Music History
1955 Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
Music Premiere
1969 Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th Symphony premieres in Moscow
- 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
Music Concert
1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana; performers included Chuck Berry; Stephen Stills; WAR; John Sebastian; and Delaney and Bonnie
Music History
1975 British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
Music History
1975 Elton John, The Eagles and The Beach Boys play to 72,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, London
Evita
1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Evita", starring Elaine Page, premieres at the Prince Edward Theatre, London
Glastonbury Festival
1979 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Tim Blake and Peter Gabriel headline; other performs include: Steve Hillage, The Alex Harvey Band, and Sky
Music History
1981 Donald Fagen and Walter Becker disband their rock group Steely Dan
Take It Away
1982 Paul McCartney releases single "Take It Away"
Glastonbury Festival
1985 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Echo & the Bunnyman, Joe Cocker, and The Boomtown Rats headline; other performers include: The Style Council, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Nick Lowe, Third World, Gregory Isaacs, Hugh Masekela, Clannad, Midnight Oil, Aswad, and The Pogues
Music History
1990 Little Richard [Penniman] gets a star on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame
Camelot
1993 Revival of Lerner and Loewe' musical "Camelot", with Robert Goulet as King Arthur, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 56 performances
TheFutureEmbrace
2005 Billy Corgan releases "TheFutureEmbrace", his first solo album
Glastonbury Festival
2017 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, and Ed Sheeran headline; other performers include Kris Kristofferson, Barry Gibb, Katy Perry, The National, and Orchestra Baobob
Music History
2020 Kurt Cobain's guitar during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged show sells for a record $6 million