This Date In Music History-June23

Birthdays:

Aimee Anne Duffy - (Duffy) Welsh singer-songwriter (1984)

James MacPherson - Breeders (1966)

Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs - Oasis (1965) Quit the band in Aug 1999.

Rosetta Hightower - The Orlons (1944)

Steve Shelley - Sonic Youth (1962)

Randy Jackson - American musician and record producer, judge on American Idol (1956)

Robert Hunter - lyricist for the Grateful Dead (1941)


They Are Missed:

Born in 1940, Adam Faith, singer and actor. Faith died on March 8, 2003.

Also born on this day in 1940, Stuart Sutcliffe, original bassist of The Beatles for eighteen months (January 1960 - June 1961). Died of a brain hemorrhage on April 10, 1962 (age) 22.

Born today in 1937, Niki Sullivan, guitarist, singer, one of the three original members of Buddy Holly's backing group, The Crickets. He co-wrote a number of his hit songs and sang back-up vocals on 27 of the 32 songs Buddy recorded over his brief career. Sullivan died suddenly of a heart attack on April 6, 2004 (age 66).

Born on this day in 1929, June Carter Cash, country singer, wife of Johnny Cash. Died May 15, 2003 (age 73).


History:

In 1814, Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax was born. He was the inventor of the saxophone.

Ray Charles started a 14-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1962 with “Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music.”

In 2007, 1,800 guitarists in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, set a world record for a mass guitar performance of Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water." This effort breaks the mark set just three weeks earlier in Kansas City, KS, when over 1,600 played the riff.



In 1965, Motown Records released "Tracks Of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. The same song will be a hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1976.

In 1977, a very inebriated Keith Moon joined Led Zeppelin onstage in Los Angeles. He belts seven shades of sh*t out of a tympani on "Moby Dick" and "Rock and Roll," then proceeded to call John Bonham the best living rock drummer in the world today.

The Knack released "My Sharona” in 1979.

The #1 album in the US in 1979 was Supertramp's "Breakfast in America."

In 1975, during his “Welcome To My Nightmare” tour in Vancouver, Canada, Alice Cooper fell from the stage and broke six ribs.

George Harrison started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1973 with “Living In The Material World.”

Pink Floyd made their US Top Forty debut in 1973 with "Money." It reached #13.

In 1990, Buddy Holly’s Gibson acoustic guitar sold for $237,419 in a Sotheby's auction. The guitar was in a tooled leather case made by Holly himself.

13-year-old Keith Sorrentino filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Madonna in 1990, claiming he suffered nightmares and bed-wetting problems after an incident outside Madonna’s home when she allegedly flung him to the ground. Temper, temper Midge.

Nelly started a seven week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 2002 with “Hot In Here.”

In London in 2003, Eminem gave a $450,000 necklace to a fan in the front row of a concert. He had announced while from the stage that "I'm going to give this to the sexiest woman I see.

In 1976, Paul McCartney & Wings wrapped up their tour at Inglewood, Calif.'s Forum. Sir Paul wouldn't tour the US for another 13 years.

In 1963, Del Shannon charts with "From Me To You, which becomes the first Lennon & McCartney composition to make the Billboard Hot 100.

B.W. Stevenson recorded "My Maria" in 1973.

Elvis Presley cuts "If I Can Dream" in 1968

In 1995, CBS News anchor Dan Rather joins R.E.M. onstage at Madison Square Garden during a soundcheck to perform "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" which referred to a bizarre incident years before when Rather was beaten up by thugs demanding the answer to the question. The performance was shown on David Letterman's "The Late Show."

In 2009, Chris Brown pleaded guilty to one count of assault on his former girlfriend, Rihanna. The 19 year-old R&B singer was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to do six months community service. Brown had faced charges of assaulting Rihanna, 21, during a row in February. The last-minute plea deal came before a hearing at a Los Angeles court at which Rihanna was due to give evidence. The Los Angeles County Superior Court judge also ordered Brown and Rihanna to stay at least 50 yards from each other, except at entertainment industry events when the distance is reduced to 10 yards. Good, never hit a woman.....

Duran Duran started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1984 with “The Reflex,” the group's first US #1, also a UK #1.