Events in Music
- Jun 6 53rd Tony Awards: "Fosse" (musical) and "Side Man" (play) win
Music History
Jun 24 Christie’s Auction House in New York City conducts sale of 100 of Eric Clapton’s guitars to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising nearly $4.5M; "Brownie", a 1956 Fender Stratocaster used on the original recording of "Layla" sells for a then record $450,000
Glastonbury Festival
Jun 25 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Skunk Anansie, Manic Street Preachers, and R.E.M headline; other performers include Al Green, Billy Bragg, Hole, Blondie, Lenny Kravitz, and Bare Naked Ladies
Birthdays in Music
- Jun 16 Snail Mail [Linsey Jordan], American indie-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, born in Ellicott City, Maryland
Weddings in Music
- Jun 5 American baritone belter Frankie Laine (86) weds American retired real estate agent Marcia Kline (61) near San Diego, until his death in 2007
Deaths in Music
- Jun 2 Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
- Jun 5 Mel Tormé, American singer (The Velvet Fog) and composer (The Christmas Song), dies at 73
- Jun 8 James "Rosy" McHargue, American jazz clarinetist, and vocalist (Ted Weems Orchestra; The Wolverines), dies at 97
- Jun 16 (David Edward) "Screaming Lord" Sutch, English rocker ("Jack The Ripper"), and politician (founder of Official Monster Raving Loony Party), commits suicide at 58
- Jun 21 Kami [Ukyō Kamimura], Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 27
- Jun 22 Lubos Fiser, Czech composer, dies at 63
- Jun 27 Brian O'Hara, English rock musician (The Foremost), commits suicide at 57
- Jun 27 Einar Englund, Finnish composer, dies at 83
