Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new band, Wings with his wife Linda on keyboards, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine.

Robert Allen Zimmerman emerged from the Supreme Court building at 111 Centre St. in downtown Manhattan with a new, legal name; Robert Dylan.

Chubby Checker's "The Twist" is released in the US, where it will become the number one song by mid-September. Record industry history was made when Checker's original hit recording re-entered the charts in the Fall of 1961 and by January of 1962, was back in the number one position. It was the first record ever to hit number one on two separate occasions.

The Eagles split up after Glenn Frey and Don Felder nearly broke into fisticuffs onstage in Long Beach, California. Angry at the way Felder spoke to Senator Alan Cranston earlier in the day, tensions were high onstage between the two. Frey later recalled. "We're out there singing 'Best of My Love', but inside both of us are thinking, 'As soon as this is over, I'm gonna kill him.' That was when I knew I had to get out." After the show ended, Felder smashed what Frey later described as "a cheap guitar" against the wall backstage and sped away in a limo. The group went their separate ways, with Frey enjoying a highly successful solo career in which he placed seven songs on the Billboard Top 40 between 1982 and 1988. Don Henley would do the same, putting ten singles on the chart between 1981 and 1992. As for Felder, he issued a low selling album, "Airborne" in 1983.

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Former member of The Spencer Davis Group and Traffic, Steve Winwood had the number 1 record in the US this week with "Roll With It". It stayed at the top for four weeks, making it the number one song of the year. In the UK however, it stalled at #53. Winwood's next release, "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" also made it into the US Top Ten, while the following singles, "Holding On" and "One and Only Man" cracked the Top Twenty.

The Rolling Stones' contract with Decca Records expired and they begin talking about forming their own label. Showing their contempt for the record company and to fill a contractual obligation, the band hands over one final disc called "C***sucker Blues". They also inform their business manager, Allen Klein, that he is fired and that "neither he nor his company, ABKCO Industries, have any authority to negotiate recording contracts on their behalf."

Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band" is released. It will top the Billboard chart near the end of September

Chuck Berry's first hit record, "Maybellene" enters the Billboard R&B chart where it will reach #1 during an eleven week run. The song, which also climbed to #5 on the Hot 100, was adapted from the traditional fiddle tune "Ida Red", and tells the story of a hot rod race and a broken romance. It went on to sell a million copies by the end of the year and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988

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.