Birthday Highlight:

Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell was born today in 1959, making him 60 today. In addition to his work with Jane's Addiction, which formed in 1985, Farrell created the touring festival Lollapalooza and led the alternative rock groups Porno for Pyros and Satellite Party. Fun fact: He is the only person who has performed at all twelve Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals to date, having appeared under five different names (Perry Farrell, Jane's Addiction, DJ Peretz, Satellite Party, and with Hybrid).

Also, Today In:

1966 - Mick Jagger was injured during a Rolling Stones gig in France after a fan threw a chair at the stage. Jagger required eight stitches in the cut.

1967 - The Beatles recorded "With a Little Help from My Friends" at Abbey Road Studios in London.

1973 - Shortly after having a hit with Shel Silverstein's "The Cover of the Rolling Stone", Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show were on the cover of Rolling Stone in caricature.

1975 - Led Zeppelin had all six of their albums in the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Among those six [Led Zeppelin (1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III (1970), Led Zeppelin IV (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), and Physical Graffiti (1975)], Physical Graffiti was at No. 1. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart, and various sources estimate the group's record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide.

1978 - Tina Turner officially divorced from her husband Ike. She took nothing from the partnership, but revived her career with a startling comeback in the early '80s.

1979 - Supertramp released their sixth album Breakfast in America which went on to become their most successful album selling four million copies in the U.S. and reaching number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart for six weeks.

1980 - Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon spent its 303rd consecutive week on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, breaking the record set by Carole King's Tapestry for longest stay on the Billboard 200.

1982 - Iron Maiden released their third studio album, The Number of the Beast, their first album with Bruce Dickinson singing for them.

1985 - Madonna's first film, "Desperately Seeking Susan", debuted.

1999 - "The David Bowie Internet Radio Network" broadcast its first show for Rolling Stone Radio. The show played Bowie's favorite songs with Bowie introducing each track.

2001 - Brian Wilson was honored in a three-hour tribute at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Guest performances included Billy Joel, Paul Simon, The Go-Gos and the trio of Carly Simon, David Crosby and Jimmy Webb. Also singing Beach Boys songs were Ann and Nancy Wilson, Elton John and Aimee Mann.

2005 - Neil Young was treated for a brain aneurysm at a hospital in New York.

2006 - Tom Jones was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

2007 - U2 singer Bono accepted an honorary knighthood at a ceremony in Dublin. He was not entitled to be called "Sir" because he is not a British citizen. The singer's new title is Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE).

2011 - A website that illegally sold Beatles songs online for 25 cents each agreed to pay record companies almost $1 million to settle a legal case. BlueBeat.com, based in the U.S., streamed and sold music by The Beatles, Coldplay and others until it was sued in 2009. In the few days before it was forced to shut down, it had distributed more than 67,000 Beatles tracks.

2015 - 72-year-old Norman Greenbaum, who wrote and sang the 1969 hit "Spirit in the Sky", was critically injured when the car he was riding in turned left, crossing into the path of an oncoming motorcycle. The 20-year-old motorcyclist was killed and his passenger was severely injured. After a lengthy recovery, Greenbaum returned to the stage in Santa Rosa, California on November 15, 2015.

2016 - Andy Newman from Thunderclap Newman died at age 73.

Birthdays:

Chad Allan, guitarist for The Guess Who, is 76.

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, better-known as Vangelis, is 76.

Bobby Kimball of Toto is 72.

John Popper of Blues Traveler is 52.

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