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The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30 to September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock . The site for the event was an open field just south and west of the newly opened Dallas International Motor Speedway , located on the east side of Interstate Highway ...
12 July – Summer Pop Festival; 21 July – Schaefer Music Festival – headliners at New York City's Wollman Rink, along with B.B. King; 25 July – Midwest Rock Festival; 27 July – Seattle Pop Festival – the infamous shark episode is alleged to have taken place at this time; 30 August – Singer Bowl Music Festival; 31 August – Texas ...
Led Zeppelin also performed at several music festivals over the years, including the Atlanta International and the Texas International Pop Festivals in 1969, the Bath Festival of Blues in 1969 and the next one in 1970, the "Days on the Green" in Oakland, California in 1977, and the Knebworth Music Festival in 1979.
The Seattle Pop's line-up was a mix of established acts, native groups from the Pacific Northwest. Twenty-six musicians and groups performed at the festival. The Doors, Chuck Berry, The Byrds and The Ike & Tina Turner Revue were among the most highly-anticipated acts, but newcomers Led Zeppelin emerged as the highlight.
Performers: Led Zeppelin; ... (920), the M'WOKY Pops Festival debuted in 1969, two months before the Midwest Rock Festival, with a lineup that echoed the station's playlist. The first festival ...
The festival was organized by a seventeen-member promotional team that included Chris Cowing, Robin Conant and Alex Cooley. Cooley was also one of the organizers of the Texas International Pop Festival a few weeks later on Labor Day weekend, as well as the second, and last, Atlanta International Pop Festival the following summer, and the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico from April 1 to 3 ...
Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds) Robert Plant (Band of Joy) John Bonham (Band of Joy) John Paul Jones (Session musician) Albums: Led Zeppelin (1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III (1970), Led Zeppelin IV (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), Physical Graffiti (1975), Presence (1976), In Through the Out Door (1979) 1969 Blind Faith
Aside from forming Led Zeppelin, one of the most successful bands of all time, Jimmy Page’s style and influence as a guitarist are immeasurable. Long-haired and bell-bottomed, Page was the ...