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Today in music - Bob graduates, Dee Dee checks out

Posted at 8:29 AM on June 5, 2009 by Jim McGuinn

1946 - Fred Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 63.
1947 - Singer Laurie Anderson is 62.
1956 - Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs) is 53.
1956 - Kenny G still tortures us at 53
1961 - Teri Nunn takes our breath away at 48

1956 - Elvis Presley went on the "Milton Berle TV Show" doing his hip-gyrating act. From then on, cameras would only show him from the waist up.
1959 - Bob Dylan graduated from high school in Hibbing, Minn. The name on his diploma was Robert Zimmerman. He'd been the leader of a high school band called the Golden Chords.
1974 - Sly Stone married Kathy Silva during a Sly and the Family Stone concert in New York.
1977 - Alice Cooper's pet boa constrictor was bitten by a rat it was trying to eat for breakfast. The snake died. Cooper held a public audition a week later to find a replacement for the snake, which was featured in his act.
1979 - Bluesman Muddy Waters, age 64, married Marva Jean Brooks on her 25th birthday.
1983 - U2 performed a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colo. The concert was recorded as released as an EP and a video cassette, both called "Under A Blood Red Sky." Footage was also used in the "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" video.
1993 - country star Conway Twitty died of a ruptured blood vessel in his stomach after completing a show in Branson, Mo. He was 59.
1995 - guitarist Kelley Deal of The Breeders pleaded guilty to drug possession charges. She was sentenced to treatment in a rehabilitation center.
1996 - an arrest warrant was issue for Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli after he disappeared from a drug treatment facility in Los Angeles. He turned up at another treatment center six days later.
2002, guitarist Dee Dee Ramone of The Ramones was found dead at his home in Los Angeles. He was 50.

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