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- Bon Jovi reached No. 1 on the UK album chart for the first time with “New Jersey”. The band’s fourth album also topped the charts in the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, and Switzerland. It produced five Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest number of Top 10 hits at the time for a hard rock album; “Bad Medicine” and “I’ll Be There for You” reached No. 1.
- Brittany Howard, an American musician, singer, and guitarist, was born in Athens, Alabama. She later formed the band Alabama Shakes with her high-school friend Zac Cockrell, serving as its lead singer and guitarist; she is also known as a member of Thunderbitch. Alabama Shakes' 2012 debut album “Boys & Girls” included the hit “Hold On” and earned the group numerous awards. Their second album, “Sound & Color,” released in 2015, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and won four Grammy Awards. Howard began her solo career in 2018, when Alabama Shakes went on hiatus.
- A$AP Rocky, born Rakim Athelaston Mayers, was born in Harlem, New York. He was named Rakim after the legendary rapper Rakim of the duo Eric B. & Rakim. In 2007, he joined the rap collective A$AP Mob and adopted the stage name A$AP Rocky. In 2011, he attracted major attention with the song “Peso” and subsequently with his debut mixtape Live. Love. A$AP. His 2012 single “Fuckin' Problems,” featuring Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar, became his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 8; it also received a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Song. In 2013, he released his debut studio album Long. Live. A$AP, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and, according to the original record, sold more than two million copies.
- Keith Richards released his first solo album, Talk Is Cheap. The album was created during a period of tension within the Rolling Stones, and its release was connected with the disagreements between Richards and Mick Jagger at the time.
- Twenty-year-old Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, married her first husband, musician Danny Keough. They had two children together – daughter Riley Keough, born May 29, 1989, and son Benjamin Storm Keough, born October 21, 1992. They divorced on May 6, 1994, after nearly six years of marriage. Even after ending their relationship, they remained close friends and devoted co-parents.
- Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Bach flew to Tucson, Arizona, where they entered the Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Clinic for treatment of alcohol and drug addiction. They completed an approximately six-week program together and subsequently returned to England.
- American singer, cellist, and beatboxer Kevin Olusola, a member of the a cappella group Pentatonix, was born in Owensboro, Kentucky.
- The documentary film Imagine: John Lennon, commissioned by Yoko Ono and directed by Andrew Solt, premiered in theaters.
- Def Leppard's “Love Bites” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the band's only single to top the chart; “Pour Some Sugar on Me” peaked at No. 2.
- Keith Richards appeared as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, where he performed his first solo song, “Take It So Hard.”
- Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon finally left the Billboard album chart after a record 741 weeks. Following a later rule change that allowed catalog albums to return to the main chart, the album returned repeatedly and reached a record 996 weeks on the chart at the beginning of 2026. It has sold approximately 50 million copies worldwide.
- U2 achieved their first No. 1 on the UK singles chart with their twelfth single, “Desire.” The song came from the album Rattle and Hum, also reached No. 1 in Australia and five other countries, and peaked at No. 3 in the US.
- Cliff Gallup, guitarist with Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, died of a heart attack at the age of 58. He had played on Gene Vincent's 1956 hit "Be-Bop-A-Lula", which reached No. 7 in the US and No. 16 in the UK, but left the band later that year because he did not want to tour. At the time of his death he was director of maintenance and transportation for the Chesapeake, Virginia, city school system. At his family's request, local newspaper obituaries made no mention of his musical career.
- U2 released the live album Rattle And Hum.
- Sarah McLachlan released her debut album, Touch, on Nettwerk Records. The album was remixed and reissued the following year.
- Poison releases the single “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”