TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY - June 19th
1948 - Born this day, Nick Drake, in Rangoon, Burma, singer, songwriter, 1972 album 'Pink Moon, committed suicide on 25 November 1974 aged 26.
1951 - Born this day, Ann Wilson, rock singer, Heart, 1987 US No.1 and UK No.3 single Alone.
1963 - Born this day, Paula Abdul, choreographer, singer, dancer, 1990 US No.1 and UK No.2 single Opposites Attract, plus five other US No.1 singles. 1989 album Forever Your Girl spent ten weeks as US No.1. Judge on American Idol TV show.
1965 - The Four Tops went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Can't Help Myself'. Lead singer Levi Stubbs had not been satisfied with the recording session and was promised that he could do it again the following day, but no other session ever took place. The track that became a hit was just the second take of the song.
1967 - Having admitted to taking LSD four times during an interview with Life Magazine, Beatle Paul McCartney told The Daily Mirror that he didn't regret that he'd spoken out and hoped that his fans would understand
1968 - The Rolling Stones had their seventh UK No.1 single with Jumping Jack Flash.
1971 - Carole King started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move. Both songs were from the album Tapestry, which also topped the US charts on this day.
1977 - Paul Cook from The Sex Pistols was beaten up by six men wielding knives and iron bars outside Shepherd's Bush underground station. Cook required 15 stitches to a head wound.
1977 - Elvis Presley made his final live concert recordings, at a series of concerts in Nebraska. He died two months later.
1980 - US singer Donna Summer became the first act to be signed by David Geffen to his new Geffen record label.
1993 - Tina Turner went to No.1 on the UK album chart with What's Love Got To Do With It.
2007 - Darren Hayes, formerly of Australian pop duo Savage Garden, married his boyfriend Richard Cullen in a civil partnership ceremony in London. Hayes was previously married to make-up artist Colby Taylor between 1997 and 1999.
2007 - Lawyers for Britney Spears demanded a Florida radio station remove "offensive" advertisements, which featured her with a shaved head. The WFLZ billboards included the slogans "Total nut jobs", "Shock Therapy" and "Certifiable", which ran across pictures of a bald Spears. Law firm Lavely and Singer demanded the "immediate removal" of the banners in a letter to the station. Spears was photographed shaving her own head in a Californian hair salon earlier this year.
2011 - Amy Winehouse was booed by crowds in Serbia's capital Belgrade after appearing to be too drunk to perform. The concert - the first on the singers 12-day European tour, saw Winehouse mumble her way through parts of songs, leave the stage altogether and at one point she threw her microphone to the floor. She was frequently booed by the crowd, who had paid up to £45 to see her in a country in which wages are some of the lowest in Europe.
2013 – Most popular song played on NZ radio over the past week is “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke.
1948 - Born this day, Nick Drake, in Rangoon, Burma, singer, songwriter, 1972 album 'Pink Moon, committed suicide on 25 November 1974 aged 26.
1951 - Born this day, Ann Wilson, rock singer, Heart, 1987 US No.1 and UK No.3 single Alone.
1963 - Born this day, Paula Abdul, choreographer, singer, dancer, 1990 US No.1 and UK No.2 single Opposites Attract, plus five other US No.1 singles. 1989 album Forever Your Girl spent ten weeks as US No.1. Judge on American Idol TV show.
1965 - The Four Tops went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Can't Help Myself'. Lead singer Levi Stubbs had not been satisfied with the recording session and was promised that he could do it again the following day, but no other session ever took place. The track that became a hit was just the second take of the song.
1967 - Having admitted to taking LSD four times during an interview with Life Magazine, Beatle Paul McCartney told The Daily Mirror that he didn't regret that he'd spoken out and hoped that his fans would understand
1968 - The Rolling Stones had their seventh UK No.1 single with Jumping Jack Flash.
1971 - Carole King started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move. Both songs were from the album Tapestry, which also topped the US charts on this day.
1977 - Paul Cook from The Sex Pistols was beaten up by six men wielding knives and iron bars outside Shepherd's Bush underground station. Cook required 15 stitches to a head wound.
1977 - Elvis Presley made his final live concert recordings, at a series of concerts in Nebraska. He died two months later.
1980 - US singer Donna Summer became the first act to be signed by David Geffen to his new Geffen record label.
1993 - Tina Turner went to No.1 on the UK album chart with What's Love Got To Do With It.
2007 - Darren Hayes, formerly of Australian pop duo Savage Garden, married his boyfriend Richard Cullen in a civil partnership ceremony in London. Hayes was previously married to make-up artist Colby Taylor between 1997 and 1999.
2007 - Lawyers for Britney Spears demanded a Florida radio station remove "offensive" advertisements, which featured her with a shaved head. The WFLZ billboards included the slogans "Total nut jobs", "Shock Therapy" and "Certifiable", which ran across pictures of a bald Spears. Law firm Lavely and Singer demanded the "immediate removal" of the banners in a letter to the station. Spears was photographed shaving her own head in a Californian hair salon earlier this year.
2011 - Amy Winehouse was booed by crowds in Serbia's capital Belgrade after appearing to be too drunk to perform. The concert - the first on the singers 12-day European tour, saw Winehouse mumble her way through parts of songs, leave the stage altogether and at one point she threw her microphone to the floor. She was frequently booed by the crowd, who had paid up to £45 to see her in a country in which wages are some of the lowest in Europe.
2013 – Most popular song played on NZ radio over the past week is “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke.