08/01/1942
Jerry Garcia was born on this day.

08/01/1946
Boz Burrell of the group Bad Company was born on this day.

08/01/1963
The first 'Beatles Monthly' was published. A magazine devoted to the group, it continued until 1969, and at it's peak was selling 350,000 copies a month.

08/01/1964
The song 'A Hard Day's Night' by The Beatles topped the charts and stayed there for two weeks.

08/01/1966
The three day Atlantic City Pop Festival took place with BB King, Janis Joplin, Santana, Joni Mitchell, Three Dog Night, Dr John, Procol Harum, Arthur Brown, Little Richard and Canned Heat.

08/01/1968
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger's movie 'Performance' was released.

08/01/1971
George Harrison's Bangladesh concert benefit at Madison Square Garden.

08/01/1980
George Harrison formed a production company called 'Hand Made Films Productions'.

08/01/1981
MTV made its debut at 12:01am. The first video to be shown was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by the Buggles.

08/01/1987
Today the song 'Shakedown' (from 'Beverly Hills Cop II') by Bob Seger topped the charts and stayed there for a week.

08/01/1994
The Rolling Stones 12th North American tour kicked off in Washington DC.

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