June 15 Born –
David Rose (1910) – American songwriter ("The Stripper").
Leon Payne (1917) – Country music singer/songwriter ("I Love You
Because").
Erroll Gardner (1921) – Jazz pianist/songwriter (“Misty”).
Nigel Pickering (1929) – guitarist for Spanky and Our Gang.
Waylon Jennings (1937) – Country music singer/songwriter, The
Crickets.
Harry Nilsson (1941) – singer/songwriter.
Mervyn "Muff" Winwood (1943) – bassist for The Spencer Davis Group.
Johnny Hallyday (aka Jean-Philippe Smet, 1943) – The "French" Elvis.
Neville "Noddy" Holder (1946) – vocalist/guitarist for Slade.
Janet Lennon (1946) – The Lennon Sisters.
Demis Roussos (1946) – Greek vocalist with Aphrodite's Child and
Vangelis.
Michael "Sam" Lutz (1949) – Brownsville Station.
Russell Hitchcock (1949) – Air Supply.
Meri Wilson (1949) – novelty song singer/songwriter (“Telephone Man”).
Steve Walsh (1951) – vocalist/keyboardist for Kansas.
Terri Gibbs (1954) – Country music artist.
Bernie Shaw (1956) – vocalist for Praying Mantis and Uriah Heep
David Hinds (1956) – guitarist for Steel Pulse.
Brad Gillis (1957) – guitarist for Rubicon, Night Ranger and Ozzy
Osbourne.
Scott Rockenfield (1963) – drummer for Queensrÿche.
Jason Bonham (1966) – drummer.
Michael Britt (1966) – guitarist for Lonestar.
Ice Cube (aka O'Shea Jackson, 1969) – rapper for N.W.A.
Chi Cheng (1970) – bassist for Deftones.
Dryden Mitchell (1976) – vocalist for Alien Ant Farm.
Billy Martin (1981) – guitarist/keyboardist for Good Charlotte.June 15 R.I.P. – John "Wes" Montgomery (1968) – heart attack. Age 45. Jazz guitarist. Meredith Willson (1984) – heart failure. Age 82. Broadway composer (The Music Man). Manos Hatzidakis (1994) – heart disease/diabetes. Age 68. Greek composer (“Paper Moon”). Ella Fitzgerald (1996) – diabetes. Age 79. Jazz singer. Jimmy Arnold (2004) – lung cancer. Age 72. The Four Lads. June 15 album releases – The Beatles – Yesterday And Today (1966) U.S. (butcher cover) The Temptations – Getting' Ready (1966) Jeremy Dormouse – Toad (1968) Jackie DeShannon – Songs (1971) Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Messin' (1973) John Denver – Back Home Again (1974) Bob Dylan – Street Legal (1978) America – Silent Letter (1979) Dire Straits – Communiqué (1979) Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981) The Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra (1982) John Waite – No Brakes (1984) Nirvana – Bleach (1989) Santana – Spirits Dancing In The Flesh (1990) The Allman Brothers Band – Seven Turns (1990) Neil Young – Unplugged (1993) Pansy Division – Deflowered (1994) Ringo Starr – Vertical Man (1998) Santana – Supernatural (1999) Dokken – Erase The Slate (1999) Sarah McLachlan – Mirrorball (1999) Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Mojo (2010) Chris Isaak – Live At The Fillmore (2010) June 15 events – 1957 – Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up" hits the UK charts on advance sales alone. 1958 – The Platters perform "Twilight Time" on The Ed Sullivan Show, which is broadcast in conjunction with the Brussels World’s Fair. 1958 – The UK’s first teenage all-music television show, Oh Boy! debuts in the Midlands for a trial run of two episodes, with guest Marty Wilde. The show turns out to be a hit and is given a national spot on ITV on Saturday nights beginning in September. 1961 – A week after its premiere in Memphis, Elvis Presley’s movie Wild In The Country opens in theaters nationwide. 1963 – Jan and Dean release their single, “Surf City” b/w “She’s My Summer Girl.” 1964 – At 8am, and without saying goodbye to the band, drummer Jimmie Nicol leaves the Southern Cross Hotel on Bourke Street in Melbourne accompanied by Brian Epstein, and is driven to the airport where he is given a final agreed fee of £500, as well as a gold watch with the engraving, "To Jimmy, with appreciation and gratitude - Brian Epstein and The Beatles." In the evening, with Ringo reunited with the group, The Beatles play two shows at the Festival Hall in Melbourne. 1964 – Peter and Gordon arrive in the U.S. for their first tour and concert at the New York World's Fair. 1965 – Bob Dylan begins recording "Like A Rolling Stone" at Columbia Studios in New York City. 1965 – The Rolling Stones begin a short, 8-date European tour, performing two shows at the Odeon Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, with opening act The Hollies. 1966 – Capitol Records releases The Beatles album Yesterday And Today, featuring a bizarre cover by photographer Robert Whitaker, with the group dressed in butcher smocks and surrounded by decapitated baby dolls and raw meat. The cover generates instant complaints and controversy among record store owners, and Capitol withdraws the release the following day. 1967 – Peter Green quits John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to form his own band. 1969 – Hee Haw debuts on CBS as a summer replacement series for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and will stay on the air for 25 years. 