Birthdays: Rock bassist Michael Anthony (of Van Halen, Chickenfoot) is born in 1954
1969: The Jimi Hendrix Experience received the largest fee ever at the time for their headlining appearance as they were paid $125,000 to perform at the Newport Pop Festival held outside of Los Angeles.
1969: David Bowie records “Space Oddity,” a song he wrote after seeing the Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
1978: Foreigner releases the classic Double Vision album was features the title track and Hot Blooded.
2008: Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page was honored with an honorary doctorate in music at the University of Surrey in the U.K.