1970: Elton John made his solo concert debut at London’s Roundhouse opening for T. Rex & Spooky Tooth.
1973: Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies album, tops the album chart.
1980: Pete Townshend released his first solo album Empty Glass.
1990: Paul McCartney sets a new world record for concert attendance by a single artist as 184,000 people watched him perform at a concert in Rio.
1990: Van Halen performed at the opening night of its “Cabo Wabo Cantina” in Mexico. The venue was initially a failure Sammy Hagar would buy out his band-mates, years later the venue would became a major resort.
2001: R.E.M.’s Peter Buck was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport after allegedly assaulting crewmembers while drunk during a flight from Seattle to London. The next year Buck was later found innocent of all charges.
2005: Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson was sentenced to 12 months-probation stemming from resisting arrest during a run in with the law in Naples, Florida on New Year’s Eve 2003.