December 18
1943: Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is born
December 23
1955: Bruce Hornsby is born
1966: Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam is born
December 24
1945: Lemmy of Motorhead is born
December 26
1940: Legendary music producer and “Wall of Sound” creator Phil Spector is born
1968: Led Zeppelin begins its first U.S. tour
December 27
1932: Radio City Music Hall opens to the public in New York City’s Rockefeller Center
December 30
1999: George Harrison is stabbed several times, but survives, after he and his wife, Olivia, are attacked by an intruder in their home outside London
December 31
1943: John Denver is born John Henry Deutschendorf

