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Led Zeppelin is awarded a Gold record for the double disc album "Physical Graffiti". The LP would eventually be certified as 16 times Platinum for sales of over 8 million copies.

The Mannish Boys, featuring a young David Bowie, released their debut single "I Pity The Fool". The guitar solo was performed by Jimmy Page, who was a session musician at the time.

Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' "Surfin' USA", which will rise to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is just a rewritten version of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen", with new lyrics by Brian Wilson. Arc Music, Berry's publisher, objected, and was given the sole copyright, including Brian Wilson's lyrics.

The Jeff Beck group, featuring a virtually unknown singer named Rod Stewart, along with bass player Ron Wood and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, make their debut in London, England.

Bo Diddley has his first recording session at Universal Recording Studio in Chicago, where he lays down "Bo Diddley", which will top the Billboard R&B chart by the following June. Even though the song didn't crack the Hot 100, it was added in 2012 to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" American sound recordings.

Manfred Mann earns a Gold record for "Blinded by the Light," a song written by Bruce Springsteen. It was their first US number one record since "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" thirteen years earlier.

After the family of the late Count Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin threatens a lawsuit, Led Zeppelin performs in Copenhagen, Denmark as The Nobs. The band had earlier invited Countess Frau Eva von Zeppelin to meet with them for a cup of tea at a television studio, and by all accounts the conference was very friendly. However, her anger rekindled when she saw the cover of their debut album "Led Zeppelin", featuring the Hindenburg airship crashing to the ground in flames. The noblewoman angrily described the group as "shrieking monkeys."

Pink Floyd record their first single, "Arnold Layne", which will top the UK charts but won't crack the Hot 100 in the US.

Guitarist Jimmy Page released a solo single called "She Just Satisfies", which would fail to chart on either side of the Atlantic.

Van Halen's "Jump" peaks at #1 in the US and #7 in the UK. Over the years David Lee Roth has given various accounts of the meaning behind the lyrics, but most often says they are about a TV news story he saw where a man was about to kill himself by jumping off a building.

Alice Cooper decided to stick it to “the man” and throw his hat into the ring or the governorship of Arizona, but instead of declaring himself to be a representative of either the Democratic or Republican parties, he instead went way independent by citing himself as representing a different party altogether.

“I’m definitely a write-in candidate,” Cooper told People Magazine at the time. “Hey, I’m a native. I’m a registered voter. I represent the Wild Party, and I even have a campaign slogan: ‘Alice Cooper: A Troubled Man for Troubled Times.”

According to Joe Rhatigan’s Bizarre Politics, Cooper had a backup slogan, too – “A Messed-Up Governor for a Messed-Up State” – but as it happens, he never had the opportunity to whip out either of them. You see, the only reason the topic came up was because Arizona’s governor at the time had found himself on the receiving end of a recall petition, but when he was impeached and removed from office, the secretary of state took over his position, leaving an election unnecessary.