1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first of three nights at the Cafe-a-Go-Go in New York City. The club featured many well known acts including: Grateful Dead, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, and Cream who all appeared at the club.
1969 – The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song “Come Together” at Abbey Road studios in London. The track became the opening song on The Beatles Abbey Road album and was later released as a double A-sided single with ’Something’, their twenty first single in the UK and twenty-sixth in the US where it reached the top of the charts.
1977 – Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops where they lip-synched to their third single, “Pretty Vacant”. The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7.
1987 – Guns N’ Roses released their debut album on Geffen Records: Appetite For Destruction featured the singles “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Sweet Child o’ Mine”, and “Paradise City”. The album now has worldwide sales in excess of 28 million, 18 million of which are in the US, making it the best-selling debut album of all time there.
1994 – Oasis played their first ever American show as part of the New Music Seminar at Wetlands in New York City.
