Born on this Day: the great Ronnie Van Zant, Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist, born in Jacksonville, Florida 1948.
1967 – The Rolling Stones performed on TV’s Ed Sullivan Show and were forced to change their lyrics of “Let’s Spend the Night Together” to “Let’s Spend Some Time Together.”
1976 – Joe Walsh is hired to replace Bernie Leadon on guitar for The Eagles.
1981 – Phil Collins appears on TOP of the Pops TV Show in the UK and plays “In The Air Tonight” with a paint can and brush nearby as props, seemingly a reference to the painter with whom his first wife cheated on him.
2010 – Charlie Daniels is taken to the hospital after suffering a stroke. Daniels recovers and is released from the hospital two days later.