Date: July 15, 1942

1942 : Glenn Miller releases "Jukebox Saturday Night"

Date: July 15, 1952

1952 : Eight-year-old prodigy Gladys Knight appears on the TV show Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, which was a precursor to shows like Star Search and American Idol. She wins the top prize of $2,000 for her performance of Nat King Cole's "Too Young."

Date: July 15, 1952

1952 : Popular singer Patti Page begins her summer replacement series on CBS, attempting to hold the audience in Perry Como's usual timeslot three times a week for 15 minutes.

Date: July 15, 1956

1956, The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love'. A No.6 hit in the US. At 13, Lymon was the youngest performer to make No.1.

Date: July 15, 1957

1957 : Elvis Presley's "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" b/w Loving You" hits #1

Date: July 15, 1958

1958, John Lennon's mother Julia was killed by a car driven by an off-duty drunken police officer named Eric Clague (Clague was later acquitted of the offence). John was 17 at the time.

Date: July 15, 1958

1958 : John Lennon's mother Julia is killed when she's hit by a car driven by an off-duty police officer. Lennon would later write the songs Julia and Mother about her.

Date: July 15, 1965

1965, This weeks US Top three singles, No.3 The Byrds, 'Mr Tambourine Man', No.2 The Four Tops, 'I Can't Help Myself' and at No.1 The Rolling Stones with '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'

Date: July 15, 1966

1966 : Percy Sledge's When A Man Loves A Woman is certified gold.

Date: July 15, 1966

1966, David Bowie & the Buzz appeared at the Loughton Youth Centre, Loughton, England.

Date: July 15, 1967

1967, This week's Top 5 UK albums; No.5, Fiddler On The Roof, Original Soundtrack, No.4, Are You Experienced, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, No.3, Sound Of Music, Soundtrack, No.2, Headquarters, The Monkees and No.1 The Beatles,Sgt. Pepper album.

Date: July 15, 1967

1967, The Doors and The Jefferson Airplane both played an afternoon and evening show to over 8,000 fans at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California.

Date: July 15, 1968

1968 : The Beatles' new enterprise, Apple, enters its new corporate headquarters on 3 Savile Row, London, later the site of their famous "rooftop concert."

Date: July 15, 1969

1969 : The Beatles release You Never Give Me Your Money

Date: July 15, 1972

1972 : Elton John's Honky Chateau hits #1

Date: July 15, 1972

1972, Elton John started a five week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Honky Chateau', his first US chart topper.

Date: July 15, 1973

1973 : At a festival concert in White City, London, a visibly distraught Ray Davies, newly separated from his wife, announces on stage that he's retiring from show business, leaves the concert, and checks into a local hospital for exhaustion. (A week later, he will return to the band.)

Date: July 15, 1973

1973, The Edgar Winter Group, Sly & The Family Stone, Canned Heat, Lindisfarne and The Kinks all appeared at The Great Western Express festival at White City, west London. With his wife having recently walked out of their marriage, taking their young children with her, Ray Davies of The Kinks announces from the stage that he is sick of the whole thing and is retiring. He then walks into a local hospital and collapses from an overdose of tranquillizers.

Date: July 15, 1978

1978 : The Rolling Stones' Some Girls hits #1

Date: July 15, 1978

1978, The Rolling Stones started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Some Girls the group's seventh US No.1 album. The cover designed by Peter Corriston, featured The Rolling Stones in garish drag alongside select female celebrities and lingerie ads. The cover immediately ran into trouble when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe who all threatened legal action.

Date: July 15, 1978

1978 : Bob Dylan performs at what was the biggest open-air concert in history for a solo artist, playing for over 200,000 at "The Picnic at Blackbushe" at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, England.

Date: July 15, 1978

1978 : Bob Dylan performs at what was the biggest open-air concert in history for a solo artist, playing for over 200,000 at "The Picnic at Blackbushe" at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, England.

Date: July 15, 1978

1978, Bob Dylan with special guest Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading and Graham Parker all appeared at Blackbushe Aerodrome, Surrey, England. Reputedly this was the biggest ever UK audience for Bob Dylan, with over 200,000 fans attending.

Date: July 15, 1980

1980 : Linda Ronstadt makes a well-received dramatic debut in Joseph Papp's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance in New York's Central Park, setting off a "Pirates" fad that would last for the next three years.

Date: July 15, 1985

1985, Nude photos of Madonna taken in 1977 appeared in this months Playboy and Penthouse Magazines.

Date: July 15, 1986

1986 : Run-DMC's Raising Hell becomes the first rap album certified platinum.

Date: July 15, 1986

1986 : Columbia Records, Johnny Cash's home for 28 years, drops the singer from its roster of artists.

Date: July 15, 1989

1989, Simply Red scored their second US No.1 single with 'If You Don't Know Me By Now', a 1973 UK hit for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.

Date: July 15, 1989

1989, Soul II Soul went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut release 'Club Classics Volume One'.

Date: July 15, 1989

1989 : 200,000 people turn out for a free Pink Floyd concert in Venice, Italy.

Date: July 15, 1989

1989, Pink Floyd appeared in Canal di San Marco, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy on a floating stage. Over 200,000 people attended the gig (almost double the number authorities had planned for) causing damage to buildings and bridges. The cleaning of the area after the concert was said to be around £25,000 and the concert was broadcast live on TV to over 20 countries with an estimated audience of almost 100 million. Two Venice councillors were later ordered to stand trial for the costs incurred by the concert.

Date: July 15, 1991

1991 : The 1991 version of Lynyrd Skynyrd starts a world tour in the city they never reached 14 years before: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That's where the band was headed on October 20, 1977 when a plane crash took the lives of three band members, their assistant road manager, and two pilots.

