The Beach Boys become the first Rock band ever to appear on the cover of People magazine. The caption that accompanied a picture of the five original members, all sporting beards, read: "Still Riding The Crest, 15 Hairy Years Later.

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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