Iluvthe80s
6-10-02, 10:08 PM
1949 ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is born in Frankston, Texas.
1969 David Bowie releases his single "Space Oddity" to cash in on this month's Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1976 AC/DC kick off their first headlining tour of Britain.
1988 Whitney Houston, Dire Straits, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Wonder, and many others appear at Wembley Stadium for the 'Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Party'.
1990 Olivia Newton-John becomes a United Nations environmental ambassador.
1993 What's Love Got to Do With It, the big-screen version of Tina Turner's autobiography, is released nationwide. Critic Roger Ebert says that the film, starring Angela Bassett as Turner, "ranks as one of the most harrowing, uncompromising showbiz biographies I've ever seen." Ike Turner complains about his portrayal as a wife-beater by Laurence Fishburne.
1969 David Bowie releases his single "Space Oddity" to cash in on this month's Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1976 AC/DC kick off their first headlining tour of Britain.
1988 Whitney Houston, Dire Straits, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Wonder, and many others appear at Wembley Stadium for the 'Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Party'.
1990 Olivia Newton-John becomes a United Nations environmental ambassador.
1993 What's Love Got to Do With It, the big-screen version of Tina Turner's autobiography, is released nationwide. Critic Roger Ebert says that the film, starring Angela Bassett as Turner, "ranks as one of the most harrowing, uncompromising showbiz biographies I've ever seen." Ike Turner complains about his portrayal as a wife-beater by Laurence Fishburne.