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.
May 23
1910 - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], bandleader, born in NYC
1969 - The Who release rock opera "Tommy
"
1970 - The Grateful Dead played its first British concert at the Hollywood Rock Festival. It was also their first show outside of the U.S.
1974 - Jewel [Kilcher], folk/rock vocalist, born in Alaska
1979 - "The Kids Are Alright
," Jeff Stein's documentary compilation of film clips detailing the history of the Who, debuted in New York.
1994 - Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
May 24
1944 - Patti LaBelle, [Holt], born in Philadelphia
1974 - Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies of cancer at 75
1986 - Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, and Peter Tork reunited as The Monkees.
1998 - Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell proclaimed May 24th "Van Halen Day" in Philadelphia.
2000 - Chuck D testified to the U.S. Congress about the benefits of Napster and online music distribution.
May 25
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera "HMS Pinafore
," premieres in London
1934 - Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer, dies at 59
1969 - Led Zeppelin and The Who appeared together in concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion.
1973 - Carole King performed in New York's Central Park to an audience of 100,000.
1996 - Bradley Nowell (Sublime) was found dead in his San Francisco motel room of a drug overdose at the age of 26.
1997 - Bob Dylan was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital with chest pains. As a result, his European tour was canceled.
