On this day in 1970 the Grateful Dead release Workingmans Dead, the group's 4th studio album. It was recorded within a couple of weeks at San Francisco's Pacific High Studio. The hasty production was undertaken because the group was facing issues over charges related to the New Orleans drug bust referenced in the lyrics of Truckin' on American Beauty, the album released months after Workingmans Dead, and was grappling with the realization that Lenny Hart, the father of drummer Micky Hart, had been misappropriating money from the group's earnings.
Other NoteworthyClassic Rock events on June 14 include...
1945 Rod Argent of the Zombies and Argent born.
1947 Country Joe & the Fish lead guitarist Barry Melton born.
1949 Yes drummer Alan White born.
1963 Chris Degarmo of Queensryche born.
1965 Bob Dylan records Like a Rolling Stone.
1966 Capitol Records recalls Beatles Yesterday and Today albums with the controversial cover showing dismembered dolls.
1970 Derek & The Dominos play first concert in London..
1970 A $100,000 block long billboard goes up in Times Square promoting Grand Funk Railroad’s new album.
1971 The original Hard Rock Cafe opens in London.
1971 Emerson, Lake and Plamer release Tarkus.
1972 300 gate crashers tear gassed at Grateful Dead Tucson concert.
1974 David Bowie opens Diamond Dogs tour in Montreal.
1975 Frampton Comes Alive recorded at Winterland in San Francisco.
1976 Chicago X released.
1979 Little Feat break up (reform in 1987).
1982 Pretenders bass player Pete Farndon fired by the band.
1986 Fan stabbed to death at Ozzy Osbourne concert in Long Beach, CA. Two others suffered serious injuries.
1986 Bob Geldof named an honorary knight by Queen Elizabeth
1991 Foreigner releases Unusual Heat.
1995 Rory Gallagher dies of liver transfer complications.
2001 Charlie Daniels Museum opens in Nashville, TN.
2002 Mick Jagger knighted during Queen's Birthday Honors program.
2002 Billy Joel checks into a Connecticut alcohol rehab program.
2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame inducts Bob Seger, Jim Steinman, Gordon Lightfoot.
2013 Paul McCartney headlines Bonnaroo Festival.
2016 Trial opens in copyright suit claiming a key part of the Stairway To Heaven melody was lifted from the Spirit instrumental Taurus.
2016 Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice suffers mild stroke during European tour.
2016 Spooky Tooth, Wings veteran Henry McCullough dies at 72.
2017 Other Lynyrd Skynyrd members file suit to block Artimus Pyle from releasing "Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash" film.
2018 John Mellencamp added to Songwriters Hall Of Fame.
2021 Styx releases Crash of the Crown...
