21 June

Pick a Day

21 JUNE

In Music History

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2011 Crossfade return after five years with We All Bleed - the band's first album after being dropped by Columbia Records in 2008.

2011 Bon Iver, the self-titled second album by Bon Iver, is released. The album reaches #2 in the US.

2010 Tam White, the Scottish singer and actor who was the first person to sing live on Top of the Pops in 1975 with a rendition of "What in the World's Come Over You," dies of a heart attack at age 67.

2007 After dating for 18 years, Tony Bennett marries teacher Susan Crow.

2001 Bluesman John Lee Hooker dies of natural causes at age 83.

1994 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony release the EP Creepin on ah Come Up, which eventually goes platinum four times.

1990 Exodus release their fourth studio album, Impact Is Imminent.

1990 Little Richard finally gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Says Richard: "Like everything I got, it took a long time to get."

1988 The Rascals reunite onstage for the first time in eighteen years.

1985 Lana Del Rey is born Elizabeth Grant in New York City.

1982 The first "Fête de la Musique," a music festival also known as "World Music Day," is launched in Paris. Unlike corporate festivals, this one is about street music, and free to the public. The festival returns every June 21 and spreads throughout the world in various forms.

1981 Walter Becker and Donald Fagen announce the split of Steely Dan and begin work on solo projects. They would re-form in 1993.

1981 Brandon Flowers (lead vocalist of The Killers) is born in Henderson, Nevada.

1980 Bert Kaempfert, composer of "Strangers in the Night" and "Moon Over Naples," dies after suffering a stroke at age 56.

1979 Angus MacLise (original drummer for The Velvet Underground) dies of hypoglycemia and tuberculosis at age 41.

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