Music Almanac: June 11

Births:

• 1904 - Pinetop Smith (d. 1929)
• 1934 - James “Pookie” Hudson (Spaniels) (d. 2007)
• 1936 - Jud Strunk (d. 1981)
• 1939 - Wilma Burgess (d. 2003)
• 1940 - Joey Dee (Joey Dee & the Starliters) (72)
• 1946 - John Lawton (Uriah Heep, Lucifer's Friend) (66)
• 1947 - Glenn Leonard (Temptations) (65)
• 1948 - Skip Alan (Them, Pretty Things) (64)
• 1949 - Frank Beard (ZZ Top) (63)
• 1950 - Lynsey De Paul (62)
• 1952 - Donnie Van Zandt (.38 Special) (60)
• 1965 - Joey Santiago (Pixies) (47)
• 1969 - Don Lavery (Tonic) (43)
• 1976 - Tai Anderson (Third Day) (36)

Deaths:

• 1970 - Earl Grant - Car accident (39)

On This Day:

• 1949 - Hank Williams debuted on the Grand Ole Opry.
• 1954 - The Spaniels debuted at the Apollo Theater.
• 1958 - The second of two New York shows by Jerry Lee Lewis is cancelled due to poor ticket sales, most likely a reaction to his marrying his 14-year-old cousin.
• 1960 - Tommy Moore quit as the drummer for the Beatles to return to his job as a forklift driver.
• 1962 - Pete Best played drums with the Beatles for the last time during the taping of the BBC's Here We Go.
• 1964 - The Rolling Stones have a press conference in the middle of Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The police eventually show up to disperse the crowd.
• 1964 - The Beatles are "ordered" to attend the Queen's Birthday Party.
• 1966 - Word broke on European radio that Who lead singer Roger Daltrey had been killed in a car accident. The victim was Pete Townshend a few days earlier and he was hardly dead.
• 1966 - Elvis Presley begins shooting his film Double Trouble.
• 1968 - The recording of the Rolling Stones' album Begger's Banquet gets especially hot when fire breaks out at London's Olympic Studios.
• 1976 - AC/DC opened their U.K. Lock Up Your Daughters tour in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1977 - Clash members Joe Strummer and Topper Headon were held in jail after they failed to appear in court over a graffiti charge.
• 1979 - Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion and is sentenced to four months in prison.
• 1980 - Echo & the Bunnymen began their first U.K. tour in Bristol.
• 1985 - Madonna ended her The Virgin Tour at Madison Square Garden in New York.
• 1988 - The concert celebrating the 70's birthday of Nelson Mandella was held at Wembley Stadium in London. Performing were Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Dire Straits, George Michael, Eric Clapton, Tracy Chapman, UB40, Eurythmics and Simple Minds.
• 1988 - Patty Loveless became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
• 1990 - Olivia Newton-John was named a United Nations environmental ambassador.
• 1993 - What's Love Got to Do With It, the biopic of Tina Turner, opens.
• 1994 - Neal and Melinda McCoy become the parents of a son, Christian Swayde.
• 1995 - Courtney Love is hospitalized after having a bad reaction to prescription drugs.
• 1996 - Carl Perkins receives his star on the Hollywood Rock Walk.
• 1997 - Mick Hucknall of Simply Red received a Masters of Science degree at UMIST in Manchester.
• 1998 - Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots checks himself into rehab rather than go to court on heroin possession charges.
• 1998 - Amazon opens its music selling business.
• 2001 - Depeche Mode opened their Exciter Tour in Quebec City.
• 2003 - Adam Ant was arrested for disrobing in a London cafe.
• 2004 - Courtney Love surrendered to police and was charged with assault with a deadly weapon against a woman at her former manager's house.
• 2005 - Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin was awarded the OBE and Queen's Brian May was given a CBE in the annual Queen's Birthday Honours. 
• 2005 - Kelly Rowland announces on-stage that Destiny's Child will split up at the end of their current tour.

Marriages:

• 1983 - Alex Van Halen and Valerie Kendall
• 2001 - Paul McCartney and Heather Mills

Recorded:

• 1964 - Doo Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann

Released:

• 1965 - The Angry Young Them - Them
• 1969 - Space Oddity - David Bowie (single)
• 1976 - Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (single)
• 1978 - Some Girls - Rolling Stones
• 1990 - Live it Up - Crosby, Stills & Nash
• 1991 - Love Hurts - Cher
• 1991 - Unforgettable...With Love - Natalie Cole
• 1991 - Seal - Seal
• 1991 - Slave to the Grind - Skid Row
• 2002 - One Night Only - Bee Gees
• 2002 - Heathen - David Bowie
• 2002 - Untouchables - Korn
• 2002 - Sticks and Stones - New Found Glory
• 2002 - Pet Sounds Live - Brian Wilson

Broadcasts:

• 1976 - Midnight Special - Helen Reddy (host), Fleetwood Mac, Dorothy Moore, Gary Wright

Number Ones - U.S. Singles:

• 1966 - Paint It Black - Rolling Stones (2 weeks)
• 1977 - I'm Your Boogie Man - KC. & the Sunshine Band (1 week)

Number Ones - U.S. Albums:

• 1955 - Starring Sammy Davis, Jr. - Sammy Davis, Jr. (6 weeks)
• 1994 - The Sign - Ace of Base (1 week (1 previous week at number 1))
• 2005 - Out of Exile - Audioslave (1 week)

Number Ones - U.S. R&B Singles:

• 1955 - Ain't That a Shame - Fats Domino (1 week)
• 1988 - Little Walter - Tony! Toni! Tone! (1 week)
• 1994 - Any Time, Any Place - Janet Jackson (10 weeks)
• 1997 - I'll Be Missing You -  Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112 (8 weeks)

Number Ones - U.S. Country Singles:

• 1983 - Our Love is On the Faultline - Crystal Gayle (1 week)
• 1988 - I Told You So - Randy Travis (2 weeks)
• 1994 - That Ain't No Way to Go - Brooks & Dunn (1 week)

Number Ones - U.K. Singles:

• 2006 - Maneater - Nelly Furtado (3 weeks)

Number Ones - U.K. Albums:

• 2000 - Reload - Tom Jones (1 week)
• 2006 - Smile ... It Confuses People - Sandi Thom (1 week)