Robbie Robertson, guitarist for The Band, is born.

Huey Lewis is born.

The first professional recording session featuring Elvis Presley is held in Sam Phillips' Sun Records Studio in Memphis. Tracks include That's Alright Mama.

The Fillmore West officially opens.

The Rolling Stones hold a free concert in Hyde Park in London. They introduce Mick Taylor, but turn the concert into a tribute to Brian Jones.

The Atlanta Pop Festival features Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Chuck Berry, Johnny Winter, Spirit, Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grand Funk Railroad, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, and Led Zeppelin.

Police pull over a rented Chevy in Fordyce, Arkansas after the car swerved on the roadway. Inside are Keith Richards and Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones and two friends. The driver is charged with reckless driving and carrying a concealed weapon. Richards posts bail and leaves town in a chartered plane. The weapon was a penknife and a tool for removing stones from horse's hooves. All charges are later dismissed.

Bad Company's "Feel Like Making Love" is released.

The EMI record pressing plant in Britain stops printing The Rolling Stones album cover for "Some Girls." It seems some celebrities, including Lucille Ball, depicted in the cover's mock wig advertisements, complained.

The U.S. Justice Department opts not to take antitrust action against Ticketmaster, ending a 13 month long fight with Pearl Jam. The band had used a rival ticket service in retaliation of Ticketmaster's tactics, and ironically, it was the use of that service that proved that Ticketmaster didn't have a monopoly.

In one of the worst concert tragedies in rock history (with a death toll just short of the Who's 1979 concert at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum), eight Pearl Jam fans, ages seventeen to twenty-six, suffocated in a mosh pit at Denmark's Roskilde Festival.

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