Mike Mills of R.E.M. is born (1958).

Paul Rogers of Free is born (1949).

Robert Plant performs with his former group, the Band of Joy in Folkstone, England. Her performs Led Zeppelin songs as a solo artist for the first time (1987).

The Doobie Brothers perform a reunion concert in Palo Alto, California for a charity benefit (1986).

17-The Who perform their Christmas part at the Marquee Club in London. The group Yes also performs at the show tonight, as well as Joe Cocker, Free and Led Zeppelin (1968)

17-The Beatles perform at the Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool after returning from Hamburg. Chas Newby joins the band on bass guitar, and later replaces Stuart Sutcliffe, but is only with the band for two weeks and four performances and is later replaced by Paul McCartney (1960)

17-George Harrison performs an impromptu live set for the regular bar patrons at his local pub in Henley-on-Thames near his home in the UK (1977)

17-U2 has the top-grossing tour for this year according to US magazine Billboard, with more than three million people attending the band’s sell-out the band’s 90-date “Vertigo” tour and grossing $260 million (2005)

17-David Bowie releases his fourth album, Hunky Dory, which is the first to include all the member of the band that would become known the next year as Ziggy Stardust’s Spiders From Mars (1971)