Music History

During their North American tour, Led Zeppelin played the first of two nights at the Singer Bowl Music Festival in Flushing Meadow Park.

Two weeks after the Woodstock festival, the second Isle of Wight Festival was held. More than 150,000 people attended over two days, coming to see Bob Dylan, The Band, Blodwyn Pig, Blonde On Blonde, Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band, Edgar Broughton Band, Joe Cocker, Aynsley Dunbar, Family, Fat Mattress, Julie Felix, Free, Gypsy, Richie Havens, The Moody Blues, The Nice, Tom Paxton, Pentangle, The Pretty Things, Third Ear Band and The Who, among others. Tickets cost 25 shillings. Celebrities attending the festival included Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, John and Yoko, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Jane Fonda, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.

The three-day Texas International Pop Festival began at Dallas International Motor Speedway, featuring Chicago Transit Authority, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Sam & Dave, Johnny Winter, Grand Funk Railroad, Delaney & Bonnie, Nazz, Spirit, B. B. King and Canned Heat. More than 120,000 fans attended the festival.

After a three-year hiatus, Bob Dylan made his first live appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival in England. It was his first paid performance since his motorcycle accident. He performed a one-hour concert with The Band and received a fee of £38,000.

During their North American tour, Led Zeppelin performed at the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville. Also on the bill were B. B. King, The Incredible String Band, Sam & Dave and Janis Joplin.

The Grateful Dead performed at International Raceway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The four-day 10th National Jazz, Blues and Pop Festival was held at Plumpton Racecourse in Sussex, England. Performers included Family, Groundhogs, Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, Fat Mattress, Yes, Caravan, The Strawbs, Black Sabbath, Wild Angels, Wishbone Ash and Daddy Longlegs.

Christine McVie played her first concert with Fleetwood Mac at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. She later became the band's first female member.

The Concert For Peace, an anti-war rock festival featuring Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Steppenwolf and Johnny Winter, was held at Shea Stadium in New York.

Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Poco and Johnny Winter performed at the Concert For Peace at Shea Stadium in New York. The concert was held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.

Na třídenním Goose Lake International Music Festivalu v Leoni v Michiganu vystoupili mimo jiné Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Mountain, Chicago, Bob Seger, John Sebastian, James Gang, The Stooges s Iggym Popem, Brownsville Station, MC5, Rod Stewart a Flying Burrito Brothers. Festival navštívilo více než 200 000 diváků.

Na festivalu Strawberry Fields v Mosport Parku v Bowmanville v Ontariu vystoupili mimo jiné Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Cactus, Grand Funk, Alice Cooper a The Youngbloods.

Black Sabbath, Cat Stevens, Peter Green, Climax Blues Band, Fotheringay and Strawbs performed at the tenth National Jazz and Blues Festival at Plumpton Race Track in East Sussex. The festival was expanded to four days for the first and only time.

Christine McVie performed with Fleetwood Mac for the first time at a concert in New Orleans. She became the first woman in the band's lineup and later contributed to several of its albums before becoming a permanent member.

Canadian immigration officials turned back thousands of American fans heading to the Strawberry Fields Rock Festival in Mosport, Ontario, because they lacked sufficient funds for their stay. Approximately 8,000 Americans eventually attended the festival, which featured Alice Cooper, Ten Years After, Grand Funk Railroad, Sly and the Family Stone and The J. Geils Band, among others.

The Allman Brothers Band performed at the Drive-In Theater in Collinsville, Virginia. Approximately 200 fans attended on a rainy night.

Elvis Presley opened the first night of his four-week engagement at the Showroom of the International Hotel in Las Vegas. He performed an evening show and, on most of the following nights, performed two shows, with the program continuing in a dinner-and-midnight-show format.

Janis Joplin played her final concert at Harvard Stadium before an audience of approximately 40,000.

Elvis Presley performed an evening show and a midnight show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.

Fleetwood Mac began a five-day series of concerts at the Whisky A Go-Go in Hollywood.

Elvis Presley performed two concerts at the International Hotel in Las Vegas—an evening show at 8:30 p.m. and a midnight show. The source also provides their setlists.

The first day of the three-day British Yorkshire Folk, Blues & Jazz Festival took place in Krumlin, Yorkshire. Pink Floyd did not perform because fog left them stranded at a Paris airport. Weekend tickets cost £3.

He performed a Dinner Show at 8:30 p.m. and a Midnight Show at midnight at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. Both performances were attended by 2,200 people. The Midnight Show included, among others, “That’s All Right”, “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”, “Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line”, “Johnny B. Goode”, “The Wonder Of You”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Suspicious Minds”.

Elvis Presley performed both an evening and a midnight concert at the International Hotel in Las Vegas as part of his That's the Way It Is engagement.

Elvis Presley performed at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in the evening Dinner Show, followed by the Midnight Show, as part of his Vegas Season 3 engagement. Both performances were attended by approximately 2,200 people.

