This Day in Music History...

1964: Still known as The High Numbers, The Who cut an audition tape at Abbey Road studios, recording such material as "Smokestack Lightning."

1966: Jimi Hendrix and his manager, Chas Chandler, arrive in London from New York, where Chandler had discovered Hendrix playing in Greenwich Village clubs.  Chandler convinces Hendrix that Britain will be more receptive to his style.  During the flight, Hendrix decides to change the spelling of his first name from Jimmy to Jimi.

2000: The Black Crowes, The Allman Brothers Band, Phil Lesh and Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes and Matt Abts perform at One for Woody, a tribute to late Gov't Mule bassist Allen Woody at New York's Roseland.

2005: Jimmy Page is named an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro for his charitable work with Brazil's poor and abandoned children through ABC Trust, a charity founded in 1998 by his wife.

2006: Bad Company bassist Boz Burrell dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 at his home in Spain.