Musical birthdays today include film score composer Lalo Schifrin (83), blue grass banjo player Eddie Adcock (77), Brazilian jazz keyboardist Eumir Deodato (72), Ray Davies (71), soul singer & Motown songwriter Brenda Holloway (69), ex-Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland (68), Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer (65), Nils Lofgren (64), ex-Big Country drummer Mark Brzezicki (58), former Shakespears Sister vocalist Marcella Detroit (56), country singer Kathy Mattea (56), French chansonnier Manu Chao (54), rapper Pete Rock (45), country singer Allison Moorer (43), Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger (39), The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers (34), Lana Del Rey (29), and Rebecca Black (18).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Johann Christoph Bach, born today in 1732... for composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who died on this date in 1908... for original Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise, who died in 1979... for John Lee Hooker, who passed away in 2001... and for soul & gospel singer Mary Love, who left us two years ago today.
Also on June 21st: In Munich, Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'is staged for the first time (1868)... Richard Strauss conducts the premiere performance of his own tone poem Tod und Verklärung [Death and Transfiguration] in Eisenach, the birthplace of J.S. Bach (1890)... The Byrds' debut album Mr. Tambourine Man is released (1965)... Jimmy Page makes his live debut with The Yardbirds at the Marquee Club, London... Working at Abbey Road, The Beatles record John's new song 'She Said She Said' in one extended session (1966)... Pink Floyd play two shows in one day: the first at the Commemoration Ball, Balliol College, Oxford, and the follow-up at the Middle Earth Club, Covent Garden, London. The club venue is notable for several previous drug raids by the police, during which underage revellers were arrested; on one occasion a device called the 'Trip Machine' was dismantled and taken away by police (1968)... Elton John, The Beach Boys, Joe Walsh, Rufus and The Eagles are on the bill for a one-day festival in front of 120,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, London. Tickets cost £3.50... The Captain and Tennille go to № 1 on the US singles chart with the Neil Sedaka song 'Love Will Keep Us Together'. The couple had previously worked as backup singers for Sedaka and Elton John... Ritchie Blackmore announces that he is leaving Deep Purple to form his own group called Rainbow (1975)... The musical 'Evita' has its world premiere in London's West End (1978)... French police arrest all the members of The Stranglers after a concert at the University of Nice for allegedly inciting a riot (1980)... Crosby, Stills & Nash release Daylight Again, their first album of new material in 5 years (1982)... Genesis have the № 1 album in the UK with Invisible Touch, which also produces 5 US Top 40 singles, making it the most commercially successful album of their career (1986)... The Orb release the single 'Blue Room', which clocks in at 39 minutes and 58 seconds, two seconds shorter than the maximum permitted for a single under UK chart rules. The song will peak at № 8 (1992)... Karen Jane McNeil, who claims that she is the wife of Axl Rose and communicates with the Guns N' Roses lead singer telepathically, is sentenced to a year in a secure psychiatric facility by a judge in Malibu, CA (2000)... People Magazine reports that country star Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's (2011).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Johann Christoph Bach, born today in 1732... for composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who died on this date in 1908... for original Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise, who died in 1979... for John Lee Hooker, who passed away in 2001... and for soul & gospel singer Mary Love, who left us two years ago today.
Also on June 21st: In Munich, Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'is staged for the first time (1868)... Richard Strauss conducts the premiere performance of his own tone poem Tod und Verklärung [Death and Transfiguration] in Eisenach, the birthplace of J.S. Bach (1890)... The Byrds' debut album Mr. Tambourine Man is released (1965)... Jimmy Page makes his live debut with The Yardbirds at the Marquee Club, London... Working at Abbey Road, The Beatles record John's new song 'She Said She Said' in one extended session (1966)... Pink Floyd play two shows in one day: the first at the Commemoration Ball, Balliol College, Oxford, and the follow-up at the Middle Earth Club, Covent Garden, London. The club venue is notable for several previous drug raids by the police, during which underage revellers were arrested; on one occasion a device called the 'Trip Machine' was dismantled and taken away by police (1968)... Elton John, The Beach Boys, Joe Walsh, Rufus and The Eagles are on the bill for a one-day festival in front of 120,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, London. Tickets cost £3.50... The Captain and Tennille go to № 1 on the US singles chart with the Neil Sedaka song 'Love Will Keep Us Together'. The couple had previously worked as backup singers for Sedaka and Elton John... Ritchie Blackmore announces that he is leaving Deep Purple to form his own group called Rainbow (1975)... The musical 'Evita' has its world premiere in London's West End (1978)... French police arrest all the members of The Stranglers after a concert at the University of Nice for allegedly inciting a riot (1980)... Crosby, Stills & Nash release Daylight Again, their first album of new material in 5 years (1982)... Genesis have the № 1 album in the UK with Invisible Touch, which also produces 5 US Top 40 singles, making it the most commercially successful album of their career (1986)... The Orb release the single 'Blue Room', which clocks in at 39 minutes and 58 seconds, two seconds shorter than the maximum permitted for a single under UK chart rules. The song will peak at № 8 (1992)... Karen Jane McNeil, who claims that she is the wife of Axl Rose and communicates with the Guns N' Roses lead singer telepathically, is sentenced to a year in a secure psychiatric facility by a judge in Malibu, CA (2000)... People Magazine reports that country star Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's (2011).
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