1985 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Everything She Wants,” Wham!
1972 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Oh Girl,” Chi-Lites.
1971 – No. 1 Billboard Album: “Sticky Fingers,” the Rolling Stones.
1967 – Florence Ballard appears with the Supremes for the last time on “The Tonight Show.”
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1966 – Bruce Springsteen, at age 16, begins his songwriting career in the back of a ‘61 Mercury en route to a recording studio.
1966 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “When a Man Loves a Woman,” Percy Sledge.
1959 – Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) of the Smiths is born in Manchester, England.
1958 – Arriving in England for a tour, Jerry Lee Lewis tells the world he’s married his 13-year-old cousin Myra.
1954 – Jerry Dammers (Gerald Dankin) of the Specials is born in Ootacamund, South India.
1954 – Bob Dylan has his bar mitzvah in Hibbing, Minn.
1950 – Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin is born in Lincolnshire, England.
1936 – Dallas Taylor of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is born in Chicago.