JUNE 8: The Daily Flashback

Derek Trucks
Happy birthday, Derek Trucks!
Photograph by Andrzej Pilarczyk

1948: Milton Berle hosted the debut of “Texaco Star Theater” on NBC-TV.
1962: Skeeter Davis recorded “The End of the World.”
1974: Rick Wakeman announced he was leaving Yes.
1991: Bruce Springsteen married Patti Scialfa.
2003: Billy Joel won a Tony Award for the orchestration of his Broadway musical Movin’ Out.

BIRTHDAYS
1810: Robert Schumann
1867: Frank Lloyd Wright
1940: Nancy Sinatra
1942: Chuck Negron
1944: Boz Scaggs
1951: Tony Rice
1953: Bonnie Tyler
1954: Greg Ginn
1960: Mick Hucknall
1962: Nick Rhodes
1977: Kanye West
1979: Derek Trucks
1981: Sara Watkins

DEATHS
2017: Norro Wilson

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