Happy Friday and let’s get ready for the weekend. Let’s do this, June 16th In Music History. Today we look back on stuff from Elton John and ((((((((
2022
Sir Elton John kicked off the UK leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in Norwich
2016
Meat Loaf was rushed to hospital after collapsing on stage during a concert in Edmonton, Canada.
2010
Gary Shider died from cancer of the brain and lungs. He was musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars and as a member of Parliament-Funkadelic he scored the hit ‘One Nation Under A Groove’.
2007
Rod Stewart married model girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera just outside the resort of Portofino.
2002
46 years after his first hit, Elvis Presley started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘A Little Less Conversation’, (Elvis vs. JXL), giving Elvis a total of 18 UK No.1 singles, the most by any artist in chart history.
2000
On the first night of his ‘Up in Smoke’ tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Dogg’s tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested.
1990 – Roxette
Roxette started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘It Must Have Been Love’. The song, taken from the film ‘Pretty Woman’ became the duo’s third US No.1
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1971, American rapper and actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, (born Lesane Parish Crooks)
1958, Patrick Waite, Musical Youth, best remembered for their successful 1982 single ‘Pass the Dutchie’, which became a No.1 hit around the world.
1954, Garry Roberts, guitar, The Boomtown Rats,
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