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The Eagles enjoy their first US #1 album when "One Of These Nights" tops the Billboard 200 chart for the first of five weeks. It would yield three US Top 10 singles: "One of These Nights" (#1), "Lyin' Eyes" (#2) and "Take It to the Limit" (#4). The LP sold over four million copies and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, but lost to "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon.

Bob Dylan, backed by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, shocked the audience at the Newport Folk Festival with his new electric sound. The crowd booed him off the stage after three tunes. After being urged by Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) to return to the stage and go acoustic, Dylan sang two songs to the now-silent audience - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "Mr. Tambourine Man".

A riot broke out during a The Rolling Stones' gig at The Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lancashire. Keith Richards noticed a man with his hands on the stage exhorting the crowd to spit, and warned him, but the spitting continued. Richards is then reported to have stood on his hands and kicked him in the face, whereupon some of the 7,000 fans in attendance started fighting, causing over £4,000 in damage. Blackpool City Council later voted to ban The Stones from playing in the city. Forty-four years later, the 2008 council voted to lift the suspension, but a spokesman for the group said they had no plans to return.

The Troggs led the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cashbox Best Sellers chart with their version of "Wild Thing". The song had been issued by a New York band called The Wild Ones last November, but it failed to chart. Troggs' Lead singer Reg Presley would later say that after hearing the song for the first time, he was hesitant to record it because the words were "so corny." Their rendition was ranked at number 257 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The Doors perform "Crystal Ship" and "Light My Fire" on American Bandstand.

"Hot Fun In The Summertime" by Sly And The Family Stone is release by by Epic Records. It would peak at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, kept out of the top spot by "I Can't Get Next to You" by The Temptations. The song would later be ranked by Rolling Stone at #247 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.