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I'm seeing a trend in your posts, hhguitarist92.

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June 27th

2002 - John Entwistle, bass player for The Who passes away

1971 - The Fillmore East concert hall in New York City closes with performances by J. Geils Band, Beach Boys, Allman Brothers and Mountain.

1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``A World Without Love,'' Peter and Gordon. Paul McCartney and John Lennon write the song. It is the first time a McCartney-Lennon song tops the pop chart for a group other than the Beatles.

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[quote="JAM76"]June 27th

2002 - John Entwistle, bass player for The Who passes away


:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

I guess I'll go to June 28th.
I don't have a calendar but in my Ringo Starr book it says:

"1974:June 28th:John Lennon records a demo disc of 'Goodnight Vienna' for Ringo. Ringo forms another company, Reckongrade Ltd."

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June, 29th

1979 Guitarist and Little Feat founder Lowell George is found dead of a heart attack in a hotel room in Arlington, Va., at age 34. Little Feat's best selling album is ``Waiting for Columbus,'' which sells more than 500,000 copies and reaches No. 18 on Billboard's pop album chart.

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June 29 ,1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to one year in jail on drug charges,

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June 30

2001 - Country legend Chet Atkins, one of the most influential and widely recorded instrumentalists ever, dies of cancer at his home in Nashville. He is 77.

1996 - Neil Young premieres his album, "Broken Arrow" via the Internet. The album is slated for release on July 2, two days after its technologically advanced premiere.

1974 - Greg Allman marries Cher four days after her divorce from Sonny Bono. After nine days, Cher announces she wants another divorce. They separate and divorce about 3 1/2 years later.

1963 - Yngwie Malmsteen is born in Stockholm, Sweden. The virtuoso guitarist,composer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader became notable in the mid-1980s for his technical fluency and neo-classical metal compositions. Four of his albums, from 1984 to 1988, Rising Force, Marching Out, Trilogy, and Odyssey, ranked in the top 100 for sales. (Malmsteen is also a Fender signed artist.)

1944 - Vocalist Glenn Shorrock of the Little River Band is born in Rochester, England. LRB has six top 10 hits, the biggest of which is ``Reminiscing,'' which reaches No. 3 in 1978. Two of the group's albums, ``Sleeper Catcher'' and ``First Under the Wire,'' sell more than 1 million copies.

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Ill take today July 1st

1949
Nashville's Bullet Records releases the first record by Memphis-based Riley "B.B." King, host of a popular show on WDIA.

1953
Elvis Presley stops at Memphis Recording Service to record two songs, "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," as a birthday present for his mother. Phillips notes that Presley has a good feel for ballads and should be invited back


1966
Ahmet Ertegun signs the English group Cream. Atlantic will become a major force in British rock, releasing albums by such artists as the Bee Gees, Mott the Hoople, Yes, Genesis, Derek and the Dominos, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Led Zeppelin


1968
Bill Graham takes over the Carousel — a music hall owned by the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead — and re-christens it Fillmore West.

1968-The Band's "Music From Big Pink" is released with a painting by Bob Dylan on the cover and went on to inspire Eric Clapton and The Beatles

1971
John Lennon cuts 'Imagine' at his home studio. The anthemic title track is inspired by a message in Yoko Ono's book 'Grapefruit.'

1976
Lifelong Buddy Holly fan Paul McCartney purchases rights to the entire Holly song catalog.

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Ill take today July 1st

1949
Nashville's Bullet Records releases the first record by Memphis-based Riley "B.B." King, host of a popular show on WDIA.

1953
Elvis Presley stops at Memphis Recording Service to record two songs, "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," as a birthday present for his mother. Phillips notes that Presley has a good feel for ballads and should be invited back


1966
Ahmet Ertegun signs the English group Cream. Atlantic will become a major force in British rock, releasing albums by such artists as the Bee Gees, Mott the Hoople, Yes, Genesis, Derek and the Dominos, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Led Zeppelin


1968
Bill Graham takes over the Carousel — a music hall owned by the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead — and re-christens it Fillmore West.

1968-The Band's "Music From Big Pink" is released with a painting by Bob Dylan on the cover and went on to inspire Eric Clapton and The Beatles

1971
John Lennon cuts 'Imagine' at his home studio. The anthemic title track is inspired by a message in Yoko Ono's book 'Grapefruit.'

1976
Lifelong Buddy Holly fan Paul McCartney purchases rights to the entire Holly song catalog.



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006 - Co-founder of Mercury Records Irving Green dies in Palm Springs, Calif. at the age of 90.

1981 - Rushton Moreve of Steppenwolf dies in an auto wreck at age 35. The group's biggest hit is ``Born to Be Wild,'' which reaches No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1968.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix records his first session at Electric Ladyland Studios, New York.

1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono are hospitalized after an auto accident in Scotland.

1952 - Comedian/actor/writer/Blues Brother and House of Blues co-founder Dan Aykroyd is born in Ottawa, Canada.