Date: July 15, 1994

1994, Wet Wet Wet were enjoying their sixth week at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Love Is All Around'. It went on to spend a total of 15 weeks at No.1.

Date: July 15, 1997

1997, Ary Groenhuijzen, keyboard player with US 50's group The Teddy Bears died. (1958 US No.1 single 'To Know Him, Is To Love Him').

Date: July 15, 1998

1998, Aerosmith were forced to cancel a forthcoming US tour after Joey Kramer was involved in a freak accident. The drummer's car set on fire and was completely destroyed as he was filling up with petrol. He was admitted to hospital with second-degree burns.

Date: July 15, 1999

1999 : The Rolling Stones report income of $337 million in the last two years, a result of 147 concerts in front of nearly six million fans.

Date: July 15, 2000

2000 : Bob Seger's 62-foot boat Lightning wins its division in the 78th annual sailboat race from Port Huron to Mackinac Island, MI.

Date: July 15, 2000

2000, A Manchester judge reprimanded Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder after he turned up a day late in court to give evidence. Ryder told the court he had been on 'a bender'. A man was cleared of dangerous driving and assaulting Ryder.

Date: July 15, 2000

2000, An Oasis fan was killed when he tried to walk home along the M61 motorway in Manchester, England after Oasis had played a sold-out gig at The Reebok stadium.

Date: July 15, 2000

2000, Sad Cafe singer Paul Young died of a heart attack at his Manchester home aged 53. ‘Run Home Girl’ was a hit for Sad Cafe in the US, ‘Everyday Hurts’ was a UK No.3 hit in 1979. Joined Mike Rutherford and Paul Carrack in Mike and the Mechanics and had the hits ‘The Living Years’ and ‘Silent Running’.

Date: July 15, 2002

2002, Sir Paul McCartney was named the highest-earning music star of the year so far after selling tickets worth £33.9m during his recent US tour.

Date: July 15, 2004

2004, U2 called in police after thieves nicked a copy of the bands latest album 'Vertigo'. The CD was stolen during a photo shoot with the band in the south of France.

Date: July 15, 2005

2005, Victor Edward Willis, the original policeman in the Village People, was arrested after police found a gun and drugs in his convertible in Daly City, south of San Francisco. Willis also had an outstanding $15,000 felony warrant for possession of narcotics.

Date: July 15, 2006

2006 : Sum 41 front man Deryck Whibley ties the knot with Avril Lavigne in Montecito, California. The marriage will last just over three years.

Date: July 15, 2007

2007, The Enemy went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns.'

Date: July 15, 2007

2007, The UK music industry reacted angrily at a decision to give away ‘Planet Earth’ the new album by Prince as a ‘covermount’ with the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The 10-track CD was not due to be released in stores until 24 July. Stephen Miron, the newspaper's managing director, said: "No one has done this before. We have always given away CDs and DVDs, but this is just setting a new level."

Date: July 15, 2007

2007 : Bret Michaels, lead singer of the band Poison, launches the VH1 reality TV showRock of Love. In it, dozens of women compete in a voting competition to get engaged to Bret Michaels, who never takes off his head rag or cowboy hat the entire time. The show runs for three seasons, during each of which, twenty-some women get eliminated and one woman gets the right to be Bret Michaels' girlfriend, but breaks it off with him shortly after the end of each season. Nobody sees anything weird about this at all.

Date: July 15, 2007

2007, Over 10,000 people applied for a job with P Diddy after the rapper posted an advert on Youtube looking to find a new personal assistant. He warned applicants that the job would be far from easy and would involve everything from getting him ready for the red carpet to aiding in billion dollar deals to helping him jump out of planes in movies.

Date: July 15, 2009

2009 : According to Billboard, since Michael Jackson's death which occurred on June 25, 2009, American consumers have purchased more than 2.3 million of his albums.

Date: July 15, 2009

2009 : 45 years after he played at the Ed Sullivan Theater with The Beatles, Paul McCartney returns to the venue to appear on The Late Show With David Letterman. Earlier in the day, McCartney plays a few songs from the theater's marquee, surprising the onlookers in Manhattan.

Date: July 15, 2011

2011 : To celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Adult Contemporary chart, which had various names over the years, including Easy Listening, Billboard publishes its list of the top 100 Adult Contemporary songs of all time, with Savage Garden's Truly Madly Deeplyat #1, followed by Lead Me On by Maxine Nightingale and Drift Away" by Uncle Kracker.

Date: July 15, 2012

2012, Queen were crowned top of the patriotic pops in a survey of 100,000 music fans. The band's anthem We Are The Champions was named number one by fans who were asked what song made them proud to be British. The track, which got to number two in 1977, picked up 13,000 votes in the survey carried out among users of the Lucky Voice website. It was followed by the Oasis hit Wonderwall which was nominated by 11,000 karaoke singers and then Let It Be by The Beatles which got 10,000 votes. Elton John's Candle In The Wind and London Calling by The Clash rounded off the top five.

Date: July 15, 2012

2012 : "Gangnam Style" is unleashed upon the world. Performed by K-Pop singer PSY, the song debuts on YouTube and becomes its most-watched video (ever. in history.), surpassing even Justin Bieber's hit "Baby" in that capacity. The song, partly in Korean, is about the lifestyle of the Gangnam district in Seoul, Korea. The video features PSY's now-famous signature dance moves and very tight editing along with several humorous scenes; it spawns several parodies, animated versions, and mash-ups. "Gangnam Style" goes on to become a worldwide phenomenon, with its dance moves attempted by US president Obama and British prime minister Cameron; it is also declared a "force for world peace" on the floor of the United Nations, no less.