Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for June 12th

A girl group first! -- Yet another Beatles protest... -- We miss this drummer being in this band quite a lot actually...

6/12/1965 (55 years ago today) - The Beatles were included in The Queen's Birthday Honours List to receive the prestigious MBE: Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (given for outstanding service to the community or local 'hands on' service) -- Naturally, protests poured into Buckingham Palace with Member of Parliament and Liberal Party member Hector Dupuis famously quoting "British Royalty has put me on the same level as a bunch of vulgar numbskulls". Four months later, the boys receive their awards anyway, but not without getting high first...

6/12/1965 (55 years ago today) - The Supremes become the very first all-female recording act to score five consecutive Number One singles when "Back In My Arms Again" hits the top spot on the singles chart -- In fact, they would go on to score eleven more No. 1's(!), a totally astonishing/bad-ass achievement during the height of what was then the unstoppable British Invasion  -- Worth noting: after they break up, Diana Ross would score an additional eight Number One's as a solo artist. Amazing, honestly...

6/12/1951 - Here's a cold, hard fact of rock 'n' roll: When you replace either the lead singer or the drummer, you end up changing the entire dynamic of the band -- Happy Birthday to original Cheap Trick percussionist, the ridiculously under-appreciated Bun E. Carlos, 69 years old today. The band still sounds great these days (Rick Nielsen's son is on drums now), but we remain most fond of the Trick's vintage stuff. Remember the first time you heard this one? There really was no one else that would have pulled this off:

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"I listened once to my friends' advice/But it's not gonna happen twice...", xoxo!