History Highlight:

Today in 1992, American blues singer/guitarist/bassist Willie Dixon died of heart failure. He wrote the classic songs "You Shook Me", "I Can't Quit You Baby", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Little Red Rooster". Dixon was a major influence on The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin.

Also, in:

1961 - Bob Dylan achieved his dream of meeting his idol Woody Guthrie, when Guthrie was on weekend release from the hospital where he was being treated for Huntington's Chorea. Dylan told him, "I was a Woody Guthrie jukebox." Guthrie gave Dylan a card which said: "I ain't dead yet."

1967 - Jimi Hendrix and The Who appeared at The Saville Theater, London, England. 20 year-old future Queen guitarist, Brian May, was in the audience.

1969 - Fleetwood Mac reached number one on the U.K. Singles Chart for the only time with the instrumental, "Albatross".

1977 - Aerosmith reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the second time as "Walk This Way" peaked at number ten.

1983 - Australian group Men At Work went No. 1 on the British and American singles and album charts simultaneously with "Down Under" and Business As Usual.

1998 - Paul Simon's musical "The Capeman" opened in New York.

2006 - Arctic Monkeys went No. 1 on the U.K. album chart with their debut album Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not.

2014 - More than 100,000 people signed a petition to deport Canadian citizen Justin Bieber out of America. The campaign followed his arrest earlier this month for drunk driving and driving without a valid license.

Birthdays:

James Jamerson, bassist who played with The Funk Brothers on many Motown hits by The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, Martha And The Vandellas, was born today in 1936.

Tommy Ramone (born Thomas Erdelyi), the drummer from the Ramones, was born today in 1949.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, and Wikipedia.