BORN
BRIAN WILSON of The Beach Boys
CHET ATKINS
GRACE POTTER
JOHN TAYLOR of Duran Duran
THIS HAPPENED
In 1966, Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde album came out. It peaked at #9 in the US, but with songs like “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35,” “I Want You,” and “Just Like a Woman,” it also ranked #9 on Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
In 1969, Approximately 150,000 rock fans showed up in Northridge, California, not far from the CSUN campus, to witness the Newport 69 Festival featuring The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joe Cocker, Jethro Tull, Steppenwolf, and numerous others. Hendrix’s fee was reportedly $125,000, at that time a record-breaking amount for a single appearance by a rock performer.
In 1970, Neil Young picked up a Gold record for “Cinnamon Girl,” from the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
In 1980, The first Blues Brothers movie premiered; it featured John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Elwood and Jake Blues, with cameo appearances by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, and John Lee Hooker.
In 2004, Paul McCartney played a gig in Petersburg, Russia. It was his 3,000th concert appearance, including 2,535 gigs with The Quarrymen and The Beatles, 140 gigs with Wings, and — to that point — 325 solo shows.
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