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June, 29

  • 1991 Skid Row’s “Slave to the Grind” debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s pop album chart.
  • 1986 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “There’ll Be Sad Songs (to Make You Cry),” Billy Ocean.
  • 1979 Guitarist and Little Feat founder Lowell George is found dead of a heart attack in a hotel room in Arlington, Va., at age 34. Little Feat’s best selling album is “Waiting for Columbus,” which sells more than 500,000 copies and reaches No. 18 on Billboard’s pop album chart.
  • 1978 Peter Frampton suffers a broken arm and cracked ribs in an auto wreck in the Bahamas.
  • 1975 Tim Buckley dies of a heart attack at the age of 28.
  • 1973 Ian Gillan leaves Deep Purple after a show in Japan.
  • 1961 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Quarter to Three,” Gary U.S. Bonds.
  • 1960 Evelyn “Champagne” King is born in the Bronx, N.Y. She is discovered at Sigma Studios, where she is a cleaning woman. Her biggest hit is the million-selling top 10 single “Shame” in 1978.
  • 1945 Singer Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd) is born in Belhaven, N.C. She is discovered by songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin while baby-sitting their daughter. Her biggest hit is “The Loco-Motion,” a No. 1 song in 1962.
  • 1914 Conductor Rafael Jeronym Kubelik is born.