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FEBRUARY 26th

• 1928 Fats Domino is born.
  
  
• 1932 Johnny Cash is born.
  
  
• 1944 Mitch Ryder is born.
  
  
• 1945 Bob " Bear " Hite of Canned Heat is born.
  
  
• 1955 Billboard reports for the first time since their introduction in 1949, 45 rpm discs are outselling the old standard 78. Another change in the industry is also noted. On some New York City jukeboxes, it now costs ten cents instead of five cents to play a record.
  
  
• 1955 LaVern Baker appeals to Congress in a letter to Michigan Representative Charles Digges Jr., to revise the Copyright Act of 1909 so recording artists can be protected against "note-for-note copying" of all ready recorded R&B tunes and arrangements by white artists and arrangers.
  
  
• 1966 London guitarist Jimmy Page, who has all ready played on some Kinks records, releases his first solo single, "She Just Satisfies." Page will go on to join the Yardbirds and become a founding member of Led Zeppelin.
  
  
• 1966 The Rolling Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown" is released.
  
  
• 1966 The Temptations' "Get Ready" enters the Hot 100. It peaks at #29 on the pop chart and goes to Number One on the R&B.
  
  
• 1970 The Beatles' album " Hey Jude," consisting of singles previously unavailable on a record, is released in the U.S.
  
  
• 1977 The Eagles' "Hotel California" is released.
  
  
• 1979 In London, the Sex Pistols court case, in which they and their manager Malcolm McLaren try to divy up the band's earnings, it is revealed only 30,000 pounds are left of the bands gross of 800,000 pounds.
  
  
• 1985 The 1984 Grammy Awards are awarded. Tina Turner's " What's Love Got To Do With It " wins Grammys for Best Record and Song while Cyndi Lauper wins Best New Artit.
  
  
• 1987 Capitol Records releases the first 4 Beatles albums on CD.
  
  
• 1997 The Grammys were held at New York's Madison Square Garden with host Ellen DeGeneres. The big winners were Eric Clapton and The Beatles. Clapton won 3 awards, all for the song " Change The World. " He won Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Male Pop Vocal. The Beatles won Best Pop Performance by a duo or group for " Free As A Bird " and they also won Best Music Video Short as well as Best Music Video Long for " Free As a Bird." Bruce Springsteen won the Best Contemporary Folk LP award for "The Ghost of Tom Joad."

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awesome look back tj for us older one's this is very cool

[TJ]

February 27th

• 1954 Neal Schon of Journey is born.
  1956 Little Richard's first Number One R&B hit, "Slippin' and Slidin'," backed with "Long Tall Sally," is released on Specialty.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1957 Johnny Van Zandt is born.
  
  
• 1967 In London, Pink Floyd record their first single, "Arnold Layne," which will top the U.K. charts but won't do a thing in the U.S.
  
  
• 1970 Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a show in Oklahoma City.
  
  
• 1974 Joni Mitchell has her biggest album with "Court and Spark" (#2), which turns gold on this date. The highest charting singles are "Help Me" (#7) and "Free Man in Paris" (#22).
  
  
• 1977 Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards' Toronto hotel suite while he is asleep and seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine and narcotics paraphenalia. Richards is arrested, charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic and possession of cocaine. He is released on $25,000 bail. Trial is set for October. With Richards previous arrests for various problems, fans and associates of the Rolling Stones fear this will the one that will bring an end to the 15 year old band.
  
  
• 1980 The 22nd Annual Grammy Award winners for
  1979 are announced. The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes" wins both Record and Song of the Year. Billy Joel's "52nd Street" wins both Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
  
  
• 1981 The Police receive a gold record for "Zenyatta Mondatta," their third LP and their most blatantly commercial. The first hit off the album is " Da Doo Doo Doo, Da Da Da Da."
  
  
• 1990 Time Magazine quotes Milli Vanilli "singer" Rob Pilatus as saying, "musically, we're more talented than any Bob Dylan or Paul McCartney. Mick Jagger can't produce a sound. I'm the new Elvis."
  