1951 - Fred Schneider of the B-52s is born in Georgia. Two singles from the group's 1989 album, ``Cosmic Thing,'' sell more than 500,000 copies and reach No. 3 on Billboard's pop singles chart: ``Love Shack'' and ``Roam.''

1945 - Deborah Harry is born in Miami. She is the lead singer of the techno-pop group Blondie from 1975-83. The group has four million-selling No. 1 singles. Its biggest hit is ``Call Me,'' which tops the chart for six weeks and is the theme for the film ``American Gigolo.''

1935 - Bluesman James Cotton is born.

1915 - Bluesman Willie Dixon is born in Vicksburg, Miss. He is a Golden Gloves heavyweight champion in Chicago in 1936. He writes hundreds of blues songs and produces a majority of the Chicago blues records into the 1970s. His biggest pop hit is ``Walking the Blues,'' a No. 6 song in 1955.

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July 2nd


2002 - Ray Brown, a legendary jazz bassist who played with giants Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, and his one-time wife Ella Fitzgerald in a career that spanned more than half a century, dies in his sleep at the age of 75.

2001 - Yoko Ono visits the Beatle's hometown of Liverpool, England, to attend a ceremony announcing the renaming of the Liverpool Airport as the Liverpool John Lennon Airport in honor of her late husband.

1991 - Several people are injured at a Guns N' Roses concert in Maryland Heights, Mo., a St. Louis suburb. Lead singer Axl Rose is charged with third-degree assault and property damage but doesn't turn himself in for a year.

1956 - Elvis Presley records ``Don't Be Cruel,'' ``Hound Dog'' and ``Anyway You Want Me'' in New York. It marks the first time he uses the Jordanaires as background singers. The two-sided hit ``Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog'' tops Billboard's Hot 100 for 11 weeks, setting a record in the rock era that stands until 1992.

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July 3rd

2001 - Country songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Johnny Russell dies of complications relating to diabetes in a hospital outside Nashville. He is 61.

2000 - DirecTV broadcasts the 1939 film "The Wizard Of Oz," with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" in sync on the alternate Second Audio Program (SAP). While no one involved with Pink Floyd has ever admitted to any link between the bands seminal 1973 album and the classic film, urban legend purports that the album was conceived as an alternate soundtrack to Dorothy's adventures in Oz.

1971 - Jim Morrison of the Doors dies of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 27.

1970 - The Allman Brothers Band appears at the Atlanta Pop Festival.

1957 - Laura Branigan is born in Brewster, N.Y. Her biggest hit is ``Gloria,'' a million-selling record that stays at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks in 1982.

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And to go back to 1 year ago when this thread 1st began...

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July 4th Happy Independence Day USA...

This day in music history

1938 - Singer/songwriter Bill Withers is born in Slab Fork, W.Va. His biggest hit is the 1972 million-selling No. 1 song ``Lean on Me.'' A 1987 remake by Club Nouveau also hits No. 1 and sells 1 million copies.

1982 - Ozzy Osbourne marries his manager, Sharon Arden.

1987 - ``The July Fourth Disarmament Festival'' in the Soviet Union features the Doobie Brothers, Santana, Bonnie Raitt and Soviet music groups.

1995 - The Ramones release ``Adios Amigos.'' It's speculated to be the band's last album ever.

1995 - At Lollapalooza in George, Wash., Courtney Love belts Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna. Charged with assault, Love receives a suspended one-year sentence and is required to take courses in anger management.

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2006 - Pink Floyd co-founder Roger "Syd" Barrett dies in Cambridge, England at the age of 60, due to complications from diabetes.

2001 - Folk singer/songwriter Fred Neil is found dead at his home in Summerland Key, Fla., apparently of natural causes. He is 64. Neil was best known as the writer of "Everybody's Talkin'," which became the theme of the 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy."

2000 - Metallica vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield aggravates a chronic back injury before a show at Atlanta's Georgia Dome. The band plays its scheduled sets on the Summer Sanitorium tour in Atlanta, Sparta, Ky., and Irving, Texas, with bassist Jason Newstead handling vocal chores on several songs, and using members of several other bands on the bill to fill in on vocals and guitar. Among those who help out are Kid Rock and sidekick Joe C, Korn's Jonathan Davis, and System of a Down's Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian.

1971 - Guitarist Bjorn Ulvaeus and vocalist Agnetha Faltskog of the Swedish megagroup Abba marry in Verum, Sweden.

1967 - The Monkees open a national tour with little-known Jimi Hendrix as the opening act.

1956 - Johnny Cash makes his first appearance on ``Grand Ole Opry.'' He later becomes a regular member of the cast.

1940 - Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is born in Liverpool, England. He replaces Pete Best as the Beatles drummer in August 1962. He has two million-selling No. 1 solo singles: ``Photograph'' and ``You're Sixteen.'' He marries actress Barbara Bach in 1981 and appears in several films, including ``That'll Be the Day,'' ``Cave Man'' and Paul McCartney's ``Give My Regards to Broad Street.''

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