July 17
• 1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience opens for The Monkees at N.Y.’s Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
July 20
• 1965: Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” is released by Columbia Records
July 21
• 1990: Roger Waters performs “The Wall” at the former site of The Berlin Wall
July 23
• 1980: Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux dies two days after a car accident
July 25
• 1969: Neil Young makes his first appearance with Crosby, Stills & Nash at the Fillmore East
• 1965: Bob Dylan plugs in his guitar and is booed at the Newport Folk Festival