Billboard reported that independent record companies were expanding at an unprecedented pace. Regional labels including Sun, Chess, Atlantic, and Dot had collectively taken in about $20 million during the previous year, beginning to erode the market once dominated by the major corporations known as the “Big Seven.”

Bandleader and powerful A&R executive Mitch Miller reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 100 with “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” a song whose origins dated to 1853. Despite his success as a producer and recording artist, Miller was openly hostile toward rock and roll.

Toronto vocal quartet the Four Lads entered Billboard’s Top 100 with “Moments to Remember.” The single became their biggest hit, peaking at No. 2 during a 25-week chart run and launching a sequence of twelve Top 40 records.

Lou Christie recorded “Lightnin’ Strikes” at Olmstead Studios in New York, with backing vocals by Bernadette Carroll, Peggy Santiglia, and Denise Ferri of the Delicates. The song topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cashbox chart the following February; Santiglia had also sung with the Angels of “My Boyfriend’s Back” fame.

Donovan earned his only U.S. No. 1 when “Sunshine Superman” began a one-week stay atop the Billboard Hot 100. Recorded in December 1965, it featured future Led Zeppelin members John Paul Jones on bass and Jimmy Page on lead guitar; contractual problems delayed its British release, where it later reached No. 3.

The Happenings’ debut chart single, “See You in September,” peaked at No. 3 on Billboard. The New Jersey quartet would place four more songs in the Top 40, including another No. 3 hit, “I Got Rhythm,” in 1967.

ABC aired The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in prime time for the final time, ending a landmark 14-season network run. The Nelson family sitcom, which helped make Ricky Nelson a teen idol, had become the first scripted U.S. prime-time series to last more than a decade.

Michigan garage-rock band ? and the Mysterians made their national chart debut when “96 Tears” entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 75. Driven by its stark Vox-organ riff, the record climbed to No. 1 on October 29.

Ringo Starr returned to the Beatles at Abbey Road after a tense two-week absence that included a stay in Sardinia. George Harrison welcomed him by covering his drum kit with flowers; while Starr was away, the other three Beatles had recorded “Back in the U.S.S.R.” and “Dear Prudence,” with Paul McCartney handling drums.

The Dave Clark Five announced their breakup, closing one of the British Invasion’s most successful runs. Between 1964 and 1967 the Tottenham group accumulated 17 U.S. Top 40 hits, while placing 19 records on the UK chart from 1963 through 1970.

Canned Heat co-founder Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson was found dead behind bandmate Bob Hite’s home in Topanga Canyon from a barbiturate overdose, aged 27, shortly before the group was due to leave for Europe. The gifted guitarist, harmonica player, and environmentalist sang lead on “On the Road Again” and “Going Up the Country.”

Shock-rock pioneer Arthur Brown was arrested for public obscenity at Sicily’s Palermo Pop ’70 Festival after setting his trademark helmet alight and stripping naked onstage. Italian authorities held him in solitary confinement for four days before deporting him; a later story about a citizens’ petition ordering him out of Italy has never been verified.

Only weeks after Elvis Presley’s death, British record buyers put “Moody Blue” at No. 1 on the album chart and “Way Down” atop the singles chart, alongside 26 other Presley albums and eight more singles in the Top 100. The American response was more restrained: “Way Down” stood at No. 35 on the Hot 100 and No. 3 on the country chart.

Soft Cell, the electronic duo of Marc Almond and David Ball, performed their UK No. 1 “Tainted Love” on Top of the Pops. In the United States the record later reached No. 8 and remained on the chart for an extraordinary 43 weeks.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak opened a three-day music festival in San Bernardino featuring the Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, the Police, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Santana, Tom Petty, the Cars, the B-52s, Jackson Browne, Eddie Money, and others. More than 400,000 attended and receipts reached roughly $10 million, yet the event reportedly lost over $12 million.

Ike Turner left prison after serving 18 months of a four-year sentence for drug offenses. He had been arrested repeatedly and later told Variety that he had spent more than $11 million on cocaine.

R&B singer Major Lance died of heart failure at 55. He placed 19 records on Billboard’s R&B chart and another 12 on the Hot 100, and was best remembered for the Top 10 hits “The Monkey Time” and “Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um.”

The original free file-sharing incarnation of Napster effectively ended when a proposed acquisition by Bertelsmann failed to clear bankruptcy court. The company dismissed its remaining employees and replaced its homepage with the message “Napster Was Here”; the brand later returned as a licensed, paid music service.

The Ronettes’ long royalty dispute with producer Phil Spector reached New York’s highest court. The group had recorded 28 songs for Spector from 1963 to 1967 for an initial payment of $14,482 and argued that the contract did not cover later film, television, and advertising uses; the final ruling favored Spector’s ownership position while preserving Ronnie Spector’s share of certain royalties.

Mike Edwards, a founding cellist with Electric Light Orchestra, was killed at 62 when a 600-kilogram hay bale rolled down a field and crushed his van in southwest England.

The British Phonographic Industry announced a triple-Platinum certification for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Although the album had sold more than five million UK copies since 1967, the modern Platinum certification scheme was introduced only in 1994.

Black Sabbath announced The End, billed as the band’s final tour and scheduled to begin in January 2016. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler were confirmed, while estranged original drummer Bill Ward was absent from the announcement.

Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and co-founder of Steely Dan, died at 67. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo had placed eleven albums in the Billboard 200 Top 40 and ten singles in the Hot 100 Top 40.

The Beatles: Get Back won five Emmy Awards. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, director Peter Jackson, and producers including Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison shared the award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, while the production also won for directing, picture editing, sound editing, and sound mixing.