June 2nd: What Happened On This Day In Music

Name: What Happened Today In Music: June 2nd
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Description: 2013 Taylor Swift poses for photos with KYGO radio DJ David Mueller before her concert in Denver. She later accuses him of putting his hand up her dress, and

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2013
Taylor Swift poses for photos with KYGO radio DJ David Mueller before her concert in Denver. She later accuses him of putting his hand up her dress, and Mueller is fired. In 2015, he sues her, but Swift countersues and wins a sexual assault case against him. “He grabbed my bare ass,” she says in her testimony.

2018
BTS become the first K-pop band to top the US albums chart when Love Yourself: Tear debuts at #1.

2011
Pink and her husband, Carey Hart, welcome their first child, a daughter named Willow Sage.

2011
Jazz pianist/composer Ray Bryant (of The Ray Bryant Combo) dies at age 79.
2010 After being awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Paul McCartney sings “Michelle” to First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House performance.

2008
Bo Diddley dies of heart failure at age 79.

2006
Vince Welnick (keyboardist for The Tubes, Grateful Dead) commits suicide at age 55 after a long battle with depression.

2006
Jackson Browne, Dar Williams and Pete Seeger play a hayloft in Garrison, New York, to kickstart Orleans founder John Hall’s congressional campaign.

2006
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios is added to the National Historic Register.

2003
A painting of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants causes tempers to fray among drivers in Brighton. Artist Simon Etheridge put up the almost life-size picture in his own Art Asylum gallery as part of a Festival and since then motorists have caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stopped to take a second look.

2002
Pop Idol winner Will Young’s version of The Doors’ 1967 classic “Light My Fire” hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

2002
Eminem’s The Eminem Show hits #1 on both the UK and US album charts

2002
The wedding ring that Paul McCartney had given his fiancée Heather Mills ends up thrown out of the window of the hotel where the couple is staying in Miami. Hotel staff use metal detectors to find the $25,000 ring the next day. Despite the quarrel, Paul and Heather go ahead with the wedding.

2002
Rockabilly singer-songwriter Boyd Bennett (of the Rockets), known for the ’50s hits “Seventeen” and “My Boy, Flat Top,” dies of a lung ailment at age 77.

2002
S Club 7 member Hannah Spearitt announces she is quitting the group two months after her boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole had left the group.

2001
“Lady Marmalade,” a #1 US hit for Labelle in 1975, returns to the top spot with a cover featured in the movie Moulin Rouge! This version is produced by Missy Elliott and features Christina Aguilera, Pink, Mya and Lil’ Kim.

2000
Western swing bandleader Adolph Hofner dies less than a week before his 84th birthday.

1999
Junior Braithwaite (of Bob Marley’s Wailers) is gunned down in front of a fellow musician’s home in Kingston, Jamaica. Junior, age 47, is the third Wailer to be murdered, following Peter Tosh and Carlton Barrett’s 1987 deaths.

1998
50 Cent makes his major-label debut, dropping a verse on the Onyx song “React.” Over the next few years, he gets shot nine times, appears on the 8 Mile soundtrack, and releases his Dr. Dre-produced hit single, “In Da Club.”

1998
Lynyrd Skynyrd release their fourth live album, Lyve from Steel Town.

1997
Jazz trumpeter Adolphus “Doc” Cheatham dies at age 91.

1995
Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashes his collarbone in a cycling accident, causing the band to pull out of major gigs.

1993
Aerosmith appear at the Landon Arena in Kansas, the first night on their 169-date Get A Grip world tour.

1993
Jamiroquai kick off a 13-date UK tour at Royal Holloway College in Egham.

1992
Freedom Williams quits C and C Music Factory and files a $10 million fraud and breach of contract suit in New York against the group.

1990
Soul II Soul’s Vol. II (A New Decade) starts a 3-week run at #1 on the UK album chart.

1990
Mariah Carey makes the Hot 100 for the first time when her debut single, “Vision Of Love,” enters at #73. In August, the song goes to #1, as do her next four singles.

1987
Spanish classical guitarist Andres Segovia dies at age 94.

1987
Whitney Houston’s second album, Whitney, is released. It contains four #1 hits, including the enduring “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me).”

1986
Blues singer ZZ Ward is born Zsuzsanna Ward outside of Philadelphia.

1986
Randy Travis releases his debut album, Storms Of Life. Thanks to the #1 Country hits “On The Other Hand” and “Diggin’ Up Bones,” it goes on to sell over 3 million copies, establishing Travis as a star.

1984
Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1984
Aerosmith play at the Capitol Theater in Concord, New Hampshire, the first night on their 59-date North American Back In The Saddle Tour.

1984
Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman, 52, marries 18-year-old Mandy Smith in a 15-minute civil ceremony held at a registry office in Suffolk, England. The only witnesses are Smith’s sister and Wyman’s son. A proper celebration takes place three days later.

1983
The 12-inch remix of “The Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats goes to #1 on the Billboard Dance chart. MTV begins playing the huzzah-worthy video, and the song soon rises up the Hot 100.

1981
Prince makes his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom in London. He does not play the UK again for five years.

1978
Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It’s his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager Mike Appel.

1976
Tim Rice-Oxley (keyboardist for Keane) is born in Oxford, England.

1973
Electric Light Orchestra begin their first US tour, a 40-date trek kicking off in San Diego.

1973
The Wings album Red Rose Speedway hits the top of the albums chart in the US and “My Love” starts a four-week run as the #1 single on the Hot 100.

1972
Former teen idol Dion performs in a reunion concert with The Belmonts at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1972
Pink Floyd release their seventh album, Obscured By Clouds, in the UK. It is released in America on June 17.

1969
Jazz bassist Albert Stinson dies from a drug overdose at 24.

1966
The Who kick off a 10-date European tour at the Grona Lund in Stockholm, Sweden.

1964
The day after arriving in America for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first US TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, “Yeah, it knocks me out.”

1962
Ray Charles’ “I Can’t Stop Loving You” hits #1 for the first of five weeks.

1960
Tony Hadley (lead singer of Spandau Ballet) is born in Islington, London, England.

1960
Bobby Darin plays the Copacabana in New York for the first time.

1958
Alan Freed, who popularized R&B music by playing it for a white audience, moves from WINS in New York to WABC. Freed put on a lot of concerts featuring the artists he played, and WINS had suspended him over a show in Boston where a riot broke out.

1958
Barry Sadler joins the US Air Force (he’s later a Green Beret in the US Army).

1957
Johnnie Ray’s “Yes Tonight Josephine” hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1945 The Les Brown Orchestra with Doris Day goes to #1 in America with “Sentimental Journey.”