June 7 Born –
Dean Martin (aka Dino Crocetti, 1917) – singer.
Tal Farlow (1921) – Jazz guitarist.
Wynn Stewart (1934) – Country music artist ("Sing A Sad Song").
Tom Jones (aka Thomas Woodward, 1940) – Welsh singer.
Clarence White (aka Clarence LeBlanc, 1944) – guitarist for The Byrds.
Billy Butler (1945) – Archie Bell and The Drells.
Johnny Clegg (1953) – South African musician.
Joey Scarbury (1955) – one-hit wonder ("Believe It Or Not - Theme From
The Greatest American Hero").
Patrick "Paddy" McAloon (1957) – singer/songwriter for Prefab Sprout.
Prince Rogers Nelson (1958) – singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/
arranger/producer.
Eric Kretz (1966) – drummer for Stone Temple Pilots and Talk Show.
Dave Navarro (1967) – guitarist for Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili
Peppers.
June 7 R.I.P. –
Bobby Hackett (1976) – Age 61. Trumpeter/cornetist with Glenn Miller
and Benny Goodman.
Wally Gold (1998) – Age 70. Singer/songwriter (“It’s My Party,” "It's
Now Or Never").
Jerry Capehart (1998) – Age 69. Songwriter ("Summertime Blues").
Hugh Hopper (2009) – leukemia. Age 64. Bassist for Soft Machine.
Kenny Rankin (2009) – lung cancer. Age 69. Singer/songwriter
("Peaceful").
Stuart Cable (2010) – aspiration of vomit. Age 40. Stereophonics.
Bob Welch (2012) – suicide. Age 66. Fleetwood Mac and Paris.
June 7 album releases –
Carlos Santana – Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! (1972)
The Beatles – Rock 'N' Roll Music (1976)
Lou Rawls – All Things In Time (1976)
Stray Cats – Built For Speed (1982) U.S.
Tears For Fears – Elemental (1993)
Stone Temple Pilots – Purple (1994)
Boston – Walk On (1994)
Paul Weller – Stanley Road (1995)
Robert Miles – Dreamland (1996)
Therion – Crowning Of Atlantis (1999)
Paul Butterfield’s Better Days – Live At Winterland Ballroom (1999)
Ringo Starr – Choose Love (2005) U.S.
June 7 events –
1959 – Johnny Horton appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing "The
Battle Of New Orleans." Other musical guests include Al Martino, and
The Barry Sisters.
1963 – The Rolling Stones release their first single, "Come On" b/w "I
Want To Be Loved."
1964 – Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas make their U.S. television
debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing ”Pride,” "Little Children"
and "Bad To Me." Other musical guests include Robert Horton, and
Tessie O’Shea.
1964 – On the third night of their first U.S. tour, The Rolling Stones
are booed off the stage in San Antonio, Texas, and the opening act,
performing monkeys, are brought back to finish the show.
1964 – On their first and only world tour, The Beatles travel from
Amsterdam to Hong Kong with several refueling stops on the way. The
trip takes more than 24 hours.
1967 – The Beatles announce that they have agreed to the making of an
animated film based on their song “Yellow Submarine.”
1967 – Three members of Moby Grape are arrested for contributing to
the delinquency of minors when they are caught in a parked car with
under-age girls.
1968 – Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead play
the first of three nights at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco.
1968 – Bill Bruford plays his first date with Jon Anderson, Chris
Squire and Peter Banks as Yes at Rachel MacMillan’s College in
Deptford, near London.
1968 – Jerry Jeff Walker records his composition, “Mr. Bojangles,” at
Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
1969 – Blind Faith plays their only concert at a free show in Hyde
Park in London.
1969 – Keith Richards and girlfriend Anita Pallenberg are involved in
a car crash. Richards is a bit banged up, but Pallenberg suffers a
broken collar bone.
1969 – Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell appear on the debut of The Johnny
Cash Show, broadcast from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, on ABC-
TV.
1969 – Tommy James and The Shondells release their single, “Crystal
Blue Persuasion” b/w “I’m Alive” on Roulette Records.
1970 – The Who perform Tommy in its entirety at the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York City.
