History Highlight:

Today in 2007, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin reunited for their first full-length concert in nearly thirty years. Original band members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham. The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert was a benefit concert held in memory of music executive Ahmet Ertegun at the O2 Arena in London, and more than one million people had taken part in a ballot for the 20,000 tickets available for the show with all proceeds going to Ahmet's charity. Zeppelin performed 16 songs including two encores.

Also, in:

1967 - Otis Redding and several members of his band died when their plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wisconsin. His biggest hit, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," had been recorded just three days earlier. Redding was 26.

1983 - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson started a six week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Say Say Say", as Jade says, a horrible song.

1998 - Bruce Springsteen was victorious in a $4 million court battle to prevent the release of an album of his early recordings.

2008 - The Associated Press reported that the U.S. military used loud music to "create fear, disorient and prolong capture shock" for prisoners at military detention centers at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Among the songs blasted 24 hours a day were "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen, "Hell's Bells" by AC/DC, "White America" by Eminem, "The Theme From Sesame Street" and "I Love You" from the Barney and Friends children's TV show.

2010 - The original hand-written lyrics to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin" sold at a New York auction for $422,500. The song, one of Dylan's most politically charged, was the title track of his 1964 album.

Birthdays:

Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (best known for "The Things That I Used to Do") was born today in 1926.

Meg White, drummer for White Stripes, is 40 today.

J Mascis is 49 today.

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