Happy Birthday: Rod Stewart from the Jeff Beck Group, Faces and a tremendous solo career, born 1945.
Donald Fagen, vocalist and keyboardist for Steely Dan born 1948.
Pat Benatar, born 1953.
1969 – Frustrated at Paul McCartney’s dominance during the filming of Let It Be, George Harrison quits the Beatles, he would return a few days later.
1986 – Ted Nugent appeared on an episode of “Miami Vice.”
2003 – about 500 Beatles tapes known as the ‘Get Back sessions’ that were stolen in the 1970s were found after UK police cracked a major bootleg operation in London and Amsterdam. Five men were arrested.
2016 – David Bowie died of cancer at his New York home two days after releasing the album Blackstar on his 69th birthday. Throughout his life, his record sales, estimated at 140 million albums worldwide, made him one of the world’s best-selling music artists.