On this day in 1970 Deep Purple played in London, Lyceum - UK with Julian's Treatment, Blond On Blond.

July 5th in Rory history: 1964 Cork IRL Musgrave Park 1970 Bielefeld DE Open Air Radrennbahn 1971 Twente NL Enschede Technische Hogeschool 1980 Christchurch NZ Town Hall 1985 Montreux CH Jazz Festival 1986 Dinkelsbühl DE Out In The Green Festival w/ Jethro Tull (📸 Wolfgang Guerster)

July 5, 1970 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI

July 5, 1977, Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas

A full-page ad from Aretha Franklin thanking Cash Box magazine for naming her Best Female R&B Vocalist in the magazine’s July 5, 1975 issue.

July 5, 1974: Bayfront Center St. Petersburg, Florida

July 5, 1970 Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MI

July 5, 1974 Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA

July 5, 1974 Ambassador Theatre, St. Louis, MO

July 5, 1975 Masten, Kristianopel, SWE

July 5, 1975 Knebworth Park, Knebworth, ENG

July 5, 1972 Grant's Cinema III Theater, Red Bank, NJ

July 5-6, 1974 Convention Hall, Atlantic City, NJ

July 5, 1972 Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, MI

July 5-6, 1974 Booth Farm, Buxton, ENG

uly 5-8, 1977 Village Gate, New York, NY

July 5, 1970 Sick's Stadium, Seattle, WA

July 5, 1970 Radrennbahn, Bielefeld, GER

July 5, 1974: Linda Ronstadt records her breakthrough hit "You're No Good" at the Sound Factory in Hollywood with producer Peter Asher, for her album Album "Heart Like A Wheel". It got to #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart. #AT40

July 4th in Rory history: 1969 London GB The Marquee 1970 Hamm DE Zentralhallen Hamm-Süd Pop & Blues Festival 1974 London GB Golders Green 1975 Montreux CH Montreux Jazz Festival Guitarist Night (📸 Andrew Putler) 1980 Dunedin NZ Regent Theatre 1987 Tennskjaer NO Midnightsun Rock

Born 4 Jul 1938, Bill Withers, US singer-songwriter who had the 1972 US No.1 single 'Lean On Me', & the 1972 UK No.4 single 'Lovely Day'. Toward the end of that song, he holds a note for 18 seconds which is believed to be the 2nd-longest note ever in UK chart history. He died in 2020. #BillWithers

July 4-5, 1970 Progressiv Pop Festival Ostseehalle, Kiel, West Germany

A tribute to America’s Bi-Centennial from Gladys Knight & the Pips in the July 4, 1976 issue of Billboard magazine

July 4, 1976 Fourth of July Jam in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

July 4, 1976 Bi-Centennial Jam at the Rockford Speedway in Love’s Park, Illinois

Billboard magazine celebrated America’s Bi-Centennial with a special supplement in the July 4, 1976 issue

July 4, 1973 Apollo Stadium, Adelaide, Australia,

July 4, 1997 Freilichtbuhne Peissnitz, Halle, GER

July 4, 1976: In a defining moment for punk rock in Britain, the Ramones play the Roundhouse in Camden. Local acts like The Sex Pistols and The Clash soon gain notoriety.

July 4, 1973 Hurlbut Ranch, Dripping Springs, TX

July 4, 1972 Bakersfield Speedway, Bakersfield, CA

July 4, 1978 Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL

July 4-7, 1975 The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA

July 4–5, 1970 McMahon Stadium, Calgary, AB

July 4-8, 1973 Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston, MI

July 4, 1970 Zentralhallen Hamm-Süd, Hamm, GER

July 4, 1971: Following a week-long celebration with performances by Santana, The Grateful Dead, Boz Scaggs and several other acts that played there since it opened in 1968, San Francisco's Fillmore West concert hall closes.

July 4, 1974: The Tony Orlando & Dawn TV show debuts on CBS. Tony's pants were so tight that.........

July 4, 1970: Casey Kasem debuts the radio show American Top 40, where he counts down the Billboard hits (the #1 song: "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" by Three Dog Night). He hosts the show until 2004, when Ryan Seacrest takes over. #AT40

July 3, 1978: US Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" in 1973

July 3, 1970 Middle Georgia Raceway, Atlanta, GA

June 3, 1973 Madison Square Garden New York ,NY

June 3, 1978 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

June 3, 1973 Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH

June 3, 1972 Sunken Gardens, San Antonio, TX

June 3, 1974 Pinkpop '74, Sport Park Burgemeester, Geleen, NED

June 3, 1972 Pavillon des Sports, Lausanne, SUI

June 3, 1971 Guildhall, Southampton, ENG

June 3, 1970 City Hall, Newcastle, ENG