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All six members of The Grateful Dead are busted by California narcotics agents for possession of marijuana at the group’s 710 Ashbury Street House in San Francisco. After six hours, they are all released on bail.

Bob Dylan appears at Carnegie Hall in New York and introduces his new touring band made up of guitarist Robbie Robertson, organist Garth Hudson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manual and drummer Levon Helm. They will become known simply as The Band.

Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s sixth studio album, “Nebraska”. It started out as a collection of songs that The Boss recorded as demos on a 4-track tape recorder. Instead of re-recording them with The E Street Band, he decided to release them as they were. The album would climb to #3 on Billboard’s Top LPs...

The Rolling Stones began their first tour of the United Kingdom, where they played 32 dates, opening for acts like The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley and Little Richard.

Jim Morrison is arrested while attending a Florida State University football game. Police were called after Morrison made a drunken nuisance of himself, but before he could be arrested he stole someone’s umbrella and a police officer’s helmet from a squad car. He was charged with “disturbing the peace by being drunk,”...

Cliff Burton, bass guitarist for Metallica, was killed when the band’s tour bus skidded and flipped over in rural southern Sweden. The 24-year-old Burton was thrown through a window of the bus, which fell on top of him, crushing him to death. He would be posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the group...

The Beatles release their 13th album in the UK, “Abbey Road”, which debuts at #1 and will stay there for eleven straight weeks. It is issued in the US a week later and will top the Billboard album chart for twelve weeks. It has since gone on to sell over 31 million copies world wide. The album cover, showing the band...

Led Zeppelin was rehearsing at Jimmy Page’s house in preparation for an American tour when drummer John Bonham was found dead in his bed following an all-day drinking binge. The 32 year old Bonham had passed out and choked on his own vomit. In December, Led Zeppelin would announce that they were disbanding, saying they could...