  
• 1991 Singer James Brown is granted an early parole and set free in Columbia, SC after serving time for leading police on a high speed chase through two states.

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[TJ]

February 28th

• 1942
  Brian Jones
  ,
  guitar player for the Rolling Stones, is born.
  
  
• 1943
  Guitarist Donnie Iris is born.
  
  
• 1962
  New York City's top rock & roll radio station, WINS, switches formats from rock & roll to "pretty music" and changes its call letters back to its originals ones, WHN. A station spokesman says top DJ Murray the K will program his shows according to the new format. After several months, the station goes back to rock & roll Top Forty programming.
  
  
• 1966
  CBS Labs develops a metal disc that reproduces motion pictures through a television set.
  
  
• 1966
  Liverpool's Cavern Club, where the Beatles rose to fame, closes.
  
  
• 1968
  Frankie Lymon, who with the Teenagers, when he was 13 years old, made it to Number One with "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" is found dead of a heroin overdose. He was 25 years old.
  
  
• 1970
  Led Zeppelin performs in Copenhagen under the pseudonym Nobs, because of a threat of suit by Count Evan von Zeppelin, a relative of the airship designer Ferdinand, if the band play under the name Zeppelin in Denmark.
  
  
• 1974
  Bobby Bloom, whose "Montego Bay" was in the pop Top Ten in 1970, shoots himself to death in West Hollywood. He was 28 years old.
  
  
• 1979
  Everybody's favorite talking horse, Mr. Ed, died.
  
  
• 1984
  The 1983 Grammy Award winners are announced in ceremonies at the Shrine Auditorium with host John Denver. Michael Jackson wins 8 awards, including Best Album for "Thriller" and Best Record for "Beat It" (remember Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo!). The Police's "Every Breath You Take" wins Best Song and Culture Club wins Best New Artist.
  
  
• 1996
  The 1995 Grammy Award winners are announced. Alanis Morissette wins four Grammys including Best Album for "Jagged Little Pill." Hootie and the Blowfish are named Best New Artist.

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March 1st

[/li][li]1944
Roger Daltrey of the Who is born.



[/li][li]1957
Chess Records releases Chuck Berry's "School Days." Also, Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" debuts in U.K. where it will make it to #3.

[/li][li]1965
Petula Clark's first U.S. hit, " Downtown " is awarded a gold record.

[/li][li]1966
In Liverpool, over 100 youths barricade themselves inside the recently closed Cavern Club, where the Beatles began. They are upset about the club closing due to bankruptcy and at the same time keep the police out of the club.

[/li][li]1969
At Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for alledgedly exposing his penis during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkeness. He is found guilty in March 1970 of indecent exposure and profanity. His sentence totaling eight months hard labor and a $500 fine, is on appeal when Morrison dies in Paris in 1971.

[/li][li]1973
The New York Joffrey Ballet gives its first performance of its "Deuce Coupe Ballet," which is set entirely to Beach Boys music.

[/li][li]1975
Winners of the 17th annual Grammy Awards for 1974 are announced during ceremonies at the Hollywood Palladium. Olivia Newton John wins Record of the Year for "I Honestly Love You" (which also earns her Best Female Pop Vocal Performance). Album of the Year is Stevie Wonder's "Fulfillingness' First Finale" (he wins Best Male Pop Vocal Performance). Song of the Year is " The Way We Were."

[/li][li]1977
In Santa Monica, California, Sara Lowndes Dylan files for divorce from her husband of eleven years, Bob Dylan. The divorce is granted in June and she is given custody of their 5 kids and possession of their million-dollar home. Sara was the subject of such songs as "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," "Lay Lady Lay" and "Sara."

[/li][li]1977
Manfred Mann gets their first gold record for "Blinded by the Light," one of the several Bruce Springsteen songs covered the group. The song hit Number One last month, 13 years after Mann's first Number One song, " Do Wah Diddy Diddy."

[/li][li]1980
New York rock poet and singer Patti Smith marries veteran Detroit underground rocker and one-time MC5 member Fred " Sonic " Smith in Detriot.

