On June 16, 1967, the Monterey Pop Festival opened to the public, kicking off the Summer of Love and boosting countless artists' careers.

Today in Music History for June 16: ...

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Jimi Hendrix famously played the final slot at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969, but who had opened the show three ...

It was the philosopher’s stone for an entire generation and for many in succeeding generations.” One philosopher after ...

MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL..AND A MOMENT ON STAGE THAT ... some differences between the genre of music at Monterey Pop (Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Otis Redding, Jefferson Airplane, Simon ...

It was their 1967 appearance at Monterey Festival, California ... the bill with home-grown legends such as Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, with the latter smashing his guitar like ...

I was admittedly not alive when the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival ... With the huge shadow of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin’s performances over the festival, few remember this particular legendary ...

the legendary 1969 music festival that took place in upstate New York 55 years ago next week and drew nearly half a million attendees to hear such rock legends as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin ...

By Lindsay Zoladz Fifty-seven years ago today, the Monterey International Pop Festival ... Elliot watching Joplin and mouthing the word “wow.” The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience ...