JUNE 20
THE THREE-DAY NEWPORT ’69 FESTIVAL STARTS IN NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA. AN ESTIMATED 200,000 PEOPLE ATTEND TO HEAR JIMI HENDRIX, JOE COCKER, CCR, JETHRO TULL, THE BYRDS, STEPPENWOLF AND OTHERS. HENDRIX RECEIVES $125,000 FOR HIS APPEARANCE WHICH AT THE TIME WAS THE HIGHEST FEE EVER PAID TO A ROCK ACT FOR A SINGLE PERFORMANCE.
IN 1978 FOREIGNER RELEASE THEIR SECOND STUDIO ALBUM, ‘DOUBLE VISION’ WHICH CLIMBED TO #3 ON THE ALBUM CHART AND FEATURED THE HIT SINGLES “HOT BLOODED”, “DOUBLE VISION” AND “BLUE MORNING, BLUE DAY”.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FORMER VAN HALEN BASSIST AND BACKGROUND VOCALIST MICHAEL ANTHONY, WHO CELEBRATES HIS 71ST.