A pair of monumental albums had their releases on this day. On June 2,1967 the mind bogglingly groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band got its US release and established itself as the top selling album for the next six months. Eleven years later, Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town's album ended a 3 year album drought brought on by legal wrangling with his former manager. His highly anticipated follow-up to Born To Run did not disappoint. Springsteen had written close to 70 songs during the recording hiatus. Some of the ones he left off of Darkness were big songs for other artists. Because The Night became the top track of Patti Smith's career and was also a hit for the Pointers Sisters. Fire put Robert Gordon on a lot of peoples radar. Bay Area rocker Greg Kihn had a good run with Rendezvous and Southside Johnny included three Darkness leftovers on his Hearts of Stone album.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on June 2 include...
1941 Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is born.
1951 .38 Special drummer Steve Brookins born.
1964 The Rolling Stones do their first concert on US soil in Lynn, MA.
1967 Small Faces release From the Beginning.
1973 John Bonham dumps bucket of ice water on promoter Bill Graham's head during backstage argument in San Francisco.
1973 Electric Light Orchestra opens its first US concert in San Diego.
1976 Paul McCartney and Wings do largest indoor concert to date for 67,100 in Seattle Kingdome.
1978 Thin Lizzy releases Live and Dangerous.
1984 Aerosmith opens the Back in the Saddle tour in Concord, NH.
1986 Bruce Hornsby and the Range release The Way It Is
1989 48 year old Rolling Stone Bill Wyman marries 19 year old Mandy Smith.
1992 Rod Stewart marries Rachel Hunter.
1993 Aerosmith opens Get A Grip tour in Topeka.
1993 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are inducted by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1998 Jimi Hendrix BBC Sessions released.
2006 Vince Welnick of the Tubes and Grateful Dead takes his own life at 55.
2006 Jackson Browne plays Congressional campaign fund raiser for John Hall of Orleans.
2007 Jackson Browne and David Crosby do benefit for arts programs in Santa Monica public schools.
2008 Woodstock Museum opens in Bethel, NY.
2008 Bo Diddley dies.
2010 Don Henley wins suit against California senate candidate that used 2 of his songs in parodies.
2010 Paul McCartney gets the Gershwin Prize during an awards ceremony featuring performances by Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris and Jack White,
2017 Toxicology report shows Chris Cornell had multiple prescription drugs in his system when he committed suicide.
2022 Ringo Starr picks-up an honorary degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston...
