Everybody must get stoned on June 20 – Born – Jimmy Driftwood (aka James Morris, 1907) – Folk musician/songwriter (The Battle Of New Orleans). Danny Cedrone (1920) – lead guitarist for Bill Haley and His Comets. Chester Chet Atkins (1924) – songwriter/guitarist/producer. Eric Dolphy (1928) – saxophonist with John Coltrane. Billy Guy (1936) – The Coasters. Jerry Keller (1937) – American singer (Here Comes Summer). Mickie Most (aka Michael Hayes, 1938) – British record producer. Brian Wilson (1942) – The Beach Boys. Anne Murray (1945) – Canadian singer. Nigel Morris (1948) – drummer for Isotope. Alan Longmuir (1948) – bassist for The Bay City Rollers. Lionel Richie (1949) – singer/songwriter, The Commodores. Michael Anthony (aka Mike Sobolewski, 1954) – former bassist for Van Halen, Chickenfoot. Kelly Johnson (1958) – guitarist for Girlschool. John Taylor (1960) – bassist for Duran Duran and Power Station. Murphy Karges (1967) – bassist for Sugar Ray. Twiggy Ramirez (aka Jeordie White, 1971) – bassist for Marilyn Manson. R.I.P. – Ira Louvin (1965) – car crash. Age 41. The Louvin Brothers. Bruce Tate (1973) – The Penguins. Lawrence Payton (1997) – liver cancer. Age 59. The Four Tops. Claydes Smith (2006) – Age 57. Guitarist for Kool and The Gang. Album releases – The Beatles – Yesterday And Today (1966) U.S. (trunk cover) The Rolling Stones – Aftermath (1966) U.S. Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde (1966) The Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa (1969) Bob Dylan and The Band – Before The Flood (1974) Neil Young – Tonights The Night (1975) Foreigner – Double Vision (1978) The Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue (1980) Peter Frampton – Rise Up (1980) The Blues Brothers – The Blues Brothers: Music From The Soundtrack (1980) Scorpions – World Wide Live (1985) Chicago – Chicago 19 (1988) Bobby Brown – Don’t Be Cruel (1988) Prince – Batman (1989) The Allman Brothers Band – Dreams (1989) (box set) Big Audio Dynamite – F-Punk (1995) Little Feat – Chinese Work Songs (2000) The Clarks – Let It Go (2000) Guster – Ganging Up On The Sun (2006) Pearl Jam – Live At Easy Street (2006) Events – 1910 – The Broadway musical, Ziegfield Follies Of 1910, opens at the Jardin de Paris Theatre for 88 performances, and features Fanny Brice in her Broadway debut. 1948 – CBS-TV premieres Toast Of The Town with host Ed Sullivan. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are guests. 1956 – Elvis Presley has his first television interview on Memphiss KLAC-TV show Dance Party, with deejay host Wink Martindale. 1958 – Buddy Holly becomes engaged to Maria Elena Santiago on their first date at P.J. Clark’s restaurant on 3rd Avenue in New York City. 1959 – The manager of the Lido Club in Paris calls the hotel where Elvis Presley is still on leave from the Army and demands that his entire chorus line of dancing girls be returned to the club on time for their show. 1961 – Fats Domino records Let The Four Winds Blow and “You Win Again” at Cosimo Studio in New Orleans. 1962 – Rick Nelson records Teenage Idol at Western in Hollywood. 1963 – The Angels record “My Boyfriend’s Back” at A&R Studios in New York City. 1965 – The Beatles begin their final European tour at the Palais des Sports in Paris, France. 1965 – The Dave Clark 5 appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing Glad All Over, Come Home and I Like It Like That. Also on the show is Cab Calloway, singing It Aint Necessarily So and Theres A Boat Leaving Soon For New York. 1966 – Billy Joe Royal, Unit Four Plus Two and The Knickerbockers appear on Where The Action Is. 1966 – Capitol Records re-releases The Beatles new album Yesterday And Today, this time with a new, less offensive cover of the group sitting in and around a steamer trunk. In many cases, the new cover was simply pasted right over the “offensive” butcher cover, which had many record buyers trying to steam the new cover off in order to have the original. 1967 – The Buckinghams begin recording Susan and Hey Baby (Theyre Playing Our Song). 1968 – Elvis Presley begins the first of four days of recording sessions at Western in Hollywood, recording the songs for his upcoming comeback special as “guides.” 1968 – George Harrison and John Lennon work on Revolution 9 at Abbey Road studios. 1969 – The second Newport Rock Festival, Newport 69, begins in Costa Mesa, California, featuring Ike and Tina Turner, Albert King, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joe Cocker, Southwind, Spirit, and Taj Mahal. 