August 10
1979: Michael Jackson releases Off the Wall.
August 11
1964: The Beatles begin recording their fourth studio album, Beatles for Sale, at Abbey Road Studios.
1979: Led Zeppelin play their final live UK show with the original lineup featuring John Bonham at the Knebworth Festival.
August 12
1949: Mark Knopfler is born in Glasgow, Scotland.
1970: Janis Joplin performs her final live concert at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just under two months before her death.
1991: Metallica release their self-titled fifth album, famously known as "The Black Album".It becomes one of the best-selling rock records of all time.
2009: Guitar pioneer and inventor.
August 13
1965: The Beatles release the U.S. version of the Help! soundtrack album
1975: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band begin their legendary five-night, 10-show residency at The Bottom Line in New York City
August 14
1971: The Who released Who's Next in the UK (followed by the US a few days later).
August 15
1965: The Beatles play their historic concert at Shea Stadium in New York City in front of over 55,000 screaming fans - the birth of the modern stadium rock concert.
1969: The legendary Woodstock Music & Art Fair kicks off on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York.
August 16
1962: Ringo Starr is officially asked to join The Beatles as their permanent drummer, replacing Pete Best just before their first EMI recording sessions.
1977: The "King of Rock and Roll," Elvis Presley, dies on the toilet at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 42.
