Better late than never on June 3 – Born – Memphis Minnie (aka Lizzie Douglas, 1897) – Blues singer/songwriter. Jan Peerce (aka Joshua Perelmuth, 1904) – Operatic and Broadway singer. Josephine Baker (aka Freda McDonald, 1906) – dancer/singer (Jai deux amours). Jimmy Rogers (1924) – guitarist for Muddy Waters. Homer Boots Randolph III (1927) – American saxophonist (Yakety Sax). Dakota Staton (1930) – jazz singer (The Late, Late Show). Eddie Chank Willis (1936) – guitarist with the Funk Brothers. Ian Hunter (1939) – singer/songwriter/guitarist for Mott The Hoople. Charles Fizer (1940) – The Olympics. Curtis Mayfield (1942) – R&B/soul singer/songwriter, The Impressions. Mike Dennis (aka Mike Freda, 1943) – The Dovells. Michael Clarke (1946) – drummer for The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Firefall. Eddie Holman (1946) – singer (Hey There Lonely Girl). Mickey Finn (1947) – percussionist for T. Rex. David Alexander (1947) – original bassist for The Stooges. Florian Pilkington-Miksa (1950) – drummer for Curved Air. Deniece Williams (1950) – R&B/soul singer. Suzi Quatro (1950) – singer/songwriter/bassist. Billy Powell (1952) – keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd and Vision. Dan Hill (1954) – Canadian singer/songwriter (Sometimes When We Touch). Danny Wilde (1956) – The Rembrandts. David Cole (1962) – Producer/member of C+C Music Factory. Kerry King (1964) – guitarist for Slayer. Mike Gordon (1965) – bassist for Phish. Kelly Jones (1974) – songwriter/guitarist/vocalist for Stereophonics. R.I.P. – Ozzie Nelson (1975) – liver cancer. Age 69. Bandleader. Ralph Gleason (1975) – Age 58. Jazz/pop music critic, founder of Rolling Stone magazine. Stiv Bators (1990) – concussion from being hit by a taxi. Age 40. The Dead Boys. Richard Sohl (1990) – heart attack. Age 37. Keyboardist for The Patti Smith Group. Johnny Grande (2006) – cancer. Age 76. Keyboardist for Bill Haley and His Comets. David Carradine (2009) – autoerotic asphyxiation. Age 72. Actor/musician, Cosmic Rescue Team. Sam Butera (2009) – Alzheimers disease. Age 81. Saxophonist with Louis Prima. Koko Taylor (2009) – complications from surgery. Age 80. Chicago blues singer. Benny Spellman (2011) – respiratory failure. Age 79. R&B singer (Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)). Andrew Gold (2011) – heart failure. Age 59. Singer/songwriter. Album releases – Elton John – Empty Sky (1969) UK Deep Purple – Deep Purple In Rock (1970) Pink Floyd – Obscured By Clouds (1972) Bob Marley and The Wailers – Exodus (1977) Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (1978) Raven – Wiped Out (1982) America – Your Move (1983) Bryan Ferry – Boys And Girls (1985) Belinda Carlisle – Belinda (1986) Willie Nelson – Wholl Buy My Memories: The I.R.S. Tapes (1991) Deacon Blue – Fellow Hoodlums (1991) U.S. Bruce Dickinson – Balls To Picasso (1994) Michael Penn – Resigned (1997) Pat Benatar – Innamorata (1997) Steve Winwood – Junction Seven (1997) Roy Buchanan – American Axe: Live In 1974 (2003) Roxy Music – Live (2003) Events – 1949 – Hank Williams makes his final appearance on the Louisiana Hayride. 1952 – Frank Sinatra records “Birth Of The Blues” in Hollywood for Columbia Records. 1953 – Elvis Presley graduates from Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee. 1955 – Buddy Holly opens for Elvis Presley at a free show at Connellys Pontiac Showroom car dealership in Lubbock, Texas, after which they sign autographs together. 1957 – The Isley Brothers release their debut single, “The Angels Cried” b/w “The Cow Jumped Over The Moon,” on Teenage Records. 1958 – Jerry Wallace records How The Time Flies at Gold Star in Hollywood. 1959 – Elvis Presley enters the base hospital in Germany suffering from tonsillitis, where he will stay for six days. 1963 – The mayor of Aurora, Indiana, declares the day Lonnie Mack Day. 1964 – The Rolling Stones make their second television appearance in the U.S. on The Hollywood Palace, performing I Just Want To Make Love To You and “Not Fade Away.” Dean Martin is the host. 1964 – During a morning photo shoot for The Saturday Evening Post, Ringo Starr collapses and is hospitalized with tonsillitis and pharyngitis less than 28 hours before starting a world tour. Too late to cancel the tour, Brian Epstein and George Martin agree on a replacement, and in the evening, session drummer Jimmy Nicol is