US singer songwriter died of respiratory failure aged 71. One of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, known as “The Man in Black.” He traditionally started his concerts by saying, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” Had the 1969 US No.2 & UK No.4 single ‘A Boy Named Sue’, plus 11 other US Top 40 singles. Cash also had his own US TV show in late 60’s early 70’s.

2004 : American drummer and arranger Kenny Buttrey died in Nashville, Tennessee, Worked with Neil Young, (Harvest, and After the Gold Rush), Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde, Nashville Skyline & John Wesley Harding), and Bob Seger, Elvis Presley, Donovan, George Harrison, Joan Baez, Dan Fogelberg, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Buffett, Chuck Berry and Area Code 615.

2004 : Former Westlife member Brian McFadden scored his first and only solo UK No.1 single with ‘Real To Me.’ Natasha Bedingfield went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her debut release ‘Unwritten.’

2006 : Marianne Faithfull announces she has breast cancer (seven weeks later she says she has made a “full recovery”).

2007 : The Elvis: Viva Las Vegas documentary airs on ABC-TV.

2007 : The surviving members of Led Zeppelin announced they would reform for a star-studded tribute concert in London. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones would play at a show to remember the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. The place of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980, would be taken by his son Jason. The one-off concert, the trio’s first performance for 19 years, would take place at the O2 arena in London on 26th November with tickets costing £125. All profits from the show would go towards scholarships in Ertegun’s name in UK, the USA and Turkey, the country of his birth.