[/li][li]1982
Swan Song Records releases the soundtrack of the film Death Wish II, written and produced by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. It's Page's first solo LP.

[/li][li]1995
The 1994 Grammy winners are announced. Sheryl Crow wins Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Song for "All I Wanna Do" while Tony Bennett's "Unplugged" LP wins Best Album.

[/li][li]1995
R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry has to leave the stage during a Switzerland concert after having a brain aneurysm.

[/li][li]2000
Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell dies of an apparent brain aneurysm. He was 38.[/list][/i][/color][/size][/center]

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:)cool tj had my fill of rock n roll news from days gone by thank you 8-)awesome thread

[TJ]

You're Very Welcome Bud!

March 2nd

• 1944
  Lou Reed is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1949
  Eddie Money is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1962
  Jon Bon Jovi is born.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1963
  Chubby Checker hosts " The Limbo Party " at San Francisco's Cow Palace. His special guests include Marvin Gaye, the Four Seasons, the Crystals, Lou Christie, Dick & Dee Dee, Paul & Paula and Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass.
  
  
• 1964
  The Beatles " Twist and Shout " backed with
  " There's a Place" is released in the U.S. on Tollie Records, the fourth label to release a Beatle record in America. Also on this day, the Beatles start working on their first feature-length movie, " A Hard Days Night."
  
  
• 1967
  Winners of the ninth annual Grammy Awards for 1966 are announced. Record of the Year is Frank Sinatra's " Stangers in the Night." " Sinatra, a Man and His Music " is tabbed Album of the Year and Song of the Year is John Lennon and Paul McCartney's " Michelle."
  
  
• 1968
  Blue Cheer's " Summertime Blues " is released as is Simon & Garfunkel's " Scarborough Fair."
  
  
• 1974
  Stevie Wonder takes home five Grammy Awards during ceremonies held at the Hollywood Palladium. The singer is honored for Album of the Year ( " Innervisions " ), Best Pop Vocal Performance ( " You Are the Sunshine of My Life " ), Best R&B Song ( " Superstition " ), Best R&B Vocal Performance ( " Superstition " ) & Best Engineered Recording ( " Innervisions " ). Says Wonder on his five trips up to the podium: " I would like to thank you all for making this the sunshine of my life tonight."
  
  
• 1975
  After pulling over a late-model Lincoln Continental for allegedly running a red light, the Los Angeles Police detect the smell of marijuana & arrest Linda McCartney for having six to eight ounces of the drug in her pocketbook. Paul was driving but is not charged with personal possession, unlike Linda.
  
  
• 1988
  In Grammy news: U2's " The Joshua Tree " wins Best Album, while Paul Simon's " Graceland " wins Best Record. Jody Watley wins Best New Artist.
  
  
• 1999
  Singer Dusty Springfield dies at the age of 59 just 11 days before her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She had been battling cancer.
  
  
• 1999
  Bob Dylan is the opening performer at the House Of Blues at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. During the encore, Dylan performs with U2's Bono for a rousing rendition of " Knockin' On Heaven's Door."

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:)it's like reading the rock n roll papers.love this all this info is wonderful

[TJ]

March 3rd

• 1957
  The head of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago (the largest in the world), Samuel Cardinal Strich, bans rock & roll from Catholic schools and " recreations" in his district. He cites the " tribal rhythms " & " encouragement to behave in a hedonistic manner." Chicago record sellers report no drop in sales of hedonism-encouraging records.
  
  
• 1965
  Motown Records releases the Miracles' " Ooo Baby Baby." It goes to #13 on the Hot 100. On the same day, the Rolling Stones appear on " Shindig!" and perform " Suzie Q." Also on the show are Freddie & the Dreamers, Little Eva and Jay and the Americans.
  
  
• 1966
  In Los Angeles, singer-guitarist Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay form Buffalo Springfield. About a year later the group's self-titled album is released and it would yield the biggest hit " For What it's Worth."
  
  
  
  
• 1966
  The Rolling Stones enter RCA's Hollywood Studios in Los Angeles to record tracks for the album, " Aftermath."
  
