History Highlight:

Lana Del Rey was born today in 1985, making her 33 today. Del Rey's breakthrough came after the viral success of her single "Video Games" in 2011, and her major label debut Born to Die (2012) gave her her first top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Summertime Sadness". She has since released the albums Ultraviolence (2014), Honeymoon (2015), and Lust for Life (2017). She has received nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for both Paradise and Lust for Life.

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1966 - After a North American tour, The Rolling Stones sued 14 hotels over a booking ban in New York, claiming that the ban was violating civil rights laws.

1966 - Jimmy Page made his live debut with The Yardbirds at the Marquee Club, London. The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top five of Rolling Stone's 100 Top Guitarists list (Clapton at No. 2, Page at No. 3, and Beck at No. 5).

1966 - Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded a new John Lennon song "She Said She Said". The song was reportedly based on a bizarre conversation that Lennon had with Peter Fonda.

1967 - It was the Summer of Love: There was a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park celebrating the Summer Solstice. The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service all performed.

1975 - Captain and Tennille started a four week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with the Neil Sedaka song "Love Will Keep Us Together".

1975 - Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple to form his own group Rainbow.

1990 - Rock pioneer Little Richard received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2000 - 39-year-old Karen McNeil who claimed she was the wife of Axl Rose and that she communicated with him telepathically was jailed for one year for stalking the singer.

2001 - John Lee Hooker, American blues singer and guitarist, died in his sleep at age 83. Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'", "Crawling King Snake", "Dimples", "Boom Boom", and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". Despite being illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist and often employed an improvisational style in his music. Fun fact: He appeared and sang in the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers".

2011 - People magazine reported that 75-year-old Glen Campbell had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

2015 - Apple Music reversed its payment policy, a day after Taylor Swift said she was refusing to allow the company to stream her latest album 1989. In an open letter to Apple, Swift said she was withholding the record as she was unhappy with the three-month free trial offered to subscribers, saying "We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."

2016 - Trumpeter Wayne Jackson, who formed the Memphis Horns duo with saxophonist Andrew Love, died of congestive heart failure at the age of 74. Jackson and Love played together on 52 No. 1 songs, supporting Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Otis Redding, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Peter Gabriel and the Doobie Brothers.

Birthdays:

Ray Davies, of The Kinks, is 74.

Joey Molland, singer and guitarist for Badfinger, is 71.

Guitarist Nils Lofgren (E Street Band, Crazy Horse) is 67.

Pat Sansone, multi-instrumentalist for Wilco, is 49.

Brandon Flowers (The Killers) is 37.

Lana Del Rey is 33.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, Song Facts and Wikipedia.