Monday, June 23, 2014

June 23, 2014

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
NIRVANA...Bleach
Released: 25 years ago, June 15, 1989
Highest Chart Position: #89 U.S. Billboard Album Charts
Track Highlights: About a Girl
(vinyl, CD, Allmusic review)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JUNE 23
Frank Funaro of Cracker is 56; Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth is 52; KT Tunstall is 39;

ON THIS DATE
1975 Alice Cooper falls off the stage in Vancouver and suffered 6 broken ribs
2005 Four people are stabbed, one fatally, at a Corrosion of Conformity concert in Tampa, Florida. A few days later Michael John Pyne is charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery and aggravated assault
2010 Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers has a liver transplant in Jacksonville, Florida
2013  Blues great Bobby "Blue" Bland died in Germantown, Tennessee.  Bland was 83


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