Pick a Day

11 JUNE

In Music History

1977 KC and the Sunshine Band's "I'm Your Boogie Man" hits #1 in America.

1976 The Carpenters release A Kind Of Hush.

1976 Wild Cherry release "Play That Funky Music."

1971 A drunken Dennis Wilson, drummer for The Beach Boys, accidentally puts his hand through the glass door of his home, severing nerves that keep him from his instrument for the better part of three years.

1969 Dan Lavery (bass guitarist for Tonic) is born.

1966 The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black," featuring Brian Jones on sitar, hits #1 in America.

1966 European radio is abuzz with rumors that Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, has been killed in an auto accident days earlier. In fact, guitarist Pete Townshend was in the wreck, but survived with minor injuries.

1965 Some MBE (Members of the British Empire) recipients return their awards in protest when it is announced that The Beatles will be honored with the award. The group is generally mystified, but their older relatives seem thrilled, so they accept the awards at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace.

1961 Robert Birch (vocalist for Stereo MC's) is born in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England.

1958 Pop/rock musician Barry Adamson (bass guitarist of Magazine) is born in Moss Side, Manchester, England.

1958 Jerry Lee Lewis finds that the marriage scandal involving his 14-year-old second cousin has migrated back to the States when he is booed off a New York stage. The second show is canceled due to poor ticket sales, and Lewis' career, for the time being anyway, is ruined.

1957 Elvis Presley releases "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" b/w "Loving You."

1952 Donnie Van Zant (guitarist, vocalist for .38 Special, Van Zant) is born in Jacksonville, Florida.

1950 Singer/guitarist Graham Russell is born Cyril Graham Russell in Nottingham, England. He moves to Australia in 1968 and forms Air Supply with Russell Hitchcock. Graham is the primary songwriter in the group, penning their hits "All Out Of Love" and "The One That You Love."

1949 ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is born in Frankston, Texas. When his bandmates Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill grow outlandish beards in the late '70s, Beard is the only member without a beard.