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1915
Bluesman Willie Dixon is born in Vicksburg, Miss. He is a Golden Gloves heavyweight champion in Chicago in 1936. He writes hundreds of blues songs and produces a majority of the Chicago blues records into the 1970s. His biggest pop hit is "Walking the Blues," a No. 6 song in 1955.

1935
Bluesman James Cotton is born.

1945
Deborah Harry is born in Miami. She is the lead singer of the techno-pop group Blondie from 1975-83. The group has four million-selling No. 1 singles. Its biggest hit is "Call Me," which tops the chart for six weeks and is the theme for the film American Gigolo.

1951
Fred Schneider of the B-52s is born in Georgia.

1952
Comedian/actor/writer/Blues Brother and House of Blues co-founder Dan Aykroyd is born in Ottawa, Canada.

1956
Elvis appears on "The Steve Allen Show". He is told not to dance and Allen has him sing "Hound Dog" to a real basset hound wearing tails. The next day, teenagers picket against NBC with signs reading: We Want the Real Elvis!

1957
From a front page Billboard article, "Good music may be making a comeback on the bestseller charts..but rock & roll discs continue to dominate the pop market."

1963
"She Loves You" and "I'll Get You" are recorded at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London by The Beatles. "She Loves You" will be released on August 23rd and will be the group's second U.K. #1 hit.

1964
The race was on and United Artists won as it rushed advance copies of the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack to radio stations. Capitol was getting ready to release an album with the seven songs featured in the film.

1967
After Mick Jagger's drug conviction, an editorial from the London Times' W.E. Rees-Moog reads, "It should be particular quality of British justice to ensure that Mr. Jagger is treated exactly the same as anyone else, no better and no worse. There must remain a suspicion in this case that Mr. Jagger received a more severe sentence than would have been thought proper for any purely anonymous young man.

1969
Sam Phillips sells Sun Records. The Memphis label released the first recordings of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Ike Turner, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Conway Twitty, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

1969
John Lennon and his son Julian, along with Yoko Ono and her daughter Kyoko, are injured in car crash in Scotland. John receives 17 stitches for facial injury, Yoko receives 14 stitches, and the children suffer from shock.

1970
The Casey Kasem hosted "American Top-Forty" AM radio show debuts in Boston, Philly, Detroit, St. Louis, San Bernardino, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Honolulu, and Albany.

1971
Jethro Tull's first U.S. top-10 hit, "Aqualung" goes gold.
Jethro Tull "Aqualung"

1975
David Bowie begins work on his first film role in The Man Who Fell To Earth.

1975
Captain & Tennille get their first gold record with "Love Will Keep Us Together". The album will eventually sell 2 1/2 million copies and win a Grammy for Record of the Year.

1978
Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" is released.
Foreigner "Hot Blooded"

1979
Filming is over for the movie, Carney, the first theatrical film Robbie Robertson of The Band has been involved with since The Band split up. He produced and co-wrote the script and even co-starred with Jody Foster and Gary Busey.

1981
Steppenwolf bassist Rushton Moreve, who co-wrote "Magic Carpet Ride" with John Kay, dies in a car crash at age 32.
Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride"

1987
Fleetwood Mac's Tango LP is certified platinum while Van Halen's 1984 and ZZ Top's Eliminator reach sales of 6 million.

1987
The Grateful Dead's In The Dark LP is released.

1995
Legendary DJ Wolfman Jack dies of a heart attack at age 57 at his home in Belvidere, North Carolina.

1999
Blues Traveler frontman John Popper checks into a Los Angeles hospital complaining of chest pains. An angioplasty is performed, and the band's appearances for the month are postponed. He is released from the hospital four days later.

June 28 Birthdays

• Gottfried Von Leibniz 1649
• George Sand 1804 - Author Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant
• Cecil Rhodes 1854
• Louis Bleriot 1872 - Aviator, first to fly an airplane across the English Channel
• Susan Glapell 1882
• James M. Cain 1892
• Thomas Andrew Dorsey 1899 - Musician, "Father of Gospel Music", pianist, composed more than 1,000 gospel songs
• Charles Laughton 1899 - Actor ("Captain Kidd")
• Myron Cohen 1902 - Comedian, actor ("When Nature Calls")
• William Wyler 1902 - Director
• Estee Lauder 1908 - Cosmetics company founder
• Willie Dixon 1915 - Musician (Big Three Trio)
• Olivia DeHavilland 1916 - Actress ("The Heiress", "Gone with the Wind")
• Farley Granger (Farley Earle II) 1925 - Actor ("The Purple Heart")
• Bobby Day (Byrd) 1930 - Singer ("Rockin' Robin')
• Leslie Caron 1931 - Actress ("Lili", "Gigi", "An American in Paris")
• Jamie Farr 1934 - Actor ("M*A*S*H")
• Jean Marsh 1934 - Actress ("Frenzy")
• Claude Berri 1934 - Actor, director
• Sydney Pollack 1934 - Director
• David Prowse 1935
• James Cotton 1935
• Wally Amos, Jr. 1936 - Entrepreneur, created Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies
• Delaney Bramlett 1939 - Musician, singer (Delaney & Bonnie)
• Frank Parker (Ciccio) 1939 - Singer
• Twyla Tharp 1941
• Rod Gilbert 1941 - Hockey player
• Karen Black (Ziegler) 1942 - Actress ("The Great Gatsby")
• Geneviève Bujold 1942 - Actress ("Coma")
• Deborah Harry 1945 - Singer (Blondie)
• Harold McLinton 1947 - Football player
• Trevor Eve 1951
• Daryl Anderson 1951
• Fred Schneider 1951 - Musician (B-52's, Shake Society)
• Dan Aykroyd 1952 - Comedian, actor ("Driving Miss Daisy", "Saturday Night Live", "Ghostbusters", "The Blues Brothers")
• Pat Donovan 1953 - Football player
• Alan Ruck 1956
• Lorna Patterson 1956 - Actress ("Airplain!", "Private Benjamin")
• Lisa Blount 1957
• Carl (Frederick Carlton) Lewis 1961 - Olympic Gold Medalist
• Michelle Wright 1961
• Princess Diana (Spencer) 1961 - Princess of Wales
• Andre Brougher 1962
• Roddy Bottum 1963 - Musician (Faith No More)
• Pamela Anderson 1967 - Actress ("Baywatch"), married to Tommy Lee (Motley Crue)
• Mark Pirro 1970 - Musician (Tripping Daisy)
• Henry Simmons 1970 - Actor ("NYPD Blue")
• Claire Forlani 1972 - Actress ("J.F.K.: Reckless Youth", "The Rock")
• Liv Tyler 1977 - Model , Acress ("Armagedon", "Lord of the Rings")
• Andrew Cavarno 1992
• Stephen Cavarno 1992

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