1969 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, with opening acts Blodwyn Pig and The Liverpool Scene. 1969 – The Doors appear at the Minneapolis Auditorium, with opening act The Staples Singers. 1970 – Jimi Hendrix opens his Electric Ladyland Studios in Greenwich Village in New York City. 1973 – Jim Croce hosts The Midnight Special, with guests Little Anthony and The Imperials, Savoy Brown, Barbara Fairchild, Shawn Phillips, Wishbone Ash and Bobby Womack. 1974 – Elvis Presley begins an 18-date U.S. tour, playing the first of two nights at the Tarrant County Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, performing two shows both nights. 1974 – Wings announce that Geoff Britton will be replacing Denny Seiwell on drums. 1975 – Elvis Presley checks into the Mid-South Hospital in Memphis for "an extensive eye examination," and has plastic surgery on his eyes to remove wrinkles. 1976 – The Sex Pistols record their first demos at Majestic Studios in Clapham, London. In the evening, the group plays a gig at the 100 Club. 1977 – The Marilyn McCoo And Billy Davis Show premieres on CBS. 1977 – Dolly Parton begins recording "Here You Come Again" in Los Angeles. 1978 – Bob Dylan begins the European leg of his world tour, performing the first of six nights at Earls Court in London. 1979 – The Who's movie, The Kids Are Alright, opens in theaters in the U.S. 1979 – Bob Welch hosts The Midnight Special, with Thelma Houston, Fast Fontaine, Foxy, and Olivia Newton-John. 1985 – The charity single, "You'll Never Walk Alone," by the UK mega- group The Crowd - featuring Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, Gerry Marsden, Rick Wakeman, Phil Lynott, Rolf Harris and others - reaches #1 in the UK. 1986 – The final Conspiracy of Hope concert, featuring U2, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Joan Baez and The Neville Brothers, plays its final show at Giants Stadium in New York. Unlike the other five concerts, this is an all-day event, and also features performances by Third World, The Hooters, Peter Paul & Mary, Little Steven with Bob Geldof, Stanley Jordan, Joan Armatrading, Jackson Browne, Rubén Blades with Fela and Carlos Santana, Nona Hendryx, Yoko Ono, Howard Jones, Miles Davis, and Joni Mitchell. 1988 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the first of two nights at Stadio Flamino in Rome, Italy, on their Tunnel Of Love Express Tour. While in Rome, a journalist touring with the band takes a picture of Springsteen in his underwear sharing an intimate moment with back-up singer Patti Scialfa. Bruce’s then-wife, actress Julianne Phillips, is not amused when the photo is published. 1993 – Paul McCartney's concert in Charlotte, North Carolina, is broadcast live on FOX-TV as "Paul McCartney Live In The New World." 1993 – Ray Charles makes music history when his album My World hits the Billboard 200, marking the sixth decade in which he has had an album on the charts. 1998 – The Spice Girls begin the U.S. leg of their Spiceworld Tour at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida, performing for the first time without Geri Halliwell who left the group on May 30. 2000 – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Flesh-N-Bone (aka Stanley Howse) is found guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom of assault with a semiautomatic firearm for threatening a friend with an AK-47, also proving to be a violation of his parole. He will be sentenced to 11 years in state prison. 2000 – Tennessee governor Don Sundquist declares it "Lynn Anderson Day" throughout the state. 2002 – A rare autographed copy of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album sells at an auction in the UK for $57,800. 2004 – Glen Campbell is sentenced to 10 days in jail in Phoenix, Arizona, for extreme drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident on November 24, 2003. 2005 – A Mississippi court awards Jerry Lee Lewis' sixth wife, Kerrie Lynn McCarver Lewis, a divorce settlement totaling $400,000. 2008 – In a national campaign set up by the Arts Council, Liverpool is voted England's most musical city. 2010 – Atlanta Superior Court Judge Kimberly Adams dismisses charges against 65-year old Neal Horsley and releases him from jail for making terrorist threats against Elton John in an Internet website rant entitled "Why Elton John Must Die," because of an Elton John interview in Parade magazine where he stated that Jesus Christ might have been gay. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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