Rock and Metal History, a day like today June 16

1965: Bob Dylan recorded 'Like A Rolling Stone' at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the sessions for the forthcoming 'Highway 61 Revisited' album. Session musicians included Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, whose Hammond organ on 'Like A Rolling Stone' became one of rock's most recognizable sounds

1967: The Monterey International Pop Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California begins. This historic festival introduces Hard Rock icons Janis Joplin, The Who andThe Jimi Hendrix Experience to the American mainstream and pop culture world.

1967: Pink Floyd released their second single 'See Emily Play' which was written by original frontman Syd Barrett. The slide guitar work on the song was done by Barrett using a plastic ruler.

1982: Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died following sustained cocaine and heroin addiction.

1989: Skid Row released the single "18 And Life"

1991: Type o negative released debut album "Slow, Deep And Hard" on Roadrunner Records. The album, originally titled None More Negative and released in 1990 under the group's former name Repulsion,launched the band's career. low, Deep and Hard is a semi-autobiographical album with heavy amounts of black humor, based on a relationship in which the vocalist/bass guitarist Peter Steele was involved. In keeping with the band's notable humor, the cover of Slow, Deep and Hard is of a blurred out picture of sexual penetration

1996: Metallica went to No.1 on the UK album charts with their album 'Load'.

-Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugees, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Lee Hooker, Beck, Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, De La Soul and Richie Havens all appeared at the two-day Tibetan Freedom Concert, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: A sell-out crowd of over 100,000 made it the largest US benefit concert since Live Aid in 1985.

1998: Metallica released the single "Fuel"

2008: Coldplay kicked off their Viva la Vida, 161-date world tour at the Brixton Academy in London, England.

– Disturbed were at No.1 on the Australian album chart with ‘Indestuctible.’

2010: The Big Four , Metallica - Megadeth - Slayer - Anthrax , performed for the first time ever at Sonisphere

2013: Black Sabbath established a new UK chart record for the longest gap between No.1 albums when their new release, 13 debuted at the top of the charts, 42 years and 8 months after their second album Paranoid reached No.1.

Born on this day

1951: American singer Charlie Dominici who worked with progressive metal band Dream Theater, having replaced Chris Collins.

1953: Ian Mosley, drums, Marillion, (joined in 1983, 1985 UK No.2 single 'Kayleigh').

1972: Kiko Loureiro guitarist with Megadeth and Angra .