81. buddy holly, RIP

80. David Lee Roth and Van Halen part ways only to have a kick ass band morph into a enormous cheese mountain when Sammy "Mr. Embarrassment" Hagar is recruited.

OUCH!

79. Bon Scott dies (RIP), band unfortunately soldiers on.

78. The band Rush is formed.

77. We are the World.
76. Billy Joel tickles his first set of ivories.

LOL. i was just gonna throw BJ out there, too.

75. After surviving a nasty motorcycle wreck, rather than being super-badass guy, billy joel somehow ends up in the position of flipping over a table in the video for We Didn't Start The Fire.

74. Sometime during "Revolution Summer," the first tear is shed at a Rites Of Spring gig.

73. Dee Dee King

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MIW040503221532&sql=11:ojdjvwnva9yk~T0

we're all waiting on the eagles, right?

75. _Steppenwolf Live_

74. December 1972. In a state-of-the-art recording studio, Jim Dandy sits down on a three-legged, wooden stool and clears his throat. A Neumann U47 is positioned directly in front of his face. Dandy proceeds to perform the 'keeper' vocal take on the song "High and Dry," for Black Oak Arkansas' 4th studio album, _High on the Hog_.

70. Elton John watches footage of the Princess Diana wreck on Sky News. A royal tear rolls down his flushed cheeks. He pulls out an old copy of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road...