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June 24, 2008

A blogger who had thought it would be a good idea to leak some finished tracks from Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy receives a visit from the FBI and a cease-and-desist letter.

June 25, 2009

Fifty-year-old Michael Jackson is found dead in the Los Angeles mansion he is renting. The shocking news spreads quickly through social media outlets, and Jackson is the subject of numerous tributes over the next few weeks.

June 26, 2020

At 79, Bob Dylan becomes the oldest artist to top the UK albums chart with an album of original songs when Rough And Rowdy Ways hits the top spot.

June 27, 2012

In what is probably the only case of a musician being said to cause someone’s death while performing onstage, police in Czechoslovakia arrest Randy Blythe, frontman for heavy metal band Lamb of God, for manslaughter.

2002

John Entwistle (age 57), bassist for The Who, dies in a hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, from a heart attack triggered by cocaine use.

June 28, 1975

David Bowie releases “Fame,” featuring John Lennon on backing vocals. It become Bowie’s first #1 hit in the US.

June 29, 1984

After a failed attempt shooting a studio video for “Dancing In The Dark,” Bruce Springsteen does it live at his concert in St. Paul, Minnesota. During Clarence Clemons’ sax solo, he brings a doe-eyed, 19-year-old Courteney Cox on stage to dance with him.

June 30, 1977

Marvel Comics publishes a Kiss comic book with a vial of their blood mixed into the ink.
July 1, 2005

Luther Vandross dies at age 54 after suffering a stroke two years earlier that left him in a wheelchair.