brought in to Abbey Road studios to rehearse with The Beatles as Ringos temporary stand-in. George Harrison is furious with the idea of having a stand-in drummer, and let’s everyone know. 1965 – Gary Lewis and The Playboys record “Save Your Heart For Me” with help from the Wrecking Crew. 1966 – The Kinks release their single, “Sunny Afternoon” b/w “I’m Not Like Everybody Else,” in the UK. 1966 – Jimmy Ruffin releases his single, What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted b/w Baby Ive Got It. 1967 – Jefferson Airplane appears on American Bandstand, lip-synching to Somebody To Love and White Rabbit back-to-back. 1967 – The Doors release their single, “Light My Fire” b/w “The Crystal Ship.” 1968 – Valerie Solanas shoots Velvet Underground producer and artist Andy Warhol and art curator Mario Amaya at Warhols art studio in New York City after Warhol claims he lost a script she gave him. Warhol is pronounced dead at the scene, but is revived and survives. 1970 – After the BBC bans The Kinks Lola for the songs reference to Coca-Cola, Ray Davies flies 6,000 miles round trip from London to New York and back again just to record the line cherry cola to replace the Coke plug. 1970 – Stevie Wonder releases his single, Signed, Sealed, Delivered Im Yours b/w Im More Than Happy (Im Satisfied), on Tamla Records. 1970 – Bob Dylan records Kingston Town (Jamaica), Cant Help Falling In Love With You, Long Black Veil, Lily Of The West, and One More Weekend at Columbia Studios in New York City. 1972 – The Rolling Stones begin their Exile On Main St. Tour at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, with Martha Reeves and Stevie Wonder as opening acts. 1975 – The original production of Chicago: A Vaudeville Musical - simply known as just Chicago - opens at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway and runs for 936 performances over the next two years. 1983 – Renowned session drummer Jim Gordon - an undiagnosed schizophrenic suffering from psychosis and hearing voices - murders his mother with a hammer and knife. 1989 – Reba McIntire gets married for the second time to her manager and guitar player, Narvel Blackstock. They are still married. 1990 – The Big Day festival takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, featuring Wet Wet Wet, Deacon Blue, Hothouse Flowers, Sheena Easton, The Silencers, John Martyn, The Chimes, Big Country, Hue And Cry, The Average White Band, Aswad, Billy Bragg and others. Six hours of the event is broadcast live on television. 1991 – In an attempt to pay off some of his back tax debt, Willie Nelson releases the album, Wholl Buy My Memories: The I.R.S. Tapes. 1994 – Pearl Jams Eddy Vedder marries long-time girlfriend and Hovercraft guitarist Beth Liebling in Rome, Italy. They stay married for six years. 1994 – Former lead singer for Lighthouse Bob McBride is sentenced to 90 days in jail for robbing a drug store to feed his heroin habit. McBride is also ordered to organize two benefit concerts to raise drug abuse awareness. 2000 – Just days after being fired from The Allman Brothers Band, guitarist Dickey Betts is arrested for threatening his wifes life and trashing their house. He is admitted to a psychiatric hospital for overnight evaluation, and released the next day. 2000 – Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw are arrested outside the George Strait Country Music Festival at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, New York, when Chesney steals a Mounted Reserve Deputys horse and McGraw intervenes against the deputies when they try to catch Chesney. 2002 – In the UK, the Queens Golden Jubilee concert is held, featuring Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Sting, Elton John, Joe Cocker, The Corrs, Cliff Richard and many others. 2003 – Barry Manilow breaks his nose and knocks himself unconscious for four hours when he accidently walks into a wall in his Palm Springs home. 2010 – Hundreds walk out of a Whitney Houston concert at the Denmark Forum in Copenhagen when the singer continues to falter and sing out of tune. In his review of the concert, critic Thomas Soie Hansen of the Berlingske Tidende newspaper wrote: “She looked and sounded like a person who doesn’t have many years left to live. At the end of the show she looked like she was ready to explode.”
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