1968 - Not to be outdone by the Beatles, the Beach Boys began an 18-date tour with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. After The Beach Boys, the second half of the concert featured the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, lectured the audience on "spiritual regeneration." The reaction was so negative, more than half of the remaining tour dates were cancelled.
1969 - Sly and the Family Stone release Stand! Stand! is the pinnacle of Sly & the Family Stone's early work, a record that represents a culmination of the group's musical vision and accomplishment: Astounding funk, effervescent irresistible melodies, psychedelicized guitars, and deep rhythms. Add to this a sharpened sense of pop songcraft, elastic band interplay, and a flowering of Sly's social consciousness that are exemplified on the rousing call to arms of "Stand!" to the unification anthem "Everyday People" to the unstoppable "I Want to Take You Higher." As a result, Stand! winds up infectious and informative, invigorating and thought-provoking -- stimulating in every sense of the word.
1976 - Paul McCartney's Wings Over America Tour opened in Fort Worth, Texas. It was his first U.S. concert appearance in a decade. Those tour would go on to form the triple-album set that bore the tour’s title. The tour and album would feature a combination of hits from the Wings era, (also "Maybe I'm Amazed" from McCartney) and Beatles songs that audiences had most likely never heard performed live before. The tour would land in Denver June 7th at McNichols Arena. Were you there?
1986 - Propelled by a memorable video where lookalike models vamp the song, Robert Palmer's "Addicted To Love" hits #1. The song was originally conceived as a duet with Chaka Kahn until her label, Warner Bros., refused to let her sing on the track, forcing Palmer to re-record the high notes himself.
2019 - Vampire Weekend released their fourth studio album, Father of the Bride. After reaching peak musical and lyrical density on Modern Vampires of the City, they're reborn with a West Coast perspective and pace on Father of the Bride, giving all 18 of its songs more room for their novelistic detail and surprising juxtapositions. The band fuses country, electro, folk, R&B, and pop is equally rustic and plastic (term of endearment here)..
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American folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger was born on this day in 1919. Perhaps no single person in the 20th century did more to preserve, broadcast, and redistribute folk music than Pete Seeger, whose passion for politics, the environment, and humanity earned him both ardent fans and vocal enemies ever since he first began performing in the late '30s. His battle against injustice led to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era, celebrated during the turbulent '60s, and welcomed at union rallies throughout his life. His tireless efforts regarding global concerns such as environmentalism, population growth, and racial equality earned him the respect and friendship of such political heroes as Martin Luther King, Jr., Woody Guthrie, and Cesar Chavez, and the generations of children who first learned to sing and clap to Seeger's Folkways recordings must number in the millions. Rising above all of Seeger's political ideals and his passion for authentic folk music was his clear voice and chiming banjo, both of which sang out with a clarity that rang true.
James Brown was born today in 1933."Soul Brother Number One," "The Godfather of Soul," "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," "Mr. Dynamite" -- those are mighty titles, but no one can question that James Brown earned them more than any other performer. Other singers were more popular, others were equally skilled, but few other musicians were so influential over the course of popular music. And no other musician put on a more exciting, exhilarating stage show: Brown's performances were marvels of athletic stamina and split-second timing. Through the gospel-impassioned fury of his vocals and the complex polyrhythms of his beats, Brown was a crucial midwife in not just one, but two revolutions in American music; he was one of the figures most responsible for turning R&B into soul and he was, most would agree, the one figure most responsible for transforming soul music into funk. Fittingly, his music became even more influential as it aged, since his voice and rhythms were sampled on innumerable hip-hop recordings, and critics belatedly hailed his innovations as among the most important in all of rock or R&B. (Photo by Getty Images)
David Ball (Dave Ball) is 65. He's half of the duo Soft Cell who had the 1981 hit 'Tainted Love', (an obscure 1965 northern soul track originally released by Gloria Jones, the girlfriend of Marc Bolan).
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