ELTON JOHN...Empty Sky
Released: 45 years ago, June 6, 1969 (UK), January 13, 1975 (US)
Highest Chart Position: #6 U.S. Billboard Album Charts
Track Highlights: Empty Sky, Skyline Pigeon
(vinyl, CD, Allmusic review)
ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JUNE 3
Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople is 75; Suzi Quatro is 64; Kerry King of Slayer is 50; Mike Gordon of Phish is 49;
ON THIS DATE
1946 Michael Clarke of the Byrds is born in Spokane, Washington. Clarke died in 1993
1952 Billy Powell of Lynyrd Skynyrd is born in Corpus Christi, Texas. Powell died in 2009
1964 Ringo Starr of the Beatles collapses during a photo shoot and is admitted into the hospital with tonsillitis and pharyngitis
1982 Rusty Day, who was a member of the Amboy Dukes and Cactus, was shot and killed in Longwood, Florida. A band member of his used a machine gun to shoot up his house, killing Day and his son and a guest. Day was 36
2008 Indestructible by Disturbed is released
2009 Krist Novoselic of Nirvana files for the position of county clerk in Washington State's Wahkiakum County. Novoselic later withdraws
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