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1992 The soundtrack for Cameron Crowe's Singles is released. Even more than the movie itself, it helps bring the Seattle music scene across the entire US. Featuring songs from Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, and many others, it's instrumental in launching the '90s "grunge revolution."
1992 Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun, one of stoner metal's all-time classic albums, is released via Dali Records. It was produced by the band and Chris Goss.
1991 During a show at Brixton Academy in London, The Alarm frontman Mike Peters tells the crowd he's leaving the group, shocking his bandmates with the announcement. The Alarm disbands and doesn't re-form with the original members until a one-off reunion in 2004 for the VH1 show Bands Reunited.
1984 Fantasia Barrino is born in High Point, North Carolina. She wins the third season of American Idol and later stars in both Broadway and film adaptations of The Color Purple.
1984 The Huey Lewis & the News album Sports claims a week at #1 in the US. It's one of just five albums to top the chart in 1984, the others being Thriller, Purple Rain, Born in the U.S.A., and the Footloose soundtrack.
1979 Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu is born Matthew Paul Miller in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
1977 Bob Dylan and his wife of 11 years, Sara, finalize their divorce. She is given custody of their five children.
1976 Police raid Neil Diamond's house and find less than an ounce of marijuana. The arrest is struck from his record when he agrees to attend a drug aversion program.
1973 George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" dislodges Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love" from the #1 spot on the US singles charts.
1973 "It was a hot afternoon, the last day of June," Bobby Goldsboro sings in "Summer (The First Time)."
1971 San Francisco's Fillmore West concert hall closes.
1969 Tom Drummond (bass guitarist for Better Than Ezra) is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
1956 Philip Adrian Wright (first Director of Visuals, then keyboardist for The Human League) is born in Wakefield, England.
1953 Hal Lindes (guitarist for Dire Straits from 1980-1985) is born in Monterey, California.
1951 Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kiss Put Blood, Sweat And Tears (Or At Least Blood) Into Their Comic
1977Marvel Comics publishes a Kiss comic book with a vial of their blood mixed into the ink.
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2000 During a Pearl Jam concert at Denmark's Roskilde Festival, nine people are crushed to death as the crowd rushes the stage. Several people fall and can't get up, and in addition, crowdsurfers are falling into the open area. Pearl Jam stops the show and asks people to back up, but it is too late. Investigations conclude that the events were an accident, and many European venues ban crowdsurfing. The Pearl Jam song "Love Boat Captain" refers to the events with the line "Lost nine friends we'll never know... two years ago today."
1984 Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" reaches its chart peak of #2 on the Hot 100. The song spends four weeks at runner-up, held off the last three by Prince's "When Doves Cry." Springsteen never does reach #1 (except as a writer: Manfred Mann's Earth Band took "Blinded by the Light" to #1 in 1977), but the next six singles from his Born In The U.S.A. album all hit the Top 10.
1975 Cher marries Gregg Allman. Their union produces a son (Elijah Blue Allman) and an album, but ends for good in 1979.
1975 The Jackson 5 announce they will be leaving Motown Records for Epic Records and changing their name to The Jacksons because Motown owns The Jackson 5 name.
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