| 1967, The three day Monterey Pop Festival in California began. All the proceeds went to charity when all the artists agreed to perform for free, the "Summer of Love" was born. The festival saw the first major US appearances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Also on the bill: The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, The Mamas And The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and The Electric Flag. Tickets cost $3.50–6.50 (£2–3.80). John Phillips, of The Mamas and The Papas would later write, 'San Francisco' (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) about the festival, which became a hit for Scott McKenzie.  1970, Mungo Jerry were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'In The Summertime'. It went on to
become the best selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1 and was a hit in 26 other countries.
The UK release was a maxi-single playing at 33 rpm, (whereas singles generally played at 45 rpm). |  | 1973, Suzi Quatro had her first UK No.1 single with the Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song 'Can The Can'.
10CC were at No.2 with 'Rubber Bullets' and Fleetwood Mac at No.3 with 'Albatross.'
| | 1974, Tangerine Dream made their live UK debut at London's Victoria Palace. | | 1976, The Jackson Five four-week summer variety show premiered on CBS- TV featuring The Jacksons plus sisters Latoya,
Rebbie and Janet. | | | 1977, Kenny Rogers was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Lucille'. It was the American Country music singer's first of two UK No.1's. | | | 1979, Donna Summer scored her second US No.1 album with 'Bad Girls'. | | 1979, The Electric Light Orchestra started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Discovery' their first No.1 LP,
featuring the tracks 'Shine A Little Love', 'Don't Bring Me Down' and 'The Diary Of Horace Wimp'. | | | 1980, The Blues Brothers film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago. The film also featured Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles in the role of a streetwise storeowner.  | 1982, Donny Vanzant of 38 Special was arrested on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (a dry town) for drinking alcohol in a public place. | | 1984, Frankie Goes To Hollywood had their second UK No.1 single with 'Two Tribes.' It stayed at No.1 for nine weeks
making Frankie Goes To Hollywood the first band to have their first two singles go to the top of the UK chart.
During this run the group's previous single 'Relax' climbed back up the charts to No.2. | | | 1988, Vince Neil of Motley Crue married mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell. | | 1989, The first day of the UK three day Glastonbury Festival took place featuring Van Morrison, Elvis Costello,
Throwing Muses, Pixies, All About Eve, Hot House Flowers, The Waterboys, Suzanne Vega and Fairground Attraction. Tickets cost £28 ($48). | | | 1990, After a court battle, pop duo Bros paid over £40,000 in settlement of a legal dispute over management. | | 1990, 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 and a No.3 hit in the UK. | | 1994, Oasis played at The Erotika Club, Paris in France, the bands first gig outside the UK. | | | 1996, Metallica went to No.1 on the UK album charts with their album 'Load'. | | | 1996, Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugees, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Lee Hooker, Beck, Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, De La Soul and Richie Havens all appeared at the two-day Tibetan Freedom Concert, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: A sell-out crowd of over 100,000 made it the largest US benefit concert since Live Aid in 1985. | 1999, Cher kicked off her 122 date 'Believe Tour' at the America West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. | | 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. | | 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. This also set a new record for the longest span of No.1 hits with 44 years,
11 months and 9 days. His first UK No.1 single was 'All Shook Up' in 1957. | | 2007, Rod Stewart married model girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera just outside the resort of Portofino.
The 62 year old singer was previously married to models Alana Hamilton and Rachel Hunter and has seven children in total.
 | | 2008, Coldplay kicked off their Viva la Vida, 161-date world tour at the Brixton Academy in London, England. | | | | June 16th: Born on this day | | 1941, Born on this day, Lamont Dozier, (Holland/Dozier/Holland), producer, songwriter, wrote many hits for Motown records,
including The Supremes, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas plus Freda Payne and Chairmen Of The Board. | | | 1942, Born on this day, Edward Levert, The O'Jays, (1973 US No.1 & UK No.9 single 'Love Train'). | | 1946, Born on this day, Ian Matthews, singer, Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort, (1970 UK No.1 &
1971 US No. 23 single 'Woodstock'). Solo. | | | 1949, Born on this day, Peppy Castro, The Blue Magoos, (1967 US No.5 single, 'We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet'). | | 1950, Born on this day, James Smith, vocals, The Stylistics, (1974 US No.2 single 'You Make Me Feel Brand New',
1975 UK No.1 single 'Can't Give You Anything But My Love' plus 15 other UK Top 40 singles). | | | 1953, Born on this day, Ian Mosley, drums, Marillion, (joined in 1983, 1985 UK No.2 single 'Kayleigh'). | | 1954, Born on this day, Gerry Roberts, guitar, The Boomtown Rats, (1979 UK No.1 single 'I Don't Like Mondays' plus 10 other
UK Top 40 hit singles). | | | 1958, Born on this day, Patrick Waite, Musical Youth, (1982 UK No.1 single 'Pass The Dutchie'). Waite died on 13th February 1993. | | | 1966, Born on this day, MC Ren, NWA, (1990 UK No.26 single 'Express Yourself'). | | | 1971, Born on this day, Tupac Amaru Shakur, (born Lesane Parish Crooks). Died from bullet wounds on September 13th 1996. 1996 US No.1 single 'How Do U Want It / California Love.' 1996 UK No. 6 single, 'California Love'. Died on this day | | 1982, Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died following sustained cocaine and heroin addiction. 1999, Screaming Lord Sutch was found dead after hanging himself. The singer turned politician was 58. He was the first long-haired pop star-boasting hair over 18 inches long and the self-styled lord (real name David Sutch), was Britain's longest-serving political leader, standing in nearly 40 elections.
2001, Four-year-old Daniel Karven-Veres drowned in Tommy Lee's swimming pool while attending a birthday party for Lee's 5-year-old son, Brandon. His parents, James Veres and Ursula Karven, sued Lee for negligence, claiming they should have been told that a swimming pool was involved, (their son could not swim). Lee was cleared by a jury in April 2003. | | |
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