1967: Sonny and Cher guest star on an episode of NBC’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

An auspicious day to be in the recording studio. Here are what some artists were creating in the studio on this day:

1966: The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
1966: Bob Dylan - "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)," "Temporary Like Achilles"
1967: The Beatles - "Getting Better"
1978: The Eagles - "I Can't Tell You Why"

1968: Legendary rock promoter, Bill Graham opens an East Coast version of his San Francisco concert venue, the Fillmore Ballroom. Appropriately dubbed Fillmore East and located in New York City’s East Village, the hall’s first show is headlined by Big Brother & the Holding Company, Albert King and Tim Buckley.

By the way, the photo of Bill on opening night was snapped by aspiring rock photographer Linda Eastman (soon to become Linda McCartney).

2012: Following the death of Davy Jones, the “Best of the Monkees” CD re-enters the Billboard album chart at #20.

1957: It’s the Canadian Invasion! No, seriously. It was on this day that a rock band from Canada became the first from the Great White North to score a #1 hit on the U.S. charts. The group was the Diamonds and their hit was “Little Darlin’.”

1963: Patsy Cline died when her private plane crashed in Tennessee. While not rock & roll, Patsy had many hits that crossed over to the pop charts and got airplay on Top 40 stations. These included “Crazy” (written by a young Willie Nelson), “Walkin’ After Midnight,” and “I Fall to Pieces.” Her Greatest Hits LP remains among the all-time top sellers for a female country artist.

1966: A London newspaper The Evening Standard publishes an interview with John Lennon in which he infamously says about the Beatles: “We're more popular than Jesus.”

The remark goes unnoticed until it is reprinted in the American teen magazine Datebook four months later. Massive anti-Beatle protests would break out, mainly across the Bible Belt, including bonfires of Beatles records.

Lennon later apologizes and the Beatles survive the controversy.

1957: Catholic Cardinal Stritch of Chicago bans rock & roll from all Catholic high schools, thereby guaranteeing the wild popularity of rock music among Catholic students.

1975: L.A. police pull over a Lincoln Continental for allegedly running a red light. When the window is rolled down, the cops smell marijuana. The passenger, a Linda McCartney is charged with possession. The driver, a Paul McCartney is not charged.

1969: The Doors hold an infamous concert at the Coconut Grove Auditorium in Miami, Florida. Lead singer and resident bad boy, Jim Morrison is arrested on stage after he allegedly exposes himself to the crowd. He’s is not formally arraigned with a mug shot until September of the next year.

Although obviously drunk and verbally abusive to the crowd, Morrison is posthumously cleared of the indecent exposure charge during an appeals process that dragged on past the singer’s death in 1971.