1972 – The play Grease moves from off-Broadway’s Eden Theatre (and
it’s four-month run there) to the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway,
where it will run until November before finally moving to the Royale
Theatre, where it will stay for eight years.
1977 – Led Zeppelin plays the first of six sold-out shows at Madison
Square Garden in New York City.
1977 – Singer Anita Bryant’s anti-gay crusade is successful in Dade
County, Florida, when voting results repeal laws protecting gays from
job and housing discrimination.
1979 – Chuck Berry pleads guilty to tax evasion in court, and is
sentenced to four months in jail.
1980 – Bob Marley and The Wailers, The Average White Band, Joe Jackson
and The Q-Tips play at the '80 Garden Party at the Crystal Palace
Concert Bowl in London.
1982 – Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion is opened to the public.
1983 – Jerry Lee Lewis marries his fifth wife, Shawn Stephens. She
will be dead in three months.
1986 – Air Supply's Graham Russell marries actress Jodi Varble. They
are still married.
1987 – David Bowie plays a show in front of the Reichstag in West
Germany with the speakers facing the Berlin Wall for the thousands of
young people on the other side listening.
1988 – At a Bob Dylan concert at the Concord Pavilion in California,
Neil Young joins the band onstage for the majority of the show as a
backing musician.
1990 – The Black Crowes make their UK stage debut at the Marquee Club
in London.
1991 – Jimmy Osmond marries Michelle Larson in Salt Lake City. They
have five kids and are still married.
1991 – Guns ‘N Roses plays the first of two nights at the CNE
Grandstand in Toronto, Canada, on their Use Your Illusion Tour, with
opening act Skid Row.
1991 – Alan Jackson joins the Grand Ole Opry.
1993 – Chuck Berry, Sam Phillips, Pete Townshend and Billy Joel are
just a few of the rock luminaries present at the ground-breaking
ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
1993 – On his 35th birthday, Prince changes his name to an
unpronounceable androgynous symbol in response to a legal battle with
Warner Brothers Records, who trademarked his “Prince” name.
1995 – Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is admitted to a hospital
when his ear begins leaking blood, the cause of which is determined to
be his arm movements while playing guitar.
1996 – Queen Elizabeth II, along with Paul McCartney and partner Mark
Featherstone-Witty, open the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
1997 – This year’s Tibet Freedom Concert begins at Downing Stadium on
Randall’s Island in New York. Musical guests over the two-day event
include Noel Gallagher, Foo Fighters, U2, Sonic Youth, Alanis
Morissette, Patti Smith, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Radiohead,
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie
Boys, Rancid, Björk, Pavement, Blur, Michael Stipe and Mike Mills, Taj
Mahal and The Phantom Blues Band, De La Soul, The Mighty Mighty
Bosstones, Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready, Porno For Pyros and others.
1999 – SFX Entertainment chairman Robert Sillerman and Rod Stewart
ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, after which
Stewart throws soccer balls onto the trading floor.
2000 – Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, hosts the week-
long Prince: A Celebration, to celebrate the singer regaining the
rights to his name after a seven-year legal battle with Warner
Brothers.
2001 – Oasis, The Black Crowes and Spacehog play the first of three
nights at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on their Tour Of
Brotherly Love tour.
2002 – Virgin Records drops former Spice Girl Victoria “Posh Spice”
Beckham from their roster when her album, which cost $5 million to
make, only sells 50,000 copies.
2007 – A portion of 35th Avenue in Rancho Mirage, California, is re-
named Dean Martin Drive, on what would have been the singer's 90th
birthday.
2008 – Bo Diddley is buried in Gainesville, Florida.
2010 – Joe Walsh is granted a restraining order against elderly
neighbor Nassar Adhoot, after Adhoot trespassed and attacked Walsh’s
personal assistant in May with a piece of wood while shouting he was
going to shoot and kill Walsh. Adhoot is also ordered to pay $1,500 in
legal fees.
2010 – Rickey Minor makes his debut as the new bandleader on The
Tonight Show.
2012 – The Internal Revenue Service charges Fugees singer Lauryn Hill
with failure to file income taxes on $1.6 million in wages in 2005,
2006 and 2007.
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