Happy Birthday: Neil Giraldo-guitarist for Pat Benatar and husband born in 1955
1966 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience make their TV debut with a performance on the UK TV show “Top Of The Pops”.
1967 – Dave Mason announces that he is leaving Traffic, just as the group is about to release their debut album. He returns to the band the following year.
1975 – Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane break up after living together for seven years. Slick marries the band’s lighting engineer the next year. Despite the break up, they still work together in Jefferson Starship.
1982 – Unexpectedly (and some say inexplicably) delving into electronic music, Neil Young releases his 12th studio album, “Trans”. This album, along with the one that follows it (“Everybody’s Rockin'”), causes Geffen Records to sue Young for intentionally creating music that won’t sell. Five of the nine songs were recorded with a vocoder. Synthesizers & electronic beats were also present & it went on to peak at number seventeen on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.