Births
1932: O.C.
Smith (R&B Singer)
1944: Ray
Davies (Guitarist & Lead Singer of The Kinks)
1947: Joey
Molland (Guitar for Badfinger)
1950: Joey
Kramer (Drummer for Aerosmith)
1951: Nils
Lofgren (Guitarist for Bruce Springsteen)
1952: Marcella Detroit (Singer for Shakespears
Sister)
1957: Mark Brzezicki (Drums for Big Country)
1959: Kathy
Mattea (Country Singer)
1961: Kip
Winger (Singer for Winger)
1969: Pat Sansone (multi-instrumentalist for
Wilco)
1970: Pete Rock (Peter Phillips) (DJ and Rapper)
1976: Michael Einziger (Guitar for Incubus)
1981: Brandon Flowers (Vocals & Keyboards for
The Killers)
1985: Kris Allen (American Idol Winner 2009)
Events
1962: As part
of manager Brian Epstein's plan to get the band wider exposure by having them
open for established acts, the Beatles open for Bruce Chanel of "Hey!
Baby!" fame at the Tower Ballroom, in New Brighton, England. Backstage,
Channel's harmonica player, who will go on to fame as Delbert McClinton, offers
John Lennon some tips on playing harmonica, which Lennon will later put to use
on the band's first single, "Love Me Do."
1966: The
Rolling Stones sue fourteen New York City hotels who have refused to admit the
band during their North American tour, disingenuously accusing them of
"discrimination on account of national origin."
1966: Jimmy Page made his live debut with The
Yardbirds at the Marquee Club, London.
1966: Tom Jones needed 14 stitches in his
forehead after his Jaguar was involved in a car crash in Marble Arch, London.
1967: San
Francisco's Golden Gate Park celebrates the Summer Solstice with a free concert
with entertainment by The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company,
and Quicksilver Messenger Service.
1968:
Influenced by the recent assassination of Robert Kennedy, Steve Binder,
director of Elvis Presley's upcoming NBC-TV special, asks musical director
Bones Howe to write a "socially conscious" song for Elvis' big
closing number, which had been slated to be the standard "I'll Be Home For
Christmas." Howe writes the replacement song, "If I Can Dream,"
that afternoon; after hearing it a half-dozen times, Elvis agrees to end with
it.
1970: Who
guitarist Pete Townshend, while waiting for his flight at the airport in
Memphis, likens the band's latest album, Tommy, to the atomic bomb,
causing officials who misheard the remark to search the facilities for a real
bomb.
1973: The
band Bread, already having decided to break up, play their last live gig ever
in Salt Lake City after one of its tour trucks flips over and destroys most of
its gear.
1975: Deep
Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore leaves the band to form Rainbow.
1975: James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is"
was released.
1976: Reba McEntire marries Charlie Battles at
the First Baptist Church in Stringtown, Oklahoma. They honeymoon in Texas,
where they promote her latest single to radio stations.
1979: Angus MacLise, Velvet Underground's first
drummer died of tuberculosis aged 34. He quit the band in 1965.
1980: French police arrested all members of The
Stranglers after a concert at Nice University for allegedly starting a riot.
1981: After a
number of lawsuits, deaths, and accidents, Steely Dan break up, not to fully
reform onstage until 2000.
1988: The
Rascals reunite onstage for the first time in eighteen years.
1990: Little
Richard is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Blvd.
1994: George Michael lost his lawsuit against
Sony Records. Michael claimed that his 15-year contract with Sony was unfair
because the company could refuse to release albums it thought wouldn't be
commercially successful. Michael vowed he would never record for Sony again. He
re-signed with the company in 2003.
1999: Pantera rode a float in the Dallas Stars
Stanley Cup victory parade in downtown Dallas. Pantera is responsible for the
Stars' theme song.
2000: 39 year-old Karen McNeil who claimed she
was the wife of Axl Rose and that she communicated with him telepathically was
jailed for one year for stalking the singer.
2001: John Lee Hooker, American blues singer and
guitarist, died in his sleep aged 83. He appeared and sang in the 1980 movie
The Blues Brothers.
2003: Johnny
Cash makes a surprise appearance live on stage in Hiltons, VA, near the
birthplace of his recently-deceased wife June Carter Cash, saying "I don't
hardly know what to say tonight about being up here without her... the pain is
so severe, there's no way of describing it."
2007: After
dating her for a full eighteen years, Tony Bennett marries teacher Susan Crow.
