1967: A new British blues band, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac makes its concert debut at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor, England, sharing the bill with Cream, Donovan, the Small Faces and Chicken Shack.

That last band is fronted by a female singer named Christine Perfect, who before long, would become Christine McVie and a member of Fleetwood Mac.

Back in 1962, this was a great day for classic rock & roll records to be released:

"Surfin' Safari" (The Beach Boys)
"Green Onions" (Booker T. and the M.G.s)
"Do You Love Me" (The Contours)
"Beechwood 4-5789" (The Marvelettes)
"Ahab the Arab" (Ray Stevens)
"You Beat Me to the Punch" (Mary Wells)

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1970: The Doors’ front man, Jim Morrison, goes on trial in Miami on indecent exposure charges that stem from a March 1^st concert the previous year. Authorities claim he exposed himself on stage. Many who were at that concert still dispute those claims, although all admit that Morison was drunk and in a foul mood.

1963: Britain’s legendary rock program Ready! Steady! Go! Debuts on ITV. Dusty Springfield co-hosts the first show, which also features the Searchers, Pat Boone (!) and the Tremeloes.

1969: One of the most iconic photos in rock history was shot on this day. Photographer Iain MacMillan takes a series of pictures of the Beatles in front of the EMI recording studio where the lads are working on what would be their final studio recording. (While Let It Be was released later, it was actually recorded earlier and shelved.)

From the series of six photographs taken in a span of just ten minutes, Paul McCartney selects a shot of the band crossing the street that also gave the album its name, Abbey Road.

1963: It was on this day that Beach Party, the first in a series we know call “the Beach Party films” opened in theaters. The movie gave brand new life to the career of two teen stars of the 1950’s – Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, forever teaming them in our memories.

The movie features music written by a young Brian Wilson and also introduces us to that immortal screen character Eric von Zipper, played by Harvey Lembeck.

Twenty-four years later, to the day, Frankie and Annette are reunited in Back to the Beach, only this time they play the parents, not the teenagers.

1964: The Hoochie Coochie Men make their TV debut on the BBC program The Beat Room. The band promptly goes nowhere, but their lead singer, a young kid named Rod Stewart, shows some promise.