A good Independence Day to you, Rockers! 

 

The first of 2 days of the Atlanta Pop Festival, featuring Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Johnny Winter, Blood Sweat & Tears, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival,Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, Spirit, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and more opened on this day in 1969

Other Noteworthy classic rock events on July 4 include... 

1948 Fleetwood Mac’s Jeremy Spencer born.

1955 John Waite born.

1958 INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly born.

1963 Counting Crows bass player Matt Mailey born.
1972 Willie Nelson stages his first 4th of July Picnic.

1973 Slade drummer Don Powell injured, girlfriend killed in a car wreck.

1976 Clash does first concert, Sheffield, UK.

1982 Ozzy Osbourne marries his manager, Sharon Arden. 

1985 Jimmy Page guests during Beach Boys sets in Philadelphia and Washington. DC.

1986 Farm Aid II is staged in Manor, Texas with Bod Dylan, Neil Young, John Mellencamp. Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Walsh, Steve Earle, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tom Petty and more.

1987 Doobie Brothers, Santana, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor play Moscow. 

Dylan & The Dead open tour in Foxborough, MA.  

2005 Elton John does a free concert in Philadelphia.   

2009 Foo Fighters play the White House lawn before the DC fireworks display.