  
• 1967
  In Ottawa the Animals refuse to play a scheduled concert unless they are paid in advance. Over 3,000 youths in the audience riot; causing $5,000 in damages.
  
  
• 1967
  The new Jeff Beck group, featuring Rod Stewart, bass player Ron Wood and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, makes its stage debut in London.
  
  
• 1972
  Paul Gadd, a.k.a. Gary Glitter, has the first of his three number one U.K. hits, " Rock and Roll Part 2." The song makes it to #7 in the U.S. later in the year.
  
  
• 1972
  Harry Nilsson receives a gold record for " Nilsson Schmilsson," the best selling album of his career. The LP contains three hits: " Without You," " Jump into the Fire " and " Coconut. "
  
  
• 1973
  The Grammy Awards for 1972 are announced during ceremonies at the Tennessee Theatre in Nashville. Among the winners are " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " by Roberta Flack, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Album of the Year is " The Concert for Bangla Desh " and America is named Best New Artist.
  
  
• 1980
  The auction house Sotheby Park-Bernet in London auctions off a Rivera Hotel, Las Vegas paper napkin signed by Elvis Presley for 500 pounds. Also auctioned off are four American dollar bills signed by the Beatles for 220 pounds & a batch of Rolling Stones letters & autographs, also for 220 pounds.
  
  
• 1982
  The re-formed Mammas and the Pappas, with original members John Phillips & Denny Doherty joined by Phillips' daughter MacKenzie and Spanky McFarlane of Spanky and Our Gang, play the first show of their brief reunion tour. Although Mama Cass Elliot has been dead for almost ten years, they do not change the lyrics to " Creeque Alley " which goes " No one's getting fat except Mama Cass."
  
  
• 1994
  Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma in Italy after taking a combination of valium & champagne.
  
  
• 1995
  R.E.M.'s drummer Bill Berry undergoes surgery to halt bleeding from a brain aneurysm.

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March 4th

• 1948
  Chris Squire, bass player for Yes, is born.
  
  
• 1951
  Chris Rea is born.
  
  
• 1966
  The London newspaper, " The Evening Standard " publishes an interview with John Lennon of the Beatles in which he remarks, " Christianity will go. It will vanish & shrink. I needn't argue that. I'm right & will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus right now." This quote causes quite a storm of international protest & results in a worldwide series of Beatles records burnings.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1967
  The " New Musical Express " reports the Spencer Davis Group has announced Stevie Winwood & his brother Muff will leave the band after an April 2 show. The 18 year old had been with the group for four years & will go on to co-found Traffic.
  
  
• 1970
  Janis Joplin is fined $200 for using obscene language onstage in Tampa, Fla.
  
  
• 1971
  On the same day that the Rolling Stones announce their upcoming move to France, they also start a ten day tour of the U.K.
  
  
• 1972
  A great week for Badfinger who receive a gold record for " Day after Day " one day after Harry Nillson gets a gold disc for his cover of their song " Without You."
  
  
• 1973
  Pink Floyd, promoting their new album,
  " The Dark Side of the Moon," start a three week tour of the U.S. in Madison, Wisconsin.
  
  
• 1977
  The Rolling Stones play the first of two concerts at El Mocambo, a small club in Toronto.
  
  
• 1978
  " Too Much, Too Little, Too Late " by Johnny Mathis & Denice Williams, enters the soul chart where it hits Number One next month & stays there for four weeks.
  
  
• 1982
  Rolling Stone reports Frank Zappa's son Dweezil & daughter Moon Unit have formed a band called Fred Zeppelin. Their first single will be called " My Mother is a Space Cadet."
  
  
• 1986
  Richard Manuel of The Band dies by hanging. He was 41 years old.
  
  
• 1999
  Cher has her first number one Billboard single in 25 years with " Believe." It is the first time she has topped the charts since 1974's " Dark Lady."

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:)awesome read always

[TJ]

Glad You Enjoy This Thread Dex!

