1948
Ian Paice, drummer for Deep Purple and Whitesnake is born.

1959
Dick Clark announces he's teaming up with veteran rock and roll package tour promoter Irvin Feld. The reason is to stage a series of Dick Clark Caravans. He announced there will be four tours each year.

1963
The first song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney makes it to the Hot 100. It's "From Me To You" as performed by Del Shannon.

1966
The Beatles perform in Tokyo, Japan before a sold-out crowd. 500 police are called in to get the crowd under control.

1967
Keith Richards is found guilty of allowing his property to be used for the smoking of marijuana and is sentenced to one year in jail and is fined. Mick Jagger is found guilty of illegal possession of pep pills and is sentenced to three months in jail.

1968
Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, is released. On the same day, the band plays aat the first-ever large scale free rock concert in London's Hyde Park. Jethro Tull, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Roy Harber are also in the show's line-up.

1969
Shorty Long drowns when his boat capsizes off Sandwich Island in Ontario, Canada. He was 29 years old.

1969
The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays its last concert together on the final day of the three-day Denver Pop Festival, which is held at Mile High Stadium.

1974
Drummer Neil Peart replaces original Rush drummer John Rustey.

1975
Elton John shows up at a concert at the Oakland Coliseum starring The Eagles and The Doobie Brothers and sings with both groups.

1978
Pop singer/songwriter Peter Frampton is injured in a car crash in the Bahamas.

1979
Little Feat's Lowell George dies of a heart attack.

1984
Bruce Springsteen kicks off his Born In The U.S.A. tour in St. Paul, Minnesota. His single, "Dancing in the Dark," peaks at #2 on the same day.

1998
George Harrison announces that he had been receiving radiation treatment for throat cancer caused by smoking. Harrison says he has been given a clean bill of health by saying, "I'm not going to die on you folks just yet."

1999
Singer/songwriter Jewel forgets the words to her song "Little Sister" from her Pieces of You album during a concert in Mountain View, California. She asks the audience if anyone has a copy of her album with the front cover. A boy in the audience pulls it out of his backpack, and holds the lyrics up for Jewel while she performs.

1999
KISS' Gene Simmons and a slew of porn stars film a music video in downtown Los Angeles for Everclear's cover of Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town." The song is part of the soundtrack to the movie, "Detroit Rock City," which follows fans who attend a KISS concert in 1978.

1999
Madonna files a $2.5 million lawsuit in New York State against the accounting firm Padell, Nadell, Fine & Weinberger & Co. for breach of contract and malpractice. The singer sued after having to pay $2 million in New York state taxes when the firm declared her a resident of California instead of New York on her 1992 returns.

2000
Vandals desecrate the graves of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines. Van Zant's casket was exposed, but not opened, while some of Gaines' ashes was spilled.

2000
Sting and his band lose simultaneous chess matches against world chess champ Garry Kasparov at New York's Times Square.

June 29 Birthdays

• George W. Goethals 1858
• William Mayo 1861
• James Van Der Zee 1886
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900
• Nelson Eddy 1901
• Frank Loesser 1910
• John Toland 1912
• Rafael Jeronym Kubelik 1914
• Ruth Warrick 1915
• Slim Pickens 1919
• Ralph Burns 1922
• Mousey Alexander 1922
• Cara Williams 1925
• Ian Bannen 1928
• Robert Evans 1930
• Stokeley Carmichael 1941
• Roger Ruskin Spear 1943
• Gary Busey 1944
• Little Eva Boyd 1945
• Richard Lewis 1947
• Fred Grandy 1948
• Ian Paice (Whitesnake) 1948
• Dan Dierdorf 1949
• Colin Hay (Men at Work) 1953
• Maria Conchita Alonso 1957
• Evelyn "Champagne" King 1960
• Sharon Lawrence 1961
• Amanda Donohoe 1962
• Steadman Pearson (Five Star) 1964

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