Events in Music
Album Release
Jun 1 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" album goes gold, 2 days after its US release
Music Single
Jun 1 Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Live & Let Die"
Music Single
Jun 15 “Let’s Get It On” single released by Marvin Gaye (Billboard R&B Song of the Year, 1973; No. 4 overall)
Music Recording
Jun 17 Dolly Parton records her song "I Will Always Love You" (later a huge hit for Whitney Houston) for RCA in Nashville
- Jun 22 George Harrison releases his fourth studio album "Living in the Material World" in the UK
- Jun 23 "Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances
- Jun 23 Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's musical "Sugar", a musical adaptation of 1959 film "Some Like It Hot" starring Robert Morse, Tony Roberts, and Elaine Joyce, closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 506 performances
- Jun 26 London production of musical "Grease" premieres
Hall of Fame
Jun 28 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected
Birthdays in Music
- Jun 5 Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish progressive rock songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist (Pain of Salvation; The Flower Kings), born in Eskilstuna, Sweden
- Jun 7 Nihad Hrustanbegović, Bosnian-Dutch concert and jazz accordionist, and composer, born in Bijeljina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
- Jun 10 Faith Evans, American singer-songwriter, born in Lakeland, Florida
- Jun 13 Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer and actress, born in Sulejówek, Poland
- Jun 13 Ville Laihiala, Finnish heavy metal singer (Sentenced, Poisonblack), born in Oulu, Finland
- Jun 14 Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian singer
- Jun 20 Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
- Jun 23 Marie N, Latvian singer
- Jun 26 Amen [Jussi Antero Sydänmaa], Finnish musician (Lordi), born in Espoo, Finland
- Jun 26 Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer (Redneck Woman), born in Pocahontas, Illinois
- Jun 26 Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor and bandleader (Cochise), born in Szczecinek, Poland
Deaths in Music
- Jun 8 Eino Linnala, Finnish composer, pedagogue, and musicologist dies at 76
- Jun 13 Alvin Derold Etler, American oboist, and composer, dies at 60
- Jun 13 Frantisek Suchy, Czech composer and folk song collector, dies at 82
- Jun 18 Fritz Mahler, Austrian composer, dies at 71
- Jun 22 Jacques Wolfe, Romanian-American composer, dies at 77
- Jun 26 Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59
- Jun 29 Tin-Tan [Germán Valdés], Mexican actor, singer and comedian (Spanish dubbing of The Jungle Book, The Aristocats), dies from cancer at 57
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