Columbia Records releases Santana's self-titled, debut album. It will rise to #4 on the Billboard 200 chart and #34 in the UK, and featured the single "Evil Ways". That song would peak at #9 in America and feature keyboard player Gregg Rolie on lead vocals.

The Ramones' lead guitarist Johnny Ramone, (real name: John Cummings) undergoes emergency surgery to remove blood clots from his brain following a fight with Seth Micklaw of the Punk band Sub Zero Construction. Ramone picked a fight after seeing his girlfriend, Cynthia Whitney with Micklaw. The brief scrap ended with Ramone receiving kicks to the head with steel capped boots.

The Rolling Stones release "Angie", which will top the Billboard chart and reach #5 in the UK. At the time, the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards composition was rumored to have been written about David Bowie's first wife Angela, the actress Angie Dickinson, Keith Richards' newborn daughter Dandelion Angela, and Marianne Faithfull. However, in his 2010 memoir Life, Richards said that he had chosen the name at random when writing the song, before he knew that his baby would be named Angela or even knew that his baby would be a girl.

The City of Liverpool named four streets after The Beatles, John Lennon Drive, Paul McCartney Way, George Harrison Close and Ringo Starr Drive.

Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and Stephen Stills all appeared on The Dick Cavett Show. The episode is now often referred to as "The Woodstock Show", as many of the performers, and Cavett's audience, came directly from the concert.

42-year-old Elvis Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. Presley's girlfriend, Ginger Alden awoke in the afternoon and noticed that he was not in bed and found him lying on the floor of the bathroom. He was rushed to Baptist Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. After an examination it was revealed that Presley's body contained butabarbital, codeine, morphine, pentobarbital, Placidyl, Quaalude, Valium and Valmid. It had been five years since Presley had a US Top Ten hit with the #2 song, "Burning Love". His last US #1 was 1969's "Suspicious Minds". He left an estate valued at 4.9 million dollars, which by 1993 had grown to over 50 million. In his last conversation with Ginger Alden, he told her "I'm going to the bathroom to read." When she cautioned him not to fall asleep in there, his final words were, "Okay, I won't."

Deep Purple's version of "Hush" is released in the US where it will climb to #4 by mid-September. Recorded in just two takes, the song would be the band's first of eight Billboard Hot 100 hits

Led Zeppelin release their eighth and final studio album, "In Through the Out Door" on their own label, Swan Song Records. The effort would prove to be a huge success, topping both the UK Official Albums Chart and the Billboard 200. It would be certified 6X Platinum in the United States. The highest charting single from the LP, "Fool in the Rain", would reach #21 on Billboard's Hot 100.

Michael Jackson outbids Paul McCartney for the entire ATV music publishing catalogue, which includes most of the Lennon/McCartney songbook. Jackson paid 47.5 million US dollars for the company, in an act that will permanently sour the friendship between the two stars.

The Kinks reach the UK charts for the first time with "You Really Got Me". The song will top the British list a month later and climb to #7 in the US

Alice Cooper tops the UK chart with "School's Out" for the first of two weeks. The song rose to #7 in the US. Some America radio stations actually banned the song from their play lists, believing that it caused rebelliousness against childhood education. Despite the controversy, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.

"Hey Jude" / "Revolution" becomes the first Beatles' single to be released on their own Apple Records. Its nine-week stay at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 tied the all-time record for the longest run at the top of the US charts, a distinction it held for nine years. The song also topped the charts in sixteen other countries around the world, including the UK.

Jim Morrison's trial for allegedly exposing himself onstage in Miami begins. He would be found guilty and Judge Goodman would sentence Jim to six months of hard labor and a $500 fine for public exposure and sixty days of hard labor for profanity. His lawyer filed an immediate appeal and Jim was freed on $50,000 bond. Morrison would die in Paris, France on July 3rd, 1971 before his legal problems could be resolved. In December, 2010, the Florida Clemency Board would grant him a full pardon. Members of The Doors' staff insisted that Morrison never exposed himself in the first place.

53-year-old Jerry Garcia, leader of The Grateful Dead, died at a California rehabilitation center. The official cause of death was a heart attack brought on by hardening of the arteries. Half of his ashes were later spread into the Ganges river at the holy city of Rishikesh, India. The the rest of the cremains were scattered into the San Francisco Bay

"House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals is released in America. Although the band would put fourteen songs in the Top 40, this will be their only US number one. It has long been reported that the track that we all know was recorded in just one take. It was later ranked #122 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and in 1999 it received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.

Frank Zappa's debut solo album "Lumpy Gravy" is released by Capitol Records. He conducted a group of session musicians, but did not actually perform on any of the tracks. The LP would be quickly withdrawn from circulation due to a lawsuit from MGM Records, who claimed that the album violated Zappa's contract with their subsidiary, Verve Records. After it was significantly edited, it was re-released on May 13th, 1968, and rose to #159 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Stevie Nicks released her first solo album, "Bella Donna", which contained the singles, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Tom Petty (US #3) and "Leather and Lace" with Don Henley (US #6).

Pink Floyd released their debut album, "The Piper At the Gates of Dawn", which would reach #6 in the UK. The LP did not contain the two singles released earlier in the year, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play". It only managed to climb to #131 on The Billboard Hot 200 and took nearly twenty-seven years to be certified Gold when it received the honor in March, 1994.

Prince started a twenty-four week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 200 chart with his sixth album, "Purple Rain". The RIAA lists it as having gone 13X Platinum.

Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new band, Wings with his wife Linda on keyboards, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine.

Robert Allen Zimmerman emerged from the Supreme Court building at 111 Centre St. in downtown Manhattan with a new, legal name; Robert Dylan.

Chubby Checker's "The Twist" is released in the US, where it will become the number one song by mid-September. Record industry history was made when Checker's original hit recording re-entered the charts in the Fall of 1961 and by January of 1962, was back in the number one position. It was the first record ever to hit number one on two separate occasions.

The Eagles split up after Glenn Frey and Don Felder nearly broke into fisticuffs onstage in Long Beach, California. Angry at the way Felder spoke to Senator Alan Cranston earlier in the day, tensions were high onstage between the two. Frey later recalled. "We're out there singing 'Best of My Love', but inside both of us are thinking, 'As soon as this is over, I'm gonna kill him.' That was when I knew I had to get out." After the show ended, Felder smashed what Frey later described as "a cheap guitar" against the wall backstage and sped away in a limo. The group went their separate ways, with Frey enjoying a highly successful solo career in which he placed seven songs on the Billboard Top 40 between 1982 and 1988. Don Henley would do the same, putting ten singles on the chart between 1981 and 1992. As for Felder, he issued a low selling album, "Airborne" in 1983.