A lot of rock legends celebrate birthdays today:

1938: Bobby Hebb

1940: Dobie Gray

1941: Brenton Wood

1941: Darlene Love

1943: Mick Jagger

1949: Roger Taylor (Queen)

1950: Duncan McKay (10cc)

1965: The day folk music officially lost to rock & roll.

It was on this day that Bob Dylan walked on stage at the Newport Folk Festival with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Dylan performed his first-ever set of electric rock songs, angering the vast majority of the crowd.

After three songs, Dylan stormed off stage. He was coaxed back by Peter, Paul and Mary to perform two more songs in his more traditional, acoustic manner.

But the “damage” had been done. Many young folkies, including John Sebastian, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, John Phillips, and more would soon leave folk and start recording rock.

1978: One of Hollywood’s most legendary bombs opens on this day. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, loosely based on the most famous Beatles album of all time, is Robert Stigwood’s attempt to follow-up the smash success of his previous musical film, Grease.

The movie is so bad, it damages the reputations of nearly everyone involved, including the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. Only Aerosmith, with their version of “Come Together,” emerges unscathed.

1987: 9 years later to the day, La Bamba opens and goes on to considerable success. The movie is a fictionalized account of the life and career of Richie Valens, America’s first Hispanic rock star.

Valens is played by Lou Diamond Phillips with Marshall Crenshaw appearing as Buddy Holly and Brian Setzer as Eddie Cochran.

The film’s popularity also makes the song “La Bamba” a huge hit all over again. The film’s version was performed by Los Lobos.

1963: A local band known as the Squires enters a recording studio in Winnipeg, Manitoba to record a little surf rock instrumental called “The Sultan.” The record, of course, goes nowhere, but it is the first time Squires’ guitarist Neil Young has ever been in a studio.

1967: The Vanilla Fudge make their very first concert appearance, playing a date in New York City.

Summer has always been time for Popsicles.

Believe it or not, this popular frozen treat really was invented by a kid. One night in 1905, 11-year old Frank Epperson of California mixed some flavoring powder in water with a fork and left it outside (fork and all) overnight by mistake. It froze, but Frank ate it anyway.

For the next 17 years, Frank made them for himself and eventually, his kids. But in 1922, Epperson sold some at a fireman’s ball in San Francisco. They were a big hit. Frank then started selling them at the Neptune Beach amusement park in Alameda, California.

Unfortunately, Frank wasn’t much of a businessman. While the treat was popular, Frank’s personal finances were shaky. In 1925, he sold the rights to the Popsicle to the Joe Lowe Company of New York. Lowe quickly took the regional treat national.

The Fudgsicle was added in 1946. The origins of the Creamsicle are a bit more confused. No one seems to know how the treat was created or when it was first marketed.

A true Baby Boomer also remembers something called a Dreamsicle that you could also find in the freezer section of your corner drug store. But do you know the difference between a Dreamsicle and a Creamsicle?

The Creamsicle features ice milk inside the Popsicle coating while a Dreamsicle featured ice cream. One other difference: you can still find Creamsicles at grocery stores and ice cream trucks, The Dreamsicle has passed away into history. Pleasant dreams, indeed.

1973: John Lennon has his application for U.S. citizenship turned down. Instead, the State Department gives him 60 days to leave the country.

1968: Decca Records cancels plans to release the new Rolling Stones album Beggar’s Banquet in America on their “London Records” subsidiary because they fear a backlash against the album’s cover art – which depicts the album’s title, credits and song titles as graffiti in a filthy men’s rest room.

A complete cover makeover is ordered, pushing the album’s eventual release back to December.

You can find the original cover on the current CD of the album.

1986: To celebrate his 39^th birthday and the 20^th anniversary of the founding of the band named after him, Carlos Santana plays a concert in San Francisco that features all past and present members of Santana who are still living – 17 in all.

1958: Following a series of arguments (over money, what else?), manager George Treadwell fires every member of the group, the Drifters. He replaces them with another group that had been calling themselves the Five Crowns.

This new set of Drifters quickly becomes the most successful line-up to perform under that name, scoring hits with “There Goes My Baby,” “This Magic Moment” and “Save the Last Dance for Me.”

The Five Crowns’ lead singer who became the Drifters’ lead singer on this day was a young man named Ben E. King.