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May 28, 1983

Apple’s Steve Wozniak hosts the second US Festival, intending it to be the “Super Bowl of rock.” The lineup is even more impressive than that of its 1982 predecessor, and the attendance is substantially larger. Wozniak splurges on David Bowie with two million dollars of his own money, simply because he “really loves him.”

May 29, 1992

Concerned that students are identifying with Freddie Mercury, who has recently died of AIDS, the principal at Sacred Heart School in Clifton, New Jersey, doesn’t allow 8th graders to perform the Queen song “We Are The Champions” at their graduation ceremony. When students flood the radio station Z100 with requests for the song, it is re-released as a single.

May 30, 2000

Eminem’s second major-label album, The Marshall Mathers LP, becomes the fastest-selling rap album ever when it sells 1.76 million copies in its debut week.

May 31, 1986

Genesis entered the Hot 100 with “Invisible Touch,” joining four acts by current or former members of the group on the chart.

June 1, 1969

John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded “Give Peace A Chance” to close out their “bed-in” in Montreal.

June 2, 1987

Whitney Houston’s second album, Whitney, is released. It contains four #1 hits, including the enduring “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me).”

June 3, 2016

After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxing champion and civil rights activist who was the subject of the 1975 hit “Black Superman,” dies of respiratory complications at age 74.