10 JUNE
In Music History
1967 Stevie Wonder releases "I Was Made To Love Her."
1967 Outdoor rock: California's Magic Mountain Music Festival, considered the first rock music festival, features Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Byrds - the crowd of 15,000 is dwarfed by the 200,000 at the Monterey Pop Festival the following weekend.
1966 Steve Marriott of Small Faces collapses while performing on the British show Ready Steady Go!, forcing the band to cancel a week of shows.
1966 Janis Joplin makes her singing debut with Big Brother & the Holding Company at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom.
1965 Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago is born in Manila, Philippines.
1964 Elvis Presley records "Puppet On A String," "The Meanest Girl In Town," and "Girl Happy."
1964 Jimmy Chamberlin (drummer for The Smashing Pumpkins) is born in Joliet, Illinois.
1961 Identical twins Kim and Kelley Deal are born in Dayton, Ohio. Together, they form The Breeders; Kim is also the bass player in the Pixies.
1961 Maxi Priest is born Max Elliott in Lewisham, London, England. His song "Close To You" goes to #1 in America in 1990.
1958 Elvis Presley records "I Need Your Love Tonight," "A Big Hunk O' Love," "Ain't That Loving You, Baby?," and "A Fool Such As I."
1950 The Ames Brothers' "Sentimental Me" hits #1.
1944 Rick Price (bassist for The Move, Wizzard) is born in Birmingham, England.
1941 Janet Vogel (soprano singer of The Skyliners) is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1941 Shirley Owens Alston of The Shirelles is born in Henderson, North Carolina.
1934 English composer Frederick Delius dies at age 72.
The Sopranos Comes Full Stop With Journey Song
2007In the last scene of the HBO series The Sopranos, "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey plays on the jukebox while Tony Soprano sits at a diner. It cuts to black on the line, "Don't Stop."
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2004 Ray Charles dies at age 73 of liver disease.More
2003 The Luther Vandross album Dance With My Father is released two months after the singer suffered a debilitating stroke. The album goes to #1 in America and the title track wins the Grammy Award for Song of the Year, but Vandross dies on July 1, 2005.
2000 Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, featuring "Stan" and "The Real Slim Shady," begins an eight-week run at #1 in the US.
1991 In his first public appearance since being released from prison in February, James Brown stars in the pay-per-view concert special James Brown: Living in America. For $19.95, viewers can see Brown perform at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles along with MC Hammer, Bell Biv DeVoe, C+C Music Factory, Kool Moe Dee and En Vogue.
1990 Members of the rap group 2 Live Crew are arrested on charges of public obscenity after performing songs from their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be in a Hollywood, Florida, nightclub. A few days earlier, a federal court ruled the album obscene, and therefore performing it is against the law. It gets even more ridiculous when a cover band performs the songs for the purpose of getting arrested, which they do. Eventually, the ruling is overturned and charges against the rappers (and cover band) are dropped.
1976 Paul McCartney and Wings set a new indoor concert attendance record of 67,100 at the newly-opened Kingdome in Seattle.
1922 Judy Garland is born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. A few years later, her family moves to California and she becomes a child star, playing Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz when she's 17.
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