Led Zeppelin performed at Hampton Roads Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. The concert had originally been scheduled for August 10.

Elvis Presley performed at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in an evening Dinner Show followed by a Midnight Show as part of his Las Vegas Season 3 engagement.

The Grateful Dead performed at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California.

Yes performed at the Marquee Club in London.

Elvis Presley performed at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in both the evening and midnight shows as part of Las Vegas Season 3. The evening show included “That’s All Right”, “I Got a Woman”, “Tiger Man”, “Love Me Tender”, “I’ve Lost You”, “I Just Can’t Help Believing”, “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”, “Polk Salad Annie”, “Johnny B. Goode”, “The Wonder of You”, “Heartbreak Hotel”, “One Night”, “All Shook Up”, “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Hound Dog”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, “Suspicious Minds” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. The midnight show had a similar program but also included “Sweet Caroline”.

The Allman Brothers Band performed at American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Deep Purple performed at the Terrace Ballroom in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Elvis Presley performed at 8:30 p.m. and at midnight at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. Both concerts were attended by 2,200 people. Elvis's grandmother Minnie Mae Presley and aunt Delta Biggs attended the evening show. During the evening show, Elvis introduced his grandmother Minnie Presley and Neil Diamond. The evening setlist included “That's All Right”, “I Got A Woman/Ave Maria”, “Tiger Man”, “Love Me Tender”, “I Just Can't Help Believin'”, “Sweet Caroline”, “You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling”, “Polk Salad Annie”, “Johnny B. Goode”, “Holy Holy”, “The Wonder Of You”, “Heartbreak Hotel”, “One Night”, “All Shook Up”, “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Hound Dog”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, “Suspicious Minds” and “Can't Help Falling In Love”. The midnight setlist included “That's All Right”, “I Got A Woman/Ave Maria”, “Tiger Man”, “Love Me Tender”, “I've Lost You”, “Cryin' Time”, “I Just Can't Help Believin'”, “You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling”, “Polk Salad Annie”, “Johnny Be Goode”, “The Wonder Of You”, “Heartbreak Hotel”, “One Night”, “All Shook Up”, “Blue Suede Shoes/Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On/Blue Suede Shoes”, “Hound Dog”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, “Suspicious Minds” and “Can't Help Falling In Love”. After the midnight show, Elvis introduced actor Henry Silva, comedian Jack E. Leonard and comedian Rusty Warren, who was not present.

Led Zeppelin performed at the Assembly Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Derek and the Dominos performed at the Van Dike club in Plymouth, England.

On August 22, 1970, Elvis Presley performed two shows at the International Hotel in Las Vegas during his third Las Vegas season, which ran from August 10 to September 8, 1970. The evening show began at 8:30 p.m. and the midnight show at midnight; both had a capacity of 2,200 spectators. The setlist was not provided. The song “Runaway” was recorded during the evening show and later released on the album “Elvis On Stage”, while according to the source no recording was made of the midnight show.

Elvis Presley performed an evening and midnight show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. The evening show began at 8:15 p.m. and the midnight show at midnight; both had a capacity of 2,200. The source provides setlists for both performances and mentions the recording “Ferocious In Vegas”.

Emerson, Lake And Palmer made their debut at Plymouth Guild Hall in Plymouth, England. It was their first performance ever and also their only warm-up show before the Isle of Wight Festival six days later, where approximately 600,000 people saw them. They were paid approximately £400 for their first concert. During their career, the trio sold more than forty million records and placed ten albums on the Billboard chart and the same number in the UK.

Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground performed together for the final time at the Max's Kansas City club in New York. The performance and other concerts at the club were recorded by Brigid Polk, an associate of Andy Warhol, on a monophonic cassette recorder. The recordings were later released on the album “Live at Max's Kansas City”. Reed subsequently worked for his father for two years for $40 a week before signing a solo contract.

Elvis Presley performed at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in the evening show at 8:30 p.m. and again at midnight, in both cases before approximately 2,200 people. The evening program included performances by Darlene Love, The Osmonds and Ed Ames, while the midnight show included „That's All Right“, „Tiger Man“, „Polk Salad Annie“ and „Suspicious Minds“.

The Who performed at Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, England, and John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful joined them on stage, as he was Townshend's guest at the time.

Then little-known 23-year-old Elton John performed his first live concert in the United States at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. He appeared alongside singer and songwriter David Ackles and began his 17-concert US tour; according to one source, Neil Diamond introduced him to the audience. Among those in attendance were Don Henley, Quincy Jones and Leon Russell. Elton John performed songs including “Border Song”, “Your Song”, “Take Me to the Pilot” and a cover of The Rolling Stones' “Honky Tonk Women”. The concert received enthusiastic reviews and significantly boosted his career in America.

Elvis Presley performed an evening concert at 8:30 p.m. and a midnight concert at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. Both had a capacity of approximately 2,200 spectators; the source does not provide the setlist.