1979 – Led Zeppelin reaches the top of the Album Charts when “In Through the Out Door” begins a seven week run on top.
1982 – Queen play their last American concert with Freddie Mercury at the Los Angeles Forum, On Queen’s following tours with Mercury, they would skip America.
1988 – Mark Knopfler announces the official end of Dire Straits. They would reunite in 1991 and then spilt up for good in 1995.
2008 – Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright dies of cancer in London, England, at age 65. He was a founding member and played on all but one of their albums.
2019 – Cars frontman Ric Ocasek dies at the age of 75.