Archive for June 22, 2008

1611 – Composer Pablo Bruna was born.

1763 – Composer Etienne-Nicolas Mehul was born.

1959 – Chuck Berry’s “Memphis” was released.

1963 – The Safaris’ “Wipe Out” was released.

1963 – “Fingertips – Pt 2,” by Stevie Wonder, was released.

1967 – The drug possession trial of Rolling Stone members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards opened in London.

1968 – The Jeff Beck group made its U.S. debut in New York at The Fillmore East.

1968 – Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas” was released.

1969 – Blind Faith’s first and only LP was released.

1981 – Mark David Chapman pled guilty to killing John Lennon.

1990 – Billy Joel became the first rock artist to perform at Yankee Stadium.

2008 – Three days after his record label dropped him, Blake Lewis hires a public relations firm (okay, a fangirl who knows how these things work) to clarify that Justin Guarini was dropped by RCA in a shorter period of time than it took Arista to decide to drop Blake.

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