Rock 'n' Roll History for
June 14


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1961 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Gene Vincent is mobbed by a group of fans and accidentally knocked down a flight of stairs after a performance at The Majestic, Newcastle in the UK. The fall knocks Vincent out cold.

June 14
Country singer Patsy Cline sustains near-fatal head injuries and a fractured hip in a car accident in Madison, Tennessee. A passenger in the other car was killed. Six weeks after the accident, still on crutches, Cline appeared on the Grand Ol' Opry.

1965 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Paul McCartney records "Yesterday" by himself, after trying unsuccessfully to fit in the rest of the Beatles. The song would top the charts in America and five other countries around the world. It would later be recorded by over 3,000 other artists and become the most covered tune in music history. In describing it, Paul has said, "I did the tune easily and then the words took about two weeks." In 1997, "Yesterday" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

1966 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
A 12-year-old Beatles fan named Carol Dryden nearly suffocated when she tried to mail herself to The Beatles. A railway porter in Sunderland, England noticed the box she was in was moving and released her before tragedy struck.

1967 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
"Daydream Believer" by The Monkees was recorded at RCA Studio A in Hollywood, California. The song appeared the album "The Birds, The Bees, and The Monkees" and was released as a single on Colgems Records on October 25th, 1967. It's the only song on the LP that all four members of the band actually performed on, and the only one that included Peter Tork at all. (He played piano on the track.)

June 14
The Beatles begin recording "All You Need Is Love" at Olympic Sound Studios in London, England. Included on the albums "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Yellow Submarine", the song will top the Billboard Hot 100, the UK's Record Retailer, and charts in ten other European countries.

1968 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
23 year old Rod Stewart got his first major exposure in the US when he opened a tour with The Jeff Beck Group at The Fillmore East in New York. Stewart had a bad case of stage fright and partially hid behind a speaker cabinet through the first song.

1970 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Grand Funk Railroad spends $100,000 for a block long billboard in New York's Times Square to advertise its latest record, "Closer to Home". The stunt would pay off when the album rose to #6 on the Billboard 200 chart, and achieve RIAA Gold Record status later in the year.

June 14
Eric Clapton's Derek And The Dominoes made their live debut in Britain. The group was joined by Dave Mason, who played the guitar parts performed by Duane Allman on Derek And The Dominoes' only studio album, "Layla".

June 14
Warner Bros. release The Grateful Dead's fourth studio album (and fifth overall), "Workingman's Dead". A single from the LP, "Uncle John's Band" will climb to #69 on the Hot 100 and become one of the Dead's most beloved songs. The album itself would make it to #27 on the Billboard 200 chart, and was certified Platinum on October 13th, 1986.

1975 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy", recorded live at the Universal Amphi-theater in California by John Denver, topped the Cashbox Best Sellers chart. The song was written by John Martin Sommers, a member of Denver's backup band.

June 14
America achieve their second Billboard number one record and their seventh Top 40 hit with "Sister Golden Hair". The song was not a hit in the UK. Songwriter and group member Gerry Beckley would later say that the subject of the song is fictional, and he didn't write the tune about anyone in particular.

1980 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Billy Joel started a six-week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 with his second chart topping LP, "Glass Houses". The album would go on to sell over seven million copies on the strength of the singles, "You May Be Right" (#7), "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" (#1) and "Don't Ask Me Why" (#19).

1984 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Madame Tussaud's Waxworks in London unveils a model of Boy George on his 23rd birthday.

1986 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald had Billboard's top tune with "On My Own". The pair actually recorded their vocal parts separately and had never met until after the song went to number one.

1993 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Police in Port St. Lucie, Florida charged a 16 year-old boy with murder after he confessed to killing a woman who did not like the lyrics he was rapping. Victor Brancaccio punched and kicked 81 year-old Mollie May Frazier in the head and chest after she objected to the obscenities in a song he was playing over headphones and singing along to. He later spray-painted and burned the corpse in an effort to hide his actions and erase fingerprints. He was convicted in 1995 and was sentenced to two terms of life in prison.

1995 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
ABC's Diane Sawyer interviewed Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley on ABC-TV's Prime Time Live. It was the couple's first interview since their surprise marriage a year earlier and was part of the publicity push for Jackson's album "HIStory - Past, Present and Future: Book One". Jackson and Presley declared they were a "normal married couple who hoped to have a baby". When asked if they had sex, they replied "yes, yes, yes!" They also confirmed that a prenuptial agreement had been signed.

June 14
Several residents of Columbus, Ohio call the police to complain about the volume of a Ted Nugent concert. The Motor City Madman refused to quiet down because the music was within legal noise limits.

2003 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
60-year-old Gerry Marsden of Gerry And The Pacemakers is awarded a Member of the British Empire medal by Queen Elizabeth II in London, England.

2004 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
James Brown pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge stemming from an incident last January in which he was accused of assaulting his wife, Tomi Rea Brown. He was not sentenced to any jail time, but forfeited a $1087 bond.

2009 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of The Ventures, passed away at the age of 75. The band is best known for their instrumental hits "Walk, Don't Run" (#2 in 1960) and "Hawaii Five-O" (#4 in 1969).

2010 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Tim Bachman, one of the founders of the '70s Rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive, was charged by Abbotsford, British Columbia police with sexual interference of a person under 14, touching a young person for a sexual purpose and sexual assault. Police charged Bachman for incidents that allegedly began ten years ago in Abbotsford when the complainant was 11 years old. In May, 2013, he would be found not guilty. Bachman was again arrested by Abbotsford police on May 26, 2014 on new charges relating to incidents from the 1990s involving a different alleged victim. Those charges were stayed on November 19, 2015.

2016 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
Henry McCullough, who played guitar for Paul McCartney's band, Wings, passed away at the age of 72. His work was featured on the hits "Hi, Hi, Hi", "Live and Let Die" and McCartney's solo hit, "My Love".

2017 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
The National Music Publishers Association announced at their annual meeting in New York that from here on, Yoko Ono would receive song writing credit on John Lennon's "Imagine". Ono and her son, Sean Ono Lennon, were in attendance to pick up a Song Of The Century Award for the 1971 song and were not expecting the announcement.

June 14
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's hit "Summer Wine" debuted at #1 on Billboard & Clio's Top TV Commercials chart after its appearance in H&M's The Summer Shop 2017 ad. The song had reached #49 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April, 1967.

2018 - ClassicBands.com

June 14
With sales of over 2,000 copies during the previous week, "The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac" surpassed the two million mark. The album peaked at #12 on the Billboard chart in 2002.



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