Grateful Dead’s First Concert

1963 – Donny Osmond made his debut with the Osmonds on NBC’s “Andy Williams Show.”

1965 – The Grateful Dead played their first concert. The show took place at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA.

1966 – The Rolling Stones released the album “Got Live If You Want It” in the U.S.

1967 – The Steve Miller Blues Band signed with Capitol Records for $750,000. The group dropped the “Blues” from its name.

1967 – Otis Redding, at age 26, was killed when his tour plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake. Redding’s tour band, the “Bar-Kays,” was also killed.

1968 – John Lennon made his first solo TV appearance.

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