The Answer to this Week’s Question: Janis Joplin performs her first concert in the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco: June 10, 1966. Be sure to check out other cool things that happened each week on “This Week In Rock!”
Born this Week in Rock History
Howlin’ Wolf: June 10, 1910 (Blues Singer-Songwriter & Guitarist)
Joao Gilberto: June 10, 1931 (Brazilian Bossa Nova guitarist)
Frank Beard: June 11, 1949 (ZZ Top, drums)
“Harmonica George Robinson: June 12, 1934 (Blues harmonica player)
Armando “Chick” Corea: June 12, 1941 (Jazz pianist/composer)
Lyn Collins: June 12, 1948 (Soul Singer)
Brad Delp: June 12, 1951 (Boston, lead vocals and guitar)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd: June 12, 1977 (Blues guitarist/singer)
Doc Cheatham: June 13, 1905 (Jazz trumpeter and bandleader)
James Carr: June 13, 1942 (R&B front man)
Erroll Garner: June 15, 1923 (Jazz Pianist)
Kai Eckhardt: June 15, 1961 (Bassist, Garaj Mahal/freelance)
Waylon Jennings: June 15, 1937 (Country Singer-Songwriter & Guitarist)
Died this Week in Rock History
Ray Charles: June 10, 2004 (Soul Singer-Songwriter & Pianist)
Ornette Coleman: June 11, 2015 (Jazz saxophonist)
Clyde McPhatter: June 13, 1972 (The Drifters, lead vocals)
Wynonie Harris: June 14, 1969 (Blues Shouter & R&B Vocalist)
Rory Gallagher: June 14, 1995 (Taste, guitar and vocals)
Wes Montgomery: June 15, 1968 (Jazz guitarist)
Ella Fitzgerald: June 15, 1996 (Jazz Vocalist)
Music releases and the top of the charts…
Stevie Wonder releases “I Was Made to Love Her: June 10, 1966
The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It, Black” hits #1: June 11, 1966
David Bowie, “Space Oddity” was released: June 11, 1969
The Beatles’ “Ballad of John & Yoko” reaches #1 in UK: June 11, 1969
“Play That Funky Music” is released: June 11, 1976
Bo Diddley, Go Bo Diddley was released: June 12, 1959
“Chuck Berry is On Top” is released: June 12, 1959
Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On” enters the country charts: June 12, 1957
The Beatles’ LP Let It Be hits #1; the song “The Long and Winding Road” does as well: June 13, 1970
Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” hits #1: June 13, 1980
George Harrison’s “This is Love: is released: June 13, 1988
The Beatles’ “Today and Yesterday” gets released: June 15, 1966
“Best of the Guess Who” is awarded Gold: June 15, 1971
This week in rock History
The Rolling Stones record “It’s All Over Now,” “I Can’t Be Satisfied,” and “Time Is On My Side” at Chess studios; the Stones get to meet Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy and Chuck Berry: June 10, 1964
Janis Joplin performs her first concert in the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco: June 10, 1966
Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, and The Byrds are featured artists at California’s Magic Mountain Music Festival: June 10, 1967
The Rolling Stones hold an attention-grabbing “press conference” in the middle of Michigan Avenue in Chicago, just outside Chess Studios; it’s promptly broken up by the local police: June 11, 1964
Buckingham Palace announces that the Beatles are to be awarded the MBE (Members of the British Empire) award by Queen Elizabeth II, an award traditionally only presented to upper-crust members of the community. Several other members immediately return their awards, complaining that they have become “debased”: June 11, 1965
European radio is abuzz with rumors that Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, has been killed in an auto accident days earlier. In fact, guitarist Pete Townshend was in the wreck, but survived with minor injuries: June 11, 1966
Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones as the new guitarist of the Rolling Stones: June 12, 1969
Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and Gary “US” Bonds appeared at a rally in Central Park for nuclear disarmament. Over 450,000 people were present: June 12, 1982
John Lennon makes his last ever television appearance. He appeared on “Salute to Sir Lew Grade” and played the songs “Imagine” and “Slippin and Slidin’”: June 13, 1975
One of the concerts that comprised Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive is performed at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco: June 13, 1975
Rod Stewart becomes a star in the US after the Jeff Beck Group, for which he sings lead, opens at New York’s Fillmore East. The 23-year-old Stewart is still so new to the stage that he hides behind a stack of speakers during the first song: June 14, 1968
Derek and the Dominos step on the stage for the first time under that name as they play the Lyceum in London: June 14, 1970
June 14, 2002: Mick Jagger is knighted.
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers loses its main guitarist, Peter Green, who quits to form a new band called Fleetwood Mac: June 15, 1966
“Ray Charles makes music history when “My World” hits the Billboard Hot 200, marking the sixth decade he had a charted album”: June 15, 1993
After not playing for seven years, Santana releases “Supernatural” which had a lot of chart-topping hits: June 15, 1999
Bob Dylan records “Like a Rolling Stone” June 16, 1965
The film The Blues Brothers premieres in Chicago: June 16, 1980