Rock and Metal History, a day like today August 4

1964: The Kinks release "You Really Got Me" in the UK. With a distorted guitar sound accomplished by taking a razor blade to an amplifier, it becomes their first hit, spending two weeks at #1 UK in September.

1966: The Troggs were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'With A Girl Like You', the group's only UK No.1 single.

1967: Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper At the Gates of Dawn on which most songs were penned by Syd Barrett. In subsequent years, the record has been recognised as one of the seminal psychedelic rock albums of the 1960s. When reviewed, by the two main UK music papers in the UK, Record Mirror and NME both gave the album four stars out of five. The album which was recorded at Abbey Road studios, London during the same time that The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper peaked at No.6 on the UK album chart and failed to chart in the US.

1968: The Newport Pop Festival attracts 100,000 with Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and The Animals.

2002: Bruce Springsteen scored his fifth UK No.1 album with 'The Rising', also No.1 in the US.

2006: John Locke (keyboardist for Nazareth, Spirit) dies of cancer at age 62. He was an American rock keyboardist and a member of the rock group Spirit. Locke was also a member of the band Nazareth in the early 1980s.He also played keyboards on the Stray Cats album Gonna Ball. Locke was born in Los Angeles, California.