AUGUST 12
FLEETWOOD MAC MADE THEIR CONCERT DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1967. THEY WERE KNOWN AT THE TIME AS PETER GREEN’S FLEETWOOD MAC AND THE SCENE OF THEIR FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE WAS BRITAIN’S NATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL. ALSO, ON THE BILL WERE CREAM, THE SMALL FACES, TEN YEARS AFTER, DONOVAN, AND PINK FLOYD.
IN OTHER CONCERT NEWS, IN 1966 THE BEATLES BEGAN THEIR LAST EVER TOUR AT CHICAGO’S INTERNATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE . . .
AND JANIS JOPLIN PLAYED HER FINAL CONCERT EVER AT HARVARD STADIUM IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ON THIS DAY IN 1970.