Hair Band History (June 30th)

June 1990: "Exclusive! At Home With Poison" was the headline on the cover of Metal Revolution Magazine. By this time, Bret, Bobby, Rikki and C.C. had all bought mansions, but five years earlier? Unless you were there, we can only imagine 🙃

June 1984: After an 11-week run on the US rock singles chart, Scorpions power ballad "Still Loving You" was issued to US Top 40 radio. "It's a story about a love affair, where they recognized it may be over, but let's try again." -Rudolf Schenker. Billboard Magazine ad - June 30, 1984

June 1989: Two years after it was released, Guns N' Roses' debut album "Appetite For Destruction" was locked in to the collective metal conciousness and so another single was issued with "Nightrain", a tribute to a certain cheap wine. Cheers! Release information source: [US] R&R radio trade publication ad - June 30, 1989.

June 30, 1992: Norwegian hard rockers TNT released their fifth studio album "Realized Fantasies" in North America (May 20th in Europe and Japan) featuring singles "Rain" and "Lionheart". Promotion of the record by their label was lacking and the band took a break until 1997. Release date source: [US] The Hard Report radio trade publication - June 19, 1992.

Happy Birthday to guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen (June 30, 1963).

Happy Birthday to Helix singer Brian Vollmer (June 30, 1955).

Happy Birthday to Killer Dwarfs singer Russ "Dwarf" Graham. (June 30, 1960).

Over a year after the release of "Pyromania", the US needed more from Def Leppard, so a remix of "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" from the band's previous album "High N' Dry" was issued in the US, peaking at No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 30, 1984.

June 1984: Formed three years earlier in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the unofficial honeymoon capital of the world, the self-titled debut album from Canadian rockers Honeymoon Suite was just hitting record stores in their home country. RPM Canadian radio trade publication ad - June 30, 1984

June 30, 1988: With support from Great White, Whitesnake played the first of two shows at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Southern California, one of the first US dates following the band's recent tour of Japan. "Cheering the band on in the audience were Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, Bryan Jay of Keel and--on a break from the 'Monsters of Rock' tour--Don Dokken and Jeff Pilson of Dokken." -Press Release

June 30, 1984: Issued a few weeks earlier, Twisted Sister's "Stay Hungry" album was on the rise in the UK and frontman Dee Snider was featured in Sounds Magazine... "MY FAMILY invented this dance called 'The Worm'..." 🙃