June 9 Born –
Cole Porter (1891) – composer/songwriter.
Buddy Feyne (aka Bernard Feinstein, 1912) – songwriter (“Tuxedo
Junction”).
Les Paul (aka Lester Polsfuss, 1915) – guitarist/songwriter/inventor.
Dick Rowe (1921) – Decca A&R man, "The man who turned down The
Beatles."
Johnny Ace (aka John Alexander, Jr., 1929) – R&B singer.
Jackie Wilson (1934) – R&B singer/songwriter.
Billy Hatton (1941) – bassist/singer for The Fourmost.
Jon Lord (1941) – organist for Deep Purple.
Stuart Edwards (1946) – lead guitarist for Edison Lighthouse.
Michael "Mick" Box (1947) – guitarist for Uriah Heep.
Francis Monkman (1949) – keyboardist for Curved Air.
George Bunnell (1949) – bassist for The Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Trevor Bolder (1950) – bassist for The Spiders From Mars and Uriah
Heep.
Pete Gill (1951) – drummer for Saxon and Motörhead.
Terry Uttley (1951) – bassist for Smokie.
Pete Byrne (1954) – vocalist for Naked Eyes and Climie Fisher.
Eddie Lundon (1962) – guitarist/vocalist for China Crisis.
Dean Dinning (1967) – bassist for Toad The Wet Sprocket.
Dean Felber (1967) – bassist for Hootie and The Blowfish.
Ed Simons (1970) – The Chemical Brothers.
Wesley Scantlin (1972) – guitarist/vocalist for Puddle Of Mud.
Matthew Bellamy (1978) – guitarist/vocalist for Muse.
June 9 R.I.P. –
Arthur Alexander (1993) – heart attack. Age 53. Country/soul singer/
songwriter ("Anna").
Frank Chacksfield (1995) – Parkinson's disease. Age 81. British
pianist/composer ("Ebb Tide").
June 9 album releases –
The Bonzo Dog Band – Tadpoles (1969) U.S.
King Crimson – Earthbound (1972)
The Jeff Beck Group – Jeff Beck Group (1972) UK
The J. Geils Band – Monkey Island (1977)
The Rolling Stones – Some Girls (1978)
The Moody Blues – Octave (1978)
Nick Lowe – Labour Of Lust (1979)
Frank Zappa – London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 (1983)
Genesis – Invisible Touch (1986)
Del Amitri – Change Everything (1992)
The Allman Brothers Band – An Evening With The Allman Brothers Band:
First Set (1992)
David Lee Roth – DLR Band (1998)
John Fogerty – Premonition (1998)
June 9 events –
1924 – Jelly Roll Morton records "Jelly Roll Blues" as a solo piano
piece in Chicago.
1934 – Edwin Armstrong successfully conducts the first field test of
his FM radio invention by simultaneously transmitting an organ recital
over FM and AM radio waves from the RCA antennae atop the Empire State
Building to the home of a friend in Long Island. The FM signal is
perfectly clear compared to the AM signal which comes through with
heavy static.
1958 – In an attempt to diffuse the growing controversy over his
marriage to his 13-year old cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis and his producer
Sam Phillips take out a full-page ad in Billboard magazine to explain
Lee's second divorce and third marriage to his cousin, to no avail.
1958 – Tommy Edwards records stereo versions of his songs "It's All In
The Game, "Love Is All We Need" and "Please Love Me Forever" at
Metropolitan Studios in New York.
1959 – Bobby Darin makes his Las Vegas debut at the Sahara Hotel,
opening for George Burns.
1962 – Tony Bennett makes his debut appearance at Carnegie Hall, and
records the show for album release.
1963 – The Beatles play their final date of the Roy Orbison tour at
King George's Hall in Blackburn, Lancashire.
1963 – Barbra Streisand, The McGuire Sisters and Guy Marks appear on
The Ed Sullivan Show.
