Events in Music
Memory Almost Full
Jun 5 Paul McCartney releases "Memory Almost Full", in US; his fourteenth solo studio album was the first release on Starbucks' Hear Music label
Oscar Peterson Cancels Concert
Jun 8 Jazz legend Oscar Peterson forced to cancel his appearance at Carnegie Hall all-star performance (held in his honor), due to illness
- Jun 10 61st Tony Awards: "Spring Awakening" (musical) & "The Coast of Utopia" (play) win
- Jun 10 Novelty dance song "I'm a Gummy Bear" by German band Gummibär released
Glastonbury Festival
Jun 20 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, and The Who headline; other performers include The Fratellis, Amy Winehouse, Shirley Bassey, Paul Weller, and Bright Eyes
Weddings in Music
Tony Bennett
Jun 1 Legendary crooner Tony Bennett (80) weds his longtime girlfriend Susan Crow (47) in New York City
Melanie Brown
Jun 6 Spice Girl singer Melanie Brown (32) weds producer Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Jun 9 "Ugly Betty" actress Ana Ortiz (36) weds musician Noah Lebenzon at the Horned Dorset Primavera Hotel in Rincon, Puerto Rico
Rod Stewart
Jun 16 British singer Rod Stewart (62) weds model Penny Lancaster (36) in a cloistered medieval abbey at La Cervara
Divorces in Music
Nikki Sixx
Jun 27 Former Playboy playmate and Baywatch actress Donna D'Errico (38) divorces Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage
Deaths in Music
- Jun 1 Tony Thompson, American singer-songwriter in R&B group Hi-Five, dies at 31
- Jun 2 Kentaro Haneda, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger for film, anime, and video games, dies of liver cancer at 58
- Jun 4 Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter ("Cry To Me"), dies at 74
- Jun 8 Nellie Lutcher, American jazz and R&B singer, pianist, and songwriter (He's a Real Gone Guy), dies at 94
- Jun 13 Oskar Morawetz, Czech-Canadian composer (From the Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 90
- Jun 15 Richard Bell, Canadian musician (Full Tilt Boogie Band), dies of multiple myeloma at 61
- Jun 16 Pattie D'Arcy, American musical theater, session and touring vocalist (Cher), dies at 54
- Jun 17 Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)
- Jun 18 Georges Thurston, Canadian R&B and reggae musician and singer (Boule Noire), dies of cancer at 55
- Jun 18 Henry "Hank" Medress, American singer (The Tokens - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), and record producer (The Chiffons; Tony Orlando & Dawn), dies of lung cancer at 68
- Jun 19 Antonio Aguilar [Barraza], Mexican singer, producer and actor (Emiliano Zapata) who popularized the Mexican equestrian sport la charrería, dies of pneumonia at 88
- Jun 19 El Fary, Spanish singer and actor, dies at 69
- Jun 22 Derek Simpson, British cellist (Aeolian String Quartet, 1956-81; Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever), and teacher, dies at 79
- Jun 24 Natasja Saad, Danish hip hop and reggae artist, dies at 32
- Jun 25 Mahasti, Persian singer (b. 1946)
- Jun 25 Nina Vyroubova, Russian-French ballerina (Pavlova-prize 1957), dies at 86
- Jun 29 George McCorkle, American guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies of cancer at 59
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