Happy Birthday: Mick Taylor, The Rolling Stones guitarist, is born 1949
1970 – Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin 2 topped the album charts
1990 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted The Who, The Kinks, Simon & Garfunkel and others into the “Hall of Fame”.
1996 – David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, and The Velvet Underground are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1999 – At the American Music Awards, Billy Joel is given the Special Award of Merit for his “inspired songwriting skills” and “exciting showmanship.”
2018 – The Eagles settled a lawsuit with a hotel in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur after the establishment agreed to stop using the name Hotel California. Attorneys for the group successfully argued that the business was trying to capitalize on the success of The Eagles’ most famous song by implying that they were connected to the band.