Rock & Roll legend Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas.

Chrissie Hynde, guitarist and vocalist for the Pretenders, is born.

Roy Orbison's movie The Fastest Guitar Alive begins filming.

The new Yardbirds: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones will play in Scandinavia to fulfill a Yardbirds' previously existing commitments before announcing their new name: Led Zeppelin.

The Doors' "Waiting For The Sun" LP hits #1.

Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" LP enters the charts as does Canned Heat's "Boogie With Canned Heat."

Elton John being introduced at the Hollywood Bowl by the show's emcee, porn star Linda Lovelace, "Here he is, the biggest, largest, most gigantic and fantastic man, the costar of my next movie....Elton John."

The president of the slumping MGM Records since 1969, Mike Curb, resigns. The 28 year old made his reputation as a purveyor of middle-of-the-road music. He once got rid of eighteen acts from his label because the were allegedly "drug oriented." Curb had other things on his mind like politics and became Lieutenant governor of California.

New York State Supreme Court Judge Richard Owen rules that George Harrison "Subconsciously Plagiarized" He's So Fine by the Chiffons in his 1970s song My Sweet Lord. Harrison is ordered to pay over $500,000 in damages.

In the same London flat that Mama Cass died in, Keith Moon dies after overdosing on prescription drugs. His untimely death does not mean the end of the Who. He is replaced by ex-Faces drummer Kenney Jones. Keith Moon was 31.

At the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Michael Nesmith joins the other three Monkees' members on stage during their reunion tour for the first time.

Despite threats from former member Roger Waters to sue promoters if the show goes on, Pink Floyd kicks off their "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" tour in Ottawa, Canada.

B.B. King gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Stones play the MTV Awards and are presented with a Lifetime Achievement award.

Copyright © 2008 by Tim Spencer/Bugfish Productions
As the information on these pages deals with an historical subject, specific items of information are necessarily derived from many other sources. Anyone who feels that any item in these pages may have inadvertently breached their own copyright should advise the author at this e-mail address: spencer@rock103.com.