Read Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock & Roll. And out of 50 moments (only 21 of which were given actual dates instead of months or seasons), 3 happened on my birthday, August 17: the last day of Woodstock, Bruce Springsteen playing the Bottom Line in 1975 (the dates were not stated in the issue but 8/17 was the date of the final gig) and the filming of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video. Statistically, there is only a 1 in 7.305 chance of any of them happening on my birthday. Add those to the list of celebs born on that day (Sean Penn, Robert DeNiro, Davy Crockett, Jim Courier, Belinda Carlisle, Mae West) and that Lou Gehrig played in his record 1,308th consecutive game this day in 1933 and that the Beatles replaced Pete Best with Ringo on this day in 1962, and I think we can all admit that August 17 is the best day EVER!

I feel there were some pretty big omissions in the issue:
- Beatles playing on Ed Sullivan
- Blondie recording "Rapture" (rap wouldn't have been as big without it)
- The Day the Music Died (killed Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper and inspired "American Pie")
- The creation of CDs
- Elvis' comeback special (the creative spark of MTV's Unplugged or any acoustic jams)
- Pink Floyd recording "Dark Side of the Moon"
- Alanis Morissette recording "You Oughta Know" (more important than the Lilith Fair)
- Wham! performing in China in April 1985 (becoming the first English-speaking pop group to do so)
Then again, that's just me...