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June 4, 1979

Fleetwood Mac recorded the USC Trojan Marching Band at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for use in their song “Tusk,” the title track to their first album since Rumours. A film crew captures the action (including Stevie Nicks deftly twirling a baton) which is made into the video for the song.

June 5, 1968

Senator Robert Kennedy is shot three times while exiting through a kitchen at a hotel where he delivered a speech after winning the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. This event prompts David Crosby to write “Long Time Gone” and The Rolling Stones to insert the lyrics, “Who killed the Kennedys?” to their new song “Sympathy For The Devil.”

June 6, 1990

The 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be becomes the first album declared legally obscene when Federal District Judge Jose Gonzalez rules that the album violates community obscenity standards in three south Florida counties: Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach.

June 7, 1993

On his 35th birthday, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, making him, literally, an icon.

June 8, 1974

Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” goes to #1 on the Country chart. Nearly two decades later, Whitney Houston’s R&B version tops the Hot 100 and becomes one of the best-selling singles of all time.

June 9, 2017

Gene Simmons of Kiss files a trademark application for the devil horns hand gesture, which he claims he invented in 1974.

According to Simmons, he invented the gesture when he used it at a concert in 1974; he is seen using it on the cover of the 1977 Kiss album Love Gun.

Simmons is not the first musician to use the gesture: John Lennon did it on the cover of the “Yellow Submarine” single in 1966. The band Coven did it on the album art of their 1969 debut, Witchcraft, although this variation, popularised by Ronnie James Dio when he joined Black Sabbath in 1979, is with the thumb folded inward.

June 10, 2007

In the last scene of the HBO series The Sopranos, “Don’t Stop Believin'” by Journey plays on the jukebox while Tony Soprano sits at a diner. It cuts to black on the line, “Don’t Stop.”

June 11, 2002

American Idol premieres on the FOX network. A singing competition judged by three hosts, it becomes one of the most popular network reality shows and launches a number of careers, with many contestants – and not just winners – becoming stars.