March 5th

• 1955
  In the wake of the continual controversy on offensive R&B records, BMI, the largest organization of music publishers. releases plans to tighten controls on objectional lyrics. BMI never gave clearance to nearly a dozen of singles, some like Big Joe Turner's " Shake Rattle & Roll " became major hits.
  
  
• 1955
  Elvis Presley makes his television debut on the regionally telecast " The Louisiana Hayride."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1958
  Singer Andy Gibb is born.
  
  
• 1960
  Elvis Presley is released from the army. Two days earlier, he left Germany & arrived at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. Earlier in the year, Presley was promoted to sergeant.
  
  
• 1963
  Patsy Cline, the country singer who won crossover popularity with pop Top Twenty hits like " Crazy " &
  " I Fall to Pieces," is killed in small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. The flight was enroute to Nashville from St. Louis.
  
  
• 1965
  The Yardbirds' " For Your Love " is released in the U.K. Over time it will be a Top Ten hit in both the U.K. & the U.S.
  
  
• 1965
  The Rolling Stones embark on another British tour. Also on board are the Hollies, Goldie & the Gingerbreads, the Checkmates & the Konrads.
  
  
• 1968
  Sales of " Simon Says " by the 1910 Fruitgum Company, passes the million mark, trumpeting the arrival of the short - lived term but immensely successful " bubblegum " craze.
  
  
• 1973
  Jimi Hendrix's personal manager, Michael Jeffrey, dies in a plane crash. He was on an Iberia flight from Majorca to England, where he owned a nightclub. All passengers on board were killed.
  
  
• 1974
  Gregg Allman's first solo album, "Laid Back" attains gold status and at the same time starts rumors that the Allmans are splitting.
  
  
• 1979
  A little over a month after buying it for a reported $20 million, MCA Records dissolves ABC Records.
  
  
• 1982
  Comedian & Blues Brother John Belushi dies of drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles. Belushi's vulgar, dangerous & physical sense of humor brought comedy closer to rock and roll than perhaps any other comedian ever had.
  John Belushi was 33 years old.
  
  
• 1994
  Grace Slick points a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, CA home. In June, she is sentenced to 200 hours of community service & three month's worth of Alcoholic's Anonymous meetings.

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seemed like it was a date in time for peepz in bands to pass over to the other side .Isn't it strange..........
still gt reading I sit with a coffee and it's better then the winnipeg sun

[TJ]

This Thread Was Long Overdue
Little Thread I've Been Wanting To Do...

Glad Someone Enjoys Reading
ROCK HISTORY!

On March 4th
Comedian/Actor
John Candy
Also Died But He's Not In Rock So

[TJ]

March 8th

• 1945
  Mickey Dolenz, drummer with the Monkees, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1946
  Former Eagles & Poco bassist Randy Meisner is born.
  
  
• 1958
  Singer Gary Numan is born.
  
  
• 1962
  The Beatles make their television debut, appearing on the BBC program " Teenager's Turn " to play Roy Orbison's " Dream Baby."
  
  
• 1968
  Bill Graham, owner of the the Fillmore, San Francisco's legendary rock ballroom, opens the Fillmore east in an abandoned movie theater on Second Avenue and Sixth Street in New York City. The opening bill features Albert King & Time Buckley & Big Brother & the Holding Company.
  
  
• 1970
  Diana Ross opens an eleven date cabaret engagement in Framingham, Massachusetts, her first outing as a solo performer.
  
  
• 1973
  Paul McCartney pleads guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish countryside farm & is fined $240. Paul claims a fan gave him the seeds & he didn't know what they would grow.
  
  
• 1973
  Grateful Dead keyboardist & founding member Ron " Pigpen " McKernan dies of a stomach hemorrhage in Madera, California. He was just 27.
  
  
• 1976
  Former Spooky Tooth singer Gary Wright is awarded a gold record for " Dream Weaver. "
  
  
• 1978
  Steely Dan's sixth album, " Aja " becomes their first album to be certified platinum. Two weeks later, their second album, " Countdown to Ecstasy " will be certified gold, