July 8 |
Today in 1967, The Monkees began a 29-date US tour with Jimi Hendrix as the opener. Hendrix, still mostly unknown in America, didn’t go over well with the Monkees’ teenybopper audience. After six performances, he agreed to leave the tour.
Rock shows were temporarily banned at London’s Royal Albert Hall on this day in 1971, after a riot broke out at a Mott The Hoople concert.
And on this day in 1973, Led Zeppelin’s fifth album, Houses of the Holy, was #1 in both the US and England.
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