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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.