History Highlight:

Today in 2013, Public Enemy became the fourth hip-hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the others that preceded PE into the Hall were Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Run-DMC, and the Beastie Boys). Other 2013 inductees were Rush, Heart, Albert King, Donna Summer, and Randy Newman.

Also, Today In:

1969 - The Beatles record "Old Brown Shoe" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)."

1973 - 19-year-old Declan "Costello" McManus played his first solo gig in Twickenham, England. He would change his first name to Elvis by the time his 1977 debut, My Aim Is True, was released.

1975 - John Lennon released his cover of "Stand By Me."

1975 - Four Bay City Rollers fans were taken to the hospital and 35 others required on site treatment after they attempted to swim across a lake to meet their heroes.

1984 - Michael Jackson underwent surgery in a Los Angeles hospital to repair damage done after his hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.

1985 - Liberace breaks his own record at Radio City Music Hall, pulling in $2 million for his latest engagement.

1987 - Aretha Franklin and George Michael's duet "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" hit No. 1 in the U.S., returning Franklin to the top spot for the first time since "Respect" in 1967. The feat breaks the record for the longest span between No. 1 hits.

1988 - The trial began in Jamaica for the September 11, 1987, murder of reggae star Peter Tosh.

1988 - Legendary Motown songwriters Holland/Dozier/Holland were inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. The trio wrote, arranged and produced many songs that helped define the Motown sound in the 1960s.

1996 - Bernard Edwards (the bass guitarist for Chic) died of pneumonia at age 43 after a Chic concert at the Budokan Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

2003 - Etta James gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2012 - American Bandstand host Dick Clark died of a heart attack at age 82. Many artists got a huge boost after appearing on Bandstand, which he hosted from 1956 to 1989.

2013 - Cordell "Boogie" Mosson (bassist for Parliament-Funkadelic) died at age 60 of liver failure.

2015 - Green Day was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Birthdays:

Blues musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was born today in 1924.

Les Pattinson, co-songwriter and bassist for Echo and the Bunnymen, is 60.

Mark 'Bez' Berry, of Happy Mondays, is 54.

Greg Eklund of Everclear is 48.

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