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24 JUNE

In Music History

1973 Blues Project reunite for a concert in Central Park.

1971 Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller is released to theaters. Altman loves Leonard Cohen's work, and the soundtrack for this "anti-western" leans heavily on three songs from Songs of Leonard Cohen. On the merits of his film Brewster McCloud, which Cohen had seen and loved, Altman sold Cohen on the project and even convinced the "prince of pessimism" to create some new music for the film.

1970 Glenn Medeiros is born in Kauai, Hawaii.

1969 Written and produced by Sonny Bono, the romantic drama Chastity casts Cher, in her first solo film role, as a hippie runaway who tries to overcome her troubled past. The movie bombs and turns Cher off from acting in films for the next decade.More

1967 Jeff Cease, The Black Crowes guitarist on their debut album, is born in Nashville, Tennessee.

1966 The Richard Carpenter Trio (with sister Karen on drums) wins a "Battle Of The Bands" at the Hollywood Bowl.

1966 The Supremes record "Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart."

1965 John Lennon's second book of drawings and nonsense rhymes, A Spaniard In The Works, is published.

1961 Curt Smith (bass guitarist, vocalist for Tears for Fears) is born in Bath, Somerset, England.

1960 Siedah Garrett, co-writer of Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror" and his duet partner on "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," is born in Los Angeles.

1959 Andy McCluskey (vocalist, bass guitarist for OMD) is born in Heswall, Cheshire, England.

1957 Terence "Astro" Wilson (percussionist, trumpet player for UB40) is born in Birmingham, England.

1949 John Illsley (bass guitarist for Dire Straits) is born in Leicester, England.

1948 Patrick Moraz (keyboardist for Yes, The Moody Blues) is born in Morges, Switzerland.

1947 Mick Fleetwood (drummer for Fleetwood Mac) is born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, though he'll grow up in locales around the world due to his father's career as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot.