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Friday, June 20, 2014
Tom Rounds
Creator of the rock festival, music-video pioneer, and co-creator of "American Top 40" -- via Rolling Stone. The KRFC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival took place on Mount Tamalpais on June 10-11, 1967 -- beating Monterey Pop by one week to be the first rock festival ever, and the birthplace of the Summer of Love and hippie culture.