1963 – Andy Williams signs in as a "mystery guest" on What's My Line?
1964 – Bob Dylan holds the only session for his album Another Side Of
Bob Dylan, recording 14 songs at Columbia Studios in New York City,
eleven of which are chosen for the final album. The three that were
rejected are "Denise Denise," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Mama, You Been
On My Mind."
1965 – The Everly Brothers, Jackie and Gayle, Billy Preston, The
Wellingtons, Piccola Pupa, The Blossoms, Bobby Sherman, Glen Campbell,
Jimmy Clanton, Clydie King, Bettye Lavette and Sandie Shaw all appear
on Shindig!
1966 – BBC music show Top Of The Pops airs The Beatles' promo video
for "Rain."
1967 – Pink Floyd plays two gigs - the first at the College of
Commerce in Hull, and the second at the Blarney Club in London.
1967 – The Monkees begin their first U.S. tour at the Hollywood Bowl,
with opening act Ike and Tina Turner.
1967 – John Denver marries Annie Martell in a Lutheran church in St.
Peter, Minnesota.
1969 – Moby Grape bassist, Bob Mosley, quits the group to join the
Marines.
1970 – Bob Dylan receives an honorary Doctorate of Music degree from
Princeton University.
1970 – Edwin Starr releases his single, "War" b/w "He Who Picks A
Rose" on the Gordy label.
1972 – Elvis Presley plays the first of four nights at Madison Square
Garden, recording each performance for album release.
1972 – John Hammond signs Bruce Springsteen to a contract with
Columbia Records.
1977 – Patti Boyd's divorce from George Harrison becomes final.
1989 – A McDonald's restaurant is firebombed in Milton Keynes,
England, and attention is immediately focused on The Pretenders'
Chrissie Hynde and her comments of the previous day that she once
firebombed a McDonald’s. Hynde is threatened with legal action.
1990 – Michael Jackson is admitted to a hospital with inflamed
cartilage around his rib cage.
1993 – The Tina Turner bio-movie, What's Love Got To Do With It, opens
in theaters.
1994 – TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes sets fire to her boyfriend's
(Atlanta Falcons football player Andre Rison) $2 million mansion in
the Country Club of the South neighborhood near Alpharetta, Georgia,
after an argument about shoes.
1997 – Carl Perkins undergoes surgery in a Memphis hospital to unblock
arteries in his neck.
1998 – The Ronettes appear in the Appellate Division of New York's
Supreme Court on the first day of their $12 million unpaid royalties
lawsuit against producer Phil Spector.
1998 – Oasis' Liam Gallagher and Simply Red's Mick Hucknall get in a
brawl at the Metropolitan Hotel in London.
2002 – British newspapers announce that Mick Jagger will be knighted
for his musical contributions.
2007 – George Michael becomes the first artist to perform at the new
Wembley Stadium in London, playing the first of two shows on his 25
Live Tour.
2009 – S Club 7 singer Rachel Stevens is robbed on the street outside
her home by three men who take various items of jewelry.
2011 – The 10-day Belgian festival, Lokerse Feesten, which prides
itself on its horse meat sausages and snails, goes vegetarian when
Morrissey appears at the event. In 2009, Morrissey walked off stage at
the festival, saying he could “smell burning flesh.”
2011 – The four-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival begins in
Manchester, Tennessee, celebrating its tenth anniversary. Artists
performing over the next four days include Buffalo Springfield,
Widespread Panic, Robert Plant and Band Of Joy, The Strokes, Primus,
Dr. John and The Meters, Gregg Allman, The Warren Haynes Band, Mavis
Staples, Wanda Jackson, Eminem, Mumford & Sons, Lil Wayne, The
Decemberists, and many others.
2012 – The two-day estate auction of Les Paul’s guitars and
memorabilia wraps up, earning $5 million for The Les Paul Foundation,
which benefits music education, innovation, and other music programs.
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