June 22nd

2005: Ted Nugent reached an agreement with Karen Gutowski of Dover, NH to pay $3,500 a month in child support. Nugent fathered a son with her in 1994 while married to his second wife Shemane, with whom he remains married to this day.

2002: U2 guitarist The Edge married longtime girlfriend Morleigh Steinberg in France. Steinberg was the belly dancer & choreographer for U2’s Zoo TV tour.

1992: Nirvana singer & guitarist Kurt Cobain was rushed to a hospital after a concert at King’s Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Cobain was allegedly suffering from acute stomach pains brought on by ulcers.

1990: Billy Joel began a two night stand at Yankee Stadium which drew over 103,000 people. Joel was the first rock act to perform at Yankee Stadium.

1985: Bryan Adams reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the first time with “Heaven” which spent two weeks on top of the chart.

1984: Aerosmith kicked off their reunion tour with Joe Perry and Brad Whitford back as their guitarists at the Capitol Theatre in Concord, NH. The 58 date tour was called the Back in the Saddle Tour.

1981: Mark David Chapman pled guilty to the charge of murdering John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He would later receive a sentence of 20 years to life in prison.

1975: Eric Clapton joined the Rolling Stones onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City to jam on “Sympathy for the Devil”.

1968: The Jeff Beck Group, featuring Rod Stewart as lead singer made their first U.S. appearance at New York’s Fillmore East. Stewart had such bad stage fright that he spent the entirety of the first song behind a large speaker cabinet.

Birthdays:
Todd Rundgren born in 1948