JOHN COUGAR...John Cougar
Released: 35 years ago today, June 18, 1979
Highest Chart Position: #64 U.S. Billboard Album Charts
Track Highlights: Small Paradise, I Need A Lover
(vinyl, CD, Allmusic review)
ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JUNE 18
Sir Paul McCartney is 72; Dizzy Reed of Guns 'N' Roses is 51;
ON THIS DATE
1967 The Monterey Pop Festival ends
1977 Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is attacked and has his hands and face slashed
1987 Motley Crue is sued by a woman seeking $5,000 in damages after she claims her hearing was damaged at a Crue concert
2005 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones is hospitalized for an infection related to prostate cancer
2005 The Foo Fighters give a private, invite-only, free concert for 500 fans near Roswell, New Mexico
2006 Rivers Cuomo of Weezer marries Kyoko Ito, in Malibu, California
2007 Motley Crue initiate a $20 million lawsuit against Carl Stubner, one of their managers for damaging Crue's reputation by deliberately promoting Lee's solo projects ahead of the group’s in order to net a higher commission for himself
2008 9 songs from Guns 'N' Roses album Chinese Democracy are leaked online prompting a cease-and-desist order given by lawyers for Axl Rose
2011 Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band dies of complications from a stroke he had suffered a week earlier. Clemons was 69
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