The Rolling Stones 14th UK and 16th US album, "Some Girls" topped the Billboard 200 chart. It was the band's first LP to feature guitarist Ronnie Wood as a full-time member. The disc would feature the singles, "Miss You" (US #1, UK #3), "Beast Of Burden" (US #8), "Shattered" (US #31) and "Respectable" (UK #23). It would be nominated for the Album Of The Year Grammy, but lost to "The Concert for Bangladesh". "Some Girls" would be certified by the RIAA for selling six million copies by 2000.

The film Easy Rider, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, premiers in New York City. The soundtrack to the movie, which features performances by The Band, The Byrds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf, peaked at #6 on the Billboard album chart the following September and was certified Gold in January 1970

Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" is released in the US, where it will reach #2. A line from the song which includes the words "heavy metal thunder" is often credited with popularizing a new term for loud, guitar dominated music.

Chicago disc jockey Steve Dahl held the infamous Disco Demolition between games of a baseball doubleheader at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Dahl burned Disco records brought by fans who received discount admission. Some of those fans decided to start their own fires and a mini-riot ensued, forcing the White Sox to forfeit the second game

Lars Ulrich of Metallica appears before a US Senate panel to testify against websites like Napster, that allowed people to trade music for free over the Internet.

New York radio station WINS announced the hiring of pioneer Rock disc jockey Alan Freed to be the host of their Rock 'n' Roll Party. As he did on his earlier Moondog's Rock 'n' Roll House Party Show on WJW in Cleveland, Freed programmed records by Black R&B artists that many White teenagers had never heard before. Freed is often credited with popularizing the term "Rock and Roll", although the phrase was first used in 1942 by Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker to describe upbeat recordings.

Paul McCartney and Wings played their first show of their inaugural tour when they appeared in the small French town of Chateauvillon. The band included Denny Laine, Henry McCullough, Denny Seiwell, and Paul's wife, Linda. It was McCartney's first time on the road since The Beatles quit touring in 1966.

After signing with Island Records, the B-52's make their live debut at London's Lyceum Ballroom. The band would go on to reach the Billboard Hot 100 eight times and the UK Top 100 fourteen times. In 2008, they dropped the apostrophe in their name, with vocalist / keyboard player Kate Pierson explaining, "It was not grammatically correct. It's not like a possessive. It just seemed superfluous."

Paul McCartney releases "Live and Let Die", the theme from the James Bond movie of the same name. It will reach #2 in the US and #9 in the UK, making it the most successful Bond theme up to that time. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost to Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were".

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The motion picture A Hard Day's Night premieres in The Beatles' hometown of Liverpool, with hundreds of thousands of fans lining the streets for a parade from the airport to the city center. The movie was shot in black and white with a budget of only £200,000 ($500.000) and took just seven weeks to complete. Reviews were mostly positive and the film went on to earn over eleven million dollars.

Pressings of the album cover for "Some Girls" by The Rolling Stones were halted when some of the celebrities whose faces appeared on the cover, including Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe, threatened to sue. The sleeve was quickly replaced with a cover that removed all the famous folks, whether they had complained or not.

The three-day Atlanta Pop Festival opens at Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia in front of a crowd of 200,000. Jimi Hendrix played his feedback filled version of "The Star Spangled Banner". Two days later, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox says he will seek legislation to ban all Rock festivals in the state, but no laws were ever passed.

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While on sabbatical in France, The Doors' lead singer, Jim Morrison died of heart failure and acute respiratory distress. News of his death wasn't made public until after his burial in a Paris cemetery on July 9th. Interviewer Gary James would later speak to Morrison's brother-in-law Alan Graham about the circumstances surrounding the singer's death.

Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. Over the next thirty years they will sell over 385 million Walkmans in cassette, CD, mini-disc and digital file versions, but later struggled against Apple's iPod and other new devices.

A New Jersey based quintet calling themselves Bon Jovi are signed to Phonogram's Mercury label. They will record six albums for the label, all of which would go Platinum.