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1941
Legendary jazz keyboardist/composer Chick Corea is born in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

1944
Reg Presley of The Troggs is born Reginald Maurice Ball in Andover, Hampshire, England.

1951
Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos is born Brad Carlson in Rockford, Illinois.
Cheap Trick "I Want You To Want Me" 1979

1951
Brad Delp of Boston is born in Danvers, Massachusetts. He died on March 9, 2007 of carbon monoxide poisoning. That day, the official website for the band was taken down and replaced with the statement: "We've just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll."
Boston "More Than A Feeling"

1957
Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" enters the national country & western chart. By the next week it will have made its debut on the national pop chart.
Jerry Lee Lewis "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" 1957

1959
Chess/Checker records releases Chuck Berry's Chuck Berry on Top album, and Bo Diddley's Go Go Bo Diddley.

1961
Frankie Avalon starts a 15 day tour of South America.

1965
The Rolling Stones' landmark tune, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is released.
The Rolling Stones "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

1968
Bobby Sheehan, a founding member and bassist of Blues Traveler, is born in Summit, New Jersey. He died of a drug overdose in 1999.

1972
John Lennon and Yoko Ono release Some Time In New York City, a two record set full of self-conscious politicism that Lennon later regrets.

1972
CCR's Mardi Gras LP goes gold.

1975
Almost five years after her death, Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, released in 1973, goes gold.

1977
Blues/Rock guitarslinger Kenny Wayne Shepherd is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd "Deja Voodoo" 1996

1980
Motown releases Diana Ross' Diana. It contains the songs, "Upside Down" (her first pop and R&B #1 hit in four years) and "I'm Coming Out."

1982
About 1 million people, including Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt, gather in New York to rally for nuclear disarmament.

1989
Graceland opens the Elvis Presley Autoland Museum, which contains over 20 cars owned by The King.

June 12 Birthdays

• David Rockefeller 1915
• Irwin Allen 1916
• Samuel Z. Arkoff 1918
• Uta Hagen 1919
• George H.W. Bush 1924
• Vic Damone 1928
• Anne Frank 1929
• Jim Nabors 1930
• Rona Jaffe 1932
• Robert Bower 1936
• Chick Corea 1941
• Marv Albert 1941
• Reg Presley (The Troggs) 1944
• Brad Delp (Boston) 1951
• Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) 1951
• Junior Brown 1952
• Rocky Burnette 1953
• Timothy Busfield 1957
• Jenilee Harrison 1959
• John Linnell (They Might Be Giants) 1959
• Grandmaster Dee (Whodini) 1962
• Bobby Sheehan (Blues Traveler) 1968
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd 1977
• Robyn 1979
• Wil Horneff 1979

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