1969 – David Bowie records Space Oddity at Trident Studios in London. 1970 – The Jackson 5 appear at The Forum in Inglewood, California, and record the show for a live album release. 1970 – The Ray Stevens Show debuts on NBC-TV as a summer replacement for The Andy Williams Show. 1972 – The Tallahatchie Bridge, made famous in Bobby Gentrys song Ode To Billie Joe, collapses into the river below. 1972 – Elvis Presley appears at the Civic Assembly Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1974 – Van Morrison, The Allman Brothers Band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tim Buckley, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and The Doobie Brothers all appear at Knebworth. 1975 – The Talking Heads make their stage debut, opening for The Ramones at CBGBs. 1975 – Herb Alpert hosts The Midnight Special, and performs with a re-united Tijuana Brass. Other guests include The Captain & Tennille, Phoebe Snow, Supertramp and Billy Preston. 1977 – Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart breaks several bones when he crashes his car into a canyon in California. 1980 – The Blues Brothers movie opens in theaters nationwide. 1980 – The Pretenders’ self-titled debut album is certified gold by the RIAA. 1980 – Fleetwood Mac plays the first of six sold-out nights at Wembley. 1980 – Eddie Rabbitt and Kim Carnes host The Midnight Special, with guests ABBA, Randy Van Warmer, Jermaine Jackson and Teena Marie. 1981 – The disco medley of Beatles songs, Stars On 45, hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. 1985 – Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr marries his girlfriend, Angela Brown. 1986 – Chris de Burgh releases his single, “The Lady In Red” b/w “Borderline” and “The Ecstacy Of Flight (I Love The Night).” 1986 – The 10th anniversary of the Princes Trust Rock Gala concert takes place at Wembley Arena in London, featuring Big Country, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Mark Knopfler, Bryan Adams, Howard Jones, Rod Stewart, Sting, Francis Rossi, George Michael, Rick Parfitt, Midge Ure, Paul Young and others. 1987 – Aerosmith begins their Permanent Vacation Tour at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. 1987 – Dion, The Five Satins, The Brooklyn Bridge, The Del-Satins, and Carlo of The Belmonts all perform at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. 1994 – The Daily Express reports that the three remaining Beatles are recording together and working on a John Lennon demo called Free As A Bird. 1995 – A Los Angeles judge awards ownership of The Kingsmens recordings to the group and away from Scepter-Wand Records, allowing for back royalty payments. 1995 – Jeff Buckley appears at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, on his Mystery White Boy Tour. 1996 – Westinghouse Electric becomes the first entity to cash in on the new 1996 Telecommunications Act, which relaxed restrictions on how many radio and TV stations one company could own in a single market, by purchasing Infinity Broadcasting for $4.9 billion dollars. 1998 – Ozzfest plays its only date in the UK at the Milton Keynes Bowl, featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Soulfly, Pantera, Slayer, Fear Factory, Therapy?, Coal Chamber, Life Of Agony, Human Waste Project, Hed PE, Entombed, and Pitchshifter. 2000 – Mick Jagger is forced to reveal his financial worth in a New York court to determine child support payments for Brazilian model Luciana Morad who bore Jaggers child. 2000 – A New York judge awards The Ronettes $2.6 million in back earnings from Phil Spector. They will lose that money upon appeal by Spector. 2003 – Lionel Richie gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on his 54th birthday. 2004 – Paul McCartney plays his 3,000th career concert in St. Petersburg, Russia. 2006 – After 42 years on the air, Top Of The Pops is cancelled. 2008 – Surrey University awards Jimmy Page an honorary Doctorate in Music. 2008 – Jimmy Buffett announces that his Margaritaville Holdings has partnered with New York gambling company Coastal Marina to buy the Trump Marina Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for $316 million. 2011 – Former guitarist and singer for Mountain Leslie West has his lower right leg amputated due to a septic infection brought on by diabetes.
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