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June, 1

  • 2000 Beach Boys principal Brian Wilson launches his official Web site with streaming audio feeds of songs from his latest double album, “Live At The Roxy Theater.”
  • 2000 Moby leads the winners of the inaugural DanceStar 2000 Awards, presented in London. The U.S. artist wins for best album of the year with “Play,” before taking the DanceStar of the year title.
  • 1999 Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn begins an aquatic quest to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. His goal is to travel on the Cumberland River from Nashville to New Orleans on a Sea-Doo in a journey of five days.
  • 1998 Stone Temple Pilots singer and sometimes solo artist Scott Weiland, who was arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin in 1995, is arrested for drug possession again in New York. Weiland, who has about $100 worth of heroin, according to police, is charged with criminal trespassing and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
  • 1997 Kenny Rogers marries his production assistant Wanda Miller at their farm in Athens, Ga. It is the fifth marriage for Rogers, 58, and the second for Miller, 30.
  • 1996 Jazz musician Don Grolnick dies at the age of 49.
  • 1992 Rod Stewart and his wife, model Rachel Hunter, have their first child, Renee, in London. Stewart has three other children.
  • 1992 Singer Natalie Cole and her husband, music producer and arranger Andre Fisher, separate after less than three years of marriage. Cole files for divorce two weeks later.
  • 1991 Temptations co-founder David Ruffin dies of an apparent drug overdose. He was 50. Ruffin was the lead singer on “My Girl,” the first No. 1 song by a male group for Motown Records.
  • 1974 John Cale, Brian Eno, Kevin Ayers and Nico record the live LP “June 1, 1974.”
  • 1971 A two-room shack in Tupelo, Miss., where Elvis Presley was born opens as a tourist attraction.
  • 1969 During their noted “bed-in” at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, John Lennon and Yoko Ono record “Give Peace a Chance” with friends Tommy and Dick Smothers, Derek Taylor, Murray the K and Timothy Leary.
  • 1964 The Rolling Stones arrive at New York’s Kennedy Airport for their first U.S. tour.
  • 1964 Dolly Parton moves to Nashville, Tenn., one day after her high school graduation.
  • 1950 Graham Russell of Air Supply is born in Nottingham, England. The group from Melbourne, Australia, has three million-selling records: “All Out of Love,” “The One That You Love” and “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.”
  • 1934 Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone) is born in Jacksonville, Fla., the great-great-great-great grandson of pioneer Daniel Boone. He records six No. 1 songs. His biggest hit is “Love Letters in the Sand,” which tops Billboard’s chart for seven weeks.