Today in 1967, Jimi Hendrix released “Purple Haze”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFSaqFzSO8

Three years later, Hendrix made his last concert appearance in Great Britain at the Isle of Wight Festival, which also featured, for your £3 ticket …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnS9M03F-fA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuxJH2Mj30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BM3j9pKXJ8&ob=av2n

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZwnDVh5ejw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F945LQG6fuA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Xvrysy4qI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQs8LeOQGRk

The number one song in the U.S. today in 1978 was a song in a style unlike the movie from whence it came:

Birthdays start with Maurice Williams, who asks you to …

Richard Cowsill of the Cowsills:

Dan Vickrey played guitar for the Counting Crows:

Adrian Young plays drums, No Doubt:

Finally, a musical death of note (get it?): Those who played in high school bands (which are starting up right about now) probably played at least one of the works of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who died at 85 today in 1958: