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Summer Of 1967 – June 25 That Day And This Day Is Global BEATLES Day

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26 June 2026

On 25 June 1967,  THE BEATLES went global via a live television broadcast
as part of the UK’s contribution to the Our World event. They performed
their new single ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE in the EMI studios in London.

The programme was broadcast via satellite and seen
by an audience of over 400 million in 25 countries.

Lennon‘s lyrics were deliberately simplistic to allow for wide appeal
to the show’s international audience, and captured the utopian ideals
associated with the Summer of Love of 1967.

Listen up, for once, leaders of the world.

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Summer Of 1996 – June 25 – SCREAMING TREES Released ‘DUST’ Album 30 Years Ago Today

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25 June 2026


Pulse Magazine July, 1996 📸Karen Mason

Grunge legends SCREAMING TREES (1984-2000) fronted by the late great baritone
vocalist Mark Lanegan (1964-2022) released their illustrious 7th and final LP, titled
DUST on 25 June 1996, today 30 years ago.

Kerrang Magazine selected Dust as the best album of 1996. The band toured behind
Dust for nearly two years with former Kyuss and future Queens of the Stone Age frontman
JOSH HOMME serving as a touring guitarist.

UNCUT Magazine said in retrospect: “It sounded – and still sounds – like the perfect evolution of grunge, consciously realigning that upstart music with the classic rock and psychedelia which had preceded it.”

TUTV’s first-choicer track below. Epic.

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Summer Of 1999 – June 24 ERIC CLAPTON Sells 100 Guitars

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24 June 2026

On 24 June 1999, guitar hero ERIC CLAPTON put no less than 100 of his guitars
up for auction at Christie’s in New York City to raise money for his drug rehab clinic,
the Crossroads Centre in Antigua in the Lesser Antilles.

His 1956 Fender Stratocaster named Brownie, which was used to record the electric
version of Layla, sold for a record $497,500. The auction helped raise nearly $5 million
for the clinic.

No, Eric, no more cocaine.

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Summer Of 1975 – June 23 – ALICE COOPER Goes Down

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23 June 2026

Shock rocker ALICE COOPER got badly hurt in Vancouver (Canada)
on 23 June 1975, when he fell from the stage and broke six ribs.

He fell into the photo pit in front of the podium and attempted
to continue the show but passed out and was taken to the hospital.

Vancouver was part of his Welcome To My Nightmare tour.

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Summer Of 1971 – June 22 – JONI MITCHELL Released Her Classic LP ‘BLUE’ 55 Years Ago Today

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22 June 2026

The now 82-year-old Canadian folk grandmaster JONI MITCHELL released her
4th, best known and timeless opus BLUE on 22 June 1971, today 55 years ago.

#3 in the UK, #15 in the US, #9 in Canada.

Pitchfork wrote in retrospect: “Blue is like a companion to Bob Dylan’s
Blood On The Tracks, a confessional album very much of its time that endures
on the strength of fantastic melodies and musical simplicity.”

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Summer Of 1969 – June 21 – DAVID BOWIE

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21 June 2026

On June 21, the first summer day in 1969, the late musical virtuoso
DAVID BOWIE recorded his timeless classic Space Oddity at Trident
Studios in London.

It peaked at #5 in the UK and #124 in the US. It was re-released several times.

The song launched the fictional astronaut named Major Tom. He would return later
in other songs ‘Ashes to Ashes’ (1980), ‘Hallo Spaceboy‘ (1995) and ‘Blackstar‘ (2016).

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BOB DYLAN’s Double Masterpiece ‘BLONDE ON BLONDE’ Is 60 Today

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20 June 2026

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The now 85-year-old singer-songwriter genius BOB DYLAN released one
of his solid gold masterpieces, double LP BLONDE ON BLONDE, today
60 years ago, on 20 June 1966.

It was the final album of a trilogy, the eternal troubadour recorded in
1965/1966. The other two being the classic Bringing It All Back Home
and Highway 61 Revisited.

Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album‘s songs have been described as operating on a grand scale
musically, while featuring lyrics one critic called “a unique mixture of the visionary
and the colloquial“. It was one of the first double albums in rock music.

It peaked at #9 in the US and #3 in the UK.

Rolling Stone Magazine called Blonde on Blonde: “the most mysterious, majestic
and seductive of Bob Dylan albums, not to mention the greatest. It remains the pinnacle
of Dylan’s genius. It’s his most expansive music, with nothing that resembles a folk song,
just the rock & roll laments of a vanishing American, the doomed outsider who’s given
up on ever belonging anywhere.” .

Singles.

– JUST LIKE A WOMAN –
(Live)

– RAINY DAY WOMEN #12 & 35 –
(Audio)

– I WANT YOU –
(Live)

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A compilation of pictures taken by Jerry Schatzberg (who also took the blurred photo for the front sleeve) were on the gatefold sleeve of the first vinyl pressing in 1966.

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES Released Their Post-Punk Landmark Album ‘JUJU’ Today 45 Years Ago

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19 June 2026

London‘s post-punk pioneers SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (1976–1996)
released their 4th LP, named JUJU on 19 June 1981, today 45 years ago.

Steve Severin (guitarist/producer): “Juju was the first time we’d made a “concept”
album that drew on darker elements. It wasn’t pre-planned, but, as we were writing,
we saw a definite thread running through the songs, almost a narrative to the album
as a whole”.

It was acclaimed by critics upon its release, with praise given particularly to
John McGeoch‘s unconventional guitar playing and Siouxsie‘s vocal performances.
It remains a critical favourite and is seen as a landmark album of post-punk.

Sounds (legendary British music weekly) wrote at the time: “Siouxsie’s voice
seems to have acquired a new fullness of melody with a rich, dark smoothness.
The way this unit operates is impressively cohesive, like one brain the inventive
musical talents of guitarist McGeoch, drummer Budgie and bassist Severin mesh
perfectly with Siouxsie”.

Singles.

– SPELLBOUND –

– ARABIAN KNIGHTS –

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BECK 30 Years Ago Today And ROD STEWART 50 Years Ago Today

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18 June 2026

Fab songsmith BECK (born Bek David Campbell in Los Angeles 56 years ago) released
his supreme album ODELAY on 18 June 1996, today 30 years ago. It was his 5th LP.

#16 in the US #17 in the UK.

AllMusic/Stephen Thomas Erlewine: wrote: “Odelay is
a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label
bearing an intricate, meticulous production by the Dust Bros.
Like a mosaic, all the details add up to a picture greater than
its parts”


TUTV: Unquestionably the best ever LP by the
white soul man, who definitely isn’t a loser.

Singles.

– WHERE IT’S AT –

– DEVILS HAIRCUT –

– THE NEW POLLUTION –

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Scottish rock cassanova ROD STEWART, aged 81 now, released his
7th LP, NIGHT ON THE TOWN, on 18 June 1976, today 50 years ago.

#1 in the UK, New Zealand, and Northern Europe, #2 in the US

The cover art is based on French Impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir
painting Bal Du Moulin De La Galette, with Stewart inserted in the centre in
period costume.

AllMusic: “It proves that Stewart could still stay true to
his open-hearted, ragged soul while on a big budget.”

Singles.

– TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT –

– THE KILLING OF GEORGIE –

– THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST –

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PLACEBO Released Their Kick-Ass Debut LP Today 30 Years Ago

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17 June 2026

British rock veterans PLACEBO released their kick-ass eponymous debut LP
on 17 June 1996, today 30 years ago. It featured kick-ass debut single Nancy Boy.

NME said: “Dangerous, mysterious and utterly addictive.”

The album peaked at #5 in the UK.

To celebrate the event, the band launch a Re:Created
version this Friday, June 19th. More info here.

It’ll feature new, reworked, and embellished versions of all
10 tracks from the original album plus two bonus tracks.

Placebo: “We think of this record as a director’s cut. We haven’t recreated
it from scratch. We went back to the original master tapes and brought
30 years of playing these songs live back into the record.

This project was about finally finishing the record, dragging it into the 21st century
sonically, while preserving the integrity and the spirit of the original. It’s not about
improving it, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s about completing it.

It’s a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then
and who we are now; a way of honoring that innocence, while letting the songs exist
with the scale, confidence, and energy of the band we’ve become”.

The band will play several UK and European shows to celebrate the event.

All Dates HERE.

Don’t do it, Brian, there’s a lot of work to do.

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