Phillips was born Holly Michelle Gilliam in Long Beach, California.

Phillips is the last surviving member of the original 1960s group The Mamas
and the Papas. She began acting in the 1970s and continues to act in movies
and in television.

Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California)

Cher has sold over 100 million records and won Billboard’s Artist of the
Year Award in 2002. As a child she was put into foster care when her
parents were stricken with poverty. She later gained fame as a member
of the duo Sonny and Cher with Sonny Bono.

1965

The song “I got You Babe” was featured as one of the greatest duets of all
times by both Billboard and Rolling Stone magazine.

"Call Me" by Blondie was number one for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart,
where it became the band’s biggest single and second #1 hit. Blondie is a rock
band founded by singer Debbie Harry (below) and guitarist Chris Stein.

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry will be 70 July 1.

Trinidad "Trini" López III was born in Dallas, Texas.

Lopez formed his first band in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age
of 15. In 1958, at the recommendation of Buddy Holly, Trini
and his group "The Big Beats" went to producer Norman Petty
in Clovis, New Mexico. Petty secured them to a contract with
Columbia Records, which released the single "Clark’s Expedition"
/"Big Boy", both instrumental. Lopez left the group and made his
first solo recording, his own composition "The Right To Rock",
for the Dallas-based Volk Records.

"If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" is a song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the progressive movement.

In their Clearwater, Florida hotel room, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
worked out the opening guitar riff of "Satisfaction", following the purchase 
of a Gibson fuzz-box (similar to below) by Richards earlier that day.

Maestro Fuzz-Tone – Originally built in 1962 or 1963