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