History Highlight:

Today in 2009, the debut album by The Dead Weather, Horehound, was released, and spawned the singles "Hang You from the Heavens," "Treat Me Like Your Mother," and "I Cut Like A Buffalo." The band includes Alison Mosshart (The Kills and Discount), Jack White (The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes and City and Colour), and has released two albums since their debut album. Fun fact: The idea for the band formed after Jack White lost his voice and The Raconteurs asked Alison Mosshart whom they were touring to fill in on some songs. 

Also, Today In: 

1962 - Bobby Vinton started a four-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Roses Are Red, My Love." 

1964 - The Rolling Stones went No. 1 in the U.K. with their cover of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now." 

1967 - In another great concert mismatch of the rock ages, The Who opened for Herman's Hermits on their first U.S. tour. 

1969 - Bob Dylan with The Band make a surprise appearance at Mississippi River Rock Festival. 

1973 - Clarence White of The Byrds was loading equipment after a gig in Palmdale, Calif., when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver. 

1973 - During a concert at the John Wayne Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., Phil Everly smashed his guitar and stormed off stage. Don Everly finished the set by himself and announced that The Everly Brothers had split. 

1977 - Elvis Costello and The Attractions made their live debut supporting Wayne County & the Electric Chairs at the Penzance Winter Gardens in Cornwall, England. 

1979 - Donna Summer scored her third No. 1 U.S. single with "Bad Girls"; the album of the same name also started a five-week run at No. 1. 

1982 - The film premiere of Pink Floyd's The Wall was held at the Empire in London's Leicester Square. 

1988 - Michael Jackson gave himself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for setting a new attendance record, when he played the first of seven nights at Wembley Stadium in London. The shows on his Bad World Tour were attended by a total of 504,000 fans beating the record previously held by Genesis, with four sold out nights. 

1989 - "Judge Judy" Sheindlin, not yet a TV star and still a Family Court judge in New York, ordered Tom Jones to pay $200 weekly child support to model Katherine Berkery. 

2005 - Joe Harnell, a pianist and composer who worked as an accompanist and arranger for Peggy Lee and others, died of heart failure at age 80. 

2007 - A pair of glasses worn by former Beatle John Lennon sparked a bidding war after being offered for sale online. The circular sunglasses were worn by Lennon during The Beatles 1966 tour of Japan, where the band played some of their last ever live dates. Anonymous rival bidders had pushed the price as high as $850,000 at an online auction house. 

2010 - Ann Kirsten Kennis, whose Polaroid photo is on the cover of Vampire Weekend's #1 album Contra, files a $2 million lawsuit against the band, their label, and the photographer, claiming she never granted permission to use it. She later settles with the band. 

2013 - 2013 In Switzerland, 73-year-old Tina Turner marries her longtime boyfriend, the record producer Erwin Bach. A few years later, he gives her one of his kidneys when she needs a transplant. 

2014 - Johnny Winter plays the Cahors Blues Festival in France. It's his last performance, as he dies two days later. 

2015 - The Las Vegas coroner's office confirmed that B.B. King died of natural causes primarily stemming from Alzheimer's disease and was not murdered. Two of his daughters had alleged King was poisoned by long-time associates. 

2018 - Drake breaks his own record for most entries on the Hot 100 at once when he places 27 songs on the tally following the release of his album Scorpion. 

Birthdays: 

Woodrow "Woody" Guthrie, was born in Okemah, Okla., today in 1912. He passed away in 1967. 

Harry Dean Stanton was born today in 1926.

Del Reeves was born today in 1932.

Jim Gordon, drummer for Derek and the Dominos and a convicted murderer, was born today in 1945. 

Tommy Mottola — well known among music industry professionals for signing Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Destiny's Child, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Shakira, and the Dixie Chicks, as well as for releasing digitally remastered compact discs of older recordings made by Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Andy Williams, Pink Floyd among others — is 76.

Andy Newmark, drummer for Sly and the Family Stone and others, is 74. 

Bob Casale — rhythm guitarist and keyboardist for Devo — was born today in 1952.

Kyle Gass of Tenacious D is 64.

Angélique Kidjo is 64.

Tanya Donelly, singer for The Breeders, Throwing Muses, and Belly, is 58. 

Ellen Reid of Crash Test Dummies is 58. 

Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, R&B singer, is 49.

Taboo of The Black Eyed Peas is 49. 

Dan Smith, front guy of Bastille, is 38. 

Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons is 37. 

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Song Facts and Wikipedia.