June 16 Born –
Ben Raleigh (1913) – songwriter ("Laughing On The Outside (Crying On
The Inside)”).
David "Little Caesar" Johnson (1934) – Little Caesar and The Romans.
Billy "Crash" Craddock (1939) – Country/rockabilly singer.
Lamont Dozier (1941) – songwriter/producer for Motown.
Edward "Eddie" Levert (1942) – The O'Jays.
John Rostill (1942) – bassist for The Shadows.
Iain Matthews (1946) – songwriter/guitarist for Fairport Convention.
Peppy Castro (aka Emil Thielheim, 1949) – guitarist for The Blues
Magoos.
James Smith (1950) – The Stylistics.
Gino Vanelli (1952) – singer/songwriter.
Ian Mosley (1953) – drummer for Marillion.
Malcom Mortimer (1953) – drummer for Gentle Giant.
Garry Roberts (1954) – guitarist for The Boomtown Rats.
Patrick Waite (1968) – Reggae musician, Musical Youth.
Tupac Shakur (1971) – rapper/songwriter.June 16 R.I.P. – Lonnie Johnson (1970) – hit by car, stroke. Age 71. Blues/Jazz guitarist. Don Robey (1975) – heart attack. Age 71. Founder of Peacock Records. Bob Nolan (1980) – heart attack. Age 72. Canadian singer/songwriter, Sons Of The Pioneers. Warren Ryanes (1982) – Age 45. The Monotones. James Honeyman-Scott (1982) – heart failure from cocaine. Age 25. The Pretenders. Douglas "Buzz" Shearman (1983) – motorcycle accident. Age 33. Vocalist for Moxy. Kristen Pfaff (1994) – acute opiate intoxication. Age 27. Bassist for Hole. John Wolters (1997) – liver cancer. Age 52. Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show. Screaming Lord Sutch (1999) – suicide. Age 58. British musician. June 16 album releases – Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica (1969) Three Dog Night – Golden Biscuits (1971) Elvis Presley – Love Letters From Elvis (1971) Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1972) Ringo Starr – Bad Boy (1978) U.S. Carly Simon – Come Upstairs (1980) The Carpenters – Made In America (1981) Ringo Starr – Old Wave (1983) The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (1986) Big Audio Dynamite II – The Globe (1991) Type O Negative – Slow, Deep And Hard (1991) Lindsey Buckingham – Out Of The Cradle (1992) Michael Jackson – HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book I (1995) Aaron Carter – Aaron Carter (1998) U.S. Brian Wilson – Imagination (1998) Little Feat – Under The Radar (1998) Shpongle – Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost (2005) George Harrison – Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison (2009) June 16 events – 1956 – Bill Doggett records "Honky Tonk,” Parts 1 and 2, for King Records at their studios in New York. 1956 – The Giant Rock ‘N’ Roll Revue plays the first of two days at the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, Ohio, featuring Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, Clyde McPhatter, The Diamonds, Don Cherry, Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Burnette and The Rock ‘N’ Roll Trio, Billy Wells and The Crescents, The Jodimars, Joe Howard and His Band, Sam “The Man” Taylor, and The 4 Tunes. Both shows are emceed by radio station WERE’s Bill Randle. 1957 – Johnny Mathis records both songs for his single, “Chances Are” and “The Twelfth Of Never,” at Columbia Studios in New York City. In the evening, Mathis appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “It’s Not For Me To Say.” Other musical guests on the show include Rusty Draper, John Raitt, Polly Bergen and Don Rondo. 1958 – Doris Day releases her single, “Everybody Loves A Lover” b/w “Instant Love.” 1959 – Buck Owens records both songs for his single, “Tired Of Livin’” and “Under Your Spell Again” at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. 1962 – The Isley Brothers release their single, "Twist And Shout" b/w "Spanish Twist" on the Wand label. 1962 – Gary U.S. Bonds makes his U.S. television debut, lip-synching to "Quarter To Three" on American Bandstand. 1962 – David (Bowie) Jones makes his stage debut with his band The Konrads at Bromley Technical School in Kent. 1964 – In the middle of their first U.S. tour, The Rolling Stones fly back to England to honor a gig made a year earlier at Magdalen College in Oxford. The Falling Leaves open the show. 1965 – The Everly Brothers, Gerry and The Pacemakers, PJ Proby, Dick and Dee Dee, The Wellingtons, Billy Preston, Gary Brento Weis, Petula Clark, Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers, The Bitter End Singers, and Gary Lewis and The Playboys all appear on Shindig! 1966 – Cliff Richard appears with evangelist Billy Graham at a rally at Earls Court in London, and discusses his discovery of the Christian faith. 1966 – John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - featuring Eric Clapton on guitar - appears at the Marquee Club in London. 1966 – The Beatles make their first and only live appearance on Top Of The Pops, lip-synching to "Paperback Writer" and "Rain." 1967 – The movie Hell On Wheels, starring Marty Robbins, premieres in Nashville. 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Today's lineup includes The Association, Lou Rawls, Johnny Rivers, Eric Burdon and The Animals and Simon and Garfunkel. 1967 – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Soft Machine play at the Liverpool Love Festival. 1970 – The organizers of the Woodstock festival announce that the event lost more than $1.2 million. 1972 – The New York Jazz Museum opens in midtown Manhattan. 1972 – Elvis Presley performs one show at Chicago Stadium. Elvis will play two more shows at the Stadium the next day. 1974 – Tangerine Dream makes their UK stage debut at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London. 1975 – John Lennon sues U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst for harassment during his deportation proceedings. 1976 – The Jacksons television show debuts on CBS, and will run for nine months. 1978 – The movie adaptation of the Broadway hit, Grease, premieres in theaters in the U.S. 1978 – Kenny Rogers records “The Gambler” at Jack Clement Recording Studios in Nashville. 1980 – The Blues Brothers movie premieres in Chicago. 1982 – Singer for .38 Special Donnie Van Zant is arrested on stage during a show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for drinking in public. 1987 – Jerry Garcia gives his permission for Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream to name a flavor after him. 1988 – Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil marries mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell. They stay married for five years. 1989 – Cliff Richard celebrates 30 years in show business with a concert at Wembley in front of 72,000. Other performers include Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Kalin Twins, and The Searchers. 1989 – Smokey Robinson launches his own brand of perfume for women called Smoke. 1989 – The first of the three-day Glastonbury Festival begins in Somerset. The event features performances by Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Throwing Muses, Pixies, Hot House Flowers, Suzanne Vega, The Proclaimers, Lucinda Williams, Youssou N’Dour and many others. 1990 – The Rolling Stones song "Paint It Black" hits the top of the charts in the Netherlands after it is released as a single 25 years after its initial release. 1993 – The U.S. Postal Service unveils their Legends of American Music stamps series, featuring Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Bill Haley, Clyde McPhatter, Ritchie Valens and Dinah Washington. 1994 – Oasis plays their first show outside of the UK at the Erotika Club in Paris, France. 1996 – The second day of the Tibetan Freedom Concerts is held at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Artists appearing over the two-day event include Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Pavement, Cibo Matto, Biz Markie, Richie Havens, John Lee Hooker, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, Sonic Youth, Beck, Foo Fighters, Björk, De La Soul, Fugees, Buddy Guy, The Skatalites, Yoko Ono and No Doubt. 1997 – Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor cancels her upcoming concert in Jerusalem after receiving death threats. 1999 – Cher begins her 121-date Do You Believe? Tour at the America West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. 1999 – Phil Collins receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2000 – On the first night of his Up In Smoke Tour, Snoop Dogg's tour bus is stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego when marijuana is smelled coming from the bus. One person is arrested. 2001 – Four-year old Daniel Karven-Veres drowns in the swimming pool of Mötley Crüe's drummer Tommy Lee, at a birthday party for Lee's son, Brandon. The child’s parents will sue Lee for negligence, but the drummer will be cleared of all wrong-doing by a jury in April 2003. 2002 – A remixed version of Elvis Presley's 1967 song "A Little Less Conversation" goes to #1 in the UK. 2004 – The surviving members of The New York Dolls reunite for a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London. 2004 – Scotland's University of St. Andrews announces that Bob Dylan will receive an honorary doctorate degree in music at their graduation ceremonies on June 23. 2007 – Rod Stewart (62) marries his third wife, Penny Lancaster (36), at La Cervara near Portofino, Italy. 2008 – Coldplay kicks off their 161-date Viva la Vida World Tour at the Brixton Academy in London. 2012 – An outdoor concert by Radiohead at Downsview Park in Toronto, Canada, is canceled after the entire stage collapses. 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