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
July 29
• 1974: Mama Cass Elliott dies in her London apartment from a heart attack at the age of 32
• 1968: The Byrds leave for a tour of South Africa without Gram Parsons, who claimed he refused to enter a country that allows apartheid. The decision ended Parsons tenure with The Byrds