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In Music History
1962 The Beatles record at Abbey Road for the first time, demoing three songs they wrote themselves: "Love Me Do," "Ask Me Why" and "P.S. I Love You."
1960 The RIAA gives Bing Crosby a special platinum record to signify career sales of 200 million records, many of them "White Christmas."
1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only The Lonely."
1960 Singer Tony Williams leaves The Platters to embark upon a solo career.
1960 Steve Vai is born in Carle Place, a town located in Long Island, New York.
1951 Dwight Twilley, known for the hits "I'm On Fire" (1975) and "Girls" (1984), is born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1944 Jazz pianist Monty Alexander is born in Kingston, Jamaica.
1944 Electronic musician Edgar Froese (founder of Tangerine Dream) is born in Tilsit, East Prussia. After World War II, he would settle in West Berlin with his mother and surviving family members (his father and other relatives having been killed by Nazis).
1944 Peter Albin (bassist for Big Brother & the Holding Company) is born in San Francisco, California.
1943 Country singer Joe Stampley, known for the '70s chart-toppers "Roll On Big Mama" and "All These Things," is born in Springhill, Webster Parish, Louisiana.
1939 Gary U.S. Bonds is born Gary Anderson in Jacksonville, Florida. His stage name, originally just "U.S. Bonds," comes from posters advertising United States savings bonds. His big hit comes in 1961 with the #1 "Quarter To Three."
1936 Levi Stubbs (lead vocalist for The Four Tops) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
2 Live Crew Declared Legally Obscene
1990The 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be becomes the first album declared legally obscene when Federal District Judge Jose Gonzalez rules that the album violates community obscenity standards in three south Florida counties: Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach.
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1992 Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" video debuts on MTV. The 9-minute epic is the most expensive video ever made to this point, costing $1.5 million. Much of the budget was spent constructing a church in the desert so Slash could solo in front of it.
1987 "You Keep Me Hangin' On" hits #1 in the US for the second time when Kim Wilde's version tops the chart. The Supremes original made the top spot in 1966.
1987 Heart release their ninth album, Bad Animals, which like their previous album, uses outside songwriters. The big hit from the disc is the #1 ballad "Alone," written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly.More
1982 The "Peace Sunday: We Have a Dream" concert takes place in Los Angeles, featuring Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne and Stevie Wonder. 85,000 attend the show, which supports nuclear disarmament.
1975 "It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June," according to C.W. McCall's song "Convoy."
1964 The Dixie Cups' "Chapel Of Love," a Phil Spector wall-of-sound production, hits #1 in America, where it stays for three weeks.
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