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.

Internet and the Future of Music

Fans have always and will aways find ways of getting their hands on free music: from mix tapes in the 80s to burning CDs in the 90s to downloading era of the 2000s. 

The Internet is not by any means a new phenomenon, yet it still has the music industry reeling. Napster is ancient history, but BitTorrent is en vogue and iTunes is here to stay.  Today's listeners have access to seemingly infinite amounts of music for free, and the Recording Industry doesn't like it one bit.