This week in Music History: June 13-19

June 13
1975 - John Lennon made his last TV appearance to sing "Imagine."
1989 - Jerry Lee Lewis got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1995 - Alanis Morissette released the album "Jagged Little Pill"

June 14
1953 - Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, TN  (Right: senior class picture!)
1961 - "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist, born in Bexley, London
1965 - Paul McCartney recorded "Yesterday."
1965 - Bob Dylan recorded "Like a Rolling Stone"
1971 - In London, the 1st Hard Rock Cafe opened.
1994 - Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River) died at age 70.
1995 - Michael Jackson appeared on TV with his wife Lisa Marie Presley in a live interview with Diane Sawyer.

June 15
1843 - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, composer, conductor, pianist, born in Bergen, Norway
1956 - John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer, died at 78
1998 - The Spice Girls began their 1st North American tour in Miami.
2004 - The iTunes Music Store was launched in France, Germany and the UK.

June 16
1858 - Composer Eugene Ysaye born Liège, Belgium
1978 - The film adaptation of "Grease" premiered in New York City.
1982 - James Honeyman Scott (Pretenders) died of drug overdose at the age of 25.
1995 - Pearl Jam began a tour without using Ticketmaster. They chose to use a mail order ticket service.
1997 - The Radiohead album "OK Computer" released.
1999 - Phil Collins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

June 17
1818 - Composer Charles Francois Gounod born in Paris.
1882 - Composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky born in Oranienbaum, Russia.
1928 - James Brown born in Pulaski TN
1946 - Barry Manilow born in Brooklyn, NY
1980 - Led Zeppelin began their last tour.
1995 - Rod Stewart set an attendance record for Wembley Stadium with a concert crowd of 90,000.

June 18
1723 - Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer, born in Naples
1821 - Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischutz" was first performed in Berlin.
1942 - Paul McCartney born in Liverpool
1948 - Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing (LP) phonograph record, the 33 1/3, in NYC.
1987 - Bruce Springsteen officially separated from wife Julianne Phillips.

June 19
1988 - Over 3,000 East Germans gathered at the Berlin Wall to hear Michael Jackson. Jackson was performing a concert on the other side of the wall in West Berlin.
2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 5 billion songs sold.