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Today In Music History: The Summer of Love Begins

Posted at 7:30 AM on June 16, 2009 by Steve Seel

Birthdays:

Lamont Dozier of the songwriter team of Holland/Dozier/Holland is 68. He wrote many hits for Motown records, including The Supremes, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas plus Freda Payne and Chairmen Of The Board.

1971 - Tupac Amaru Shakur (Lesane Parish Crooks) was born. He died from bullet wounds on September 13th 1996.
1976 - The Jackson Five four-week summer variety show premiered on CBS- TV featuring The Jacksons plus sisters Latoya, Rebbie and Janet.
1980 - The Blues Brothers film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago. The film also featured Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles in the role of a streetwise store owner.
1982 - Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died following sustained cocaine and heroin addiction.
2000 - On the first night of his 'Up in Smoke' tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Dogg's tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested.

On this day in 1967, The three day Monterey Pop Festival in California began. All the proceeds went to charity when all the artists agreed to perform for free, the "Summer of Love" was born. The festival saw the first major US appearances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Also on the bill: The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, The Mamas And The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, and Buffalo Springfield. Tickets cost $3.50-6.50. We played Hendrix (humorously promising to "bore the crowd for six minutes"), covering Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone." It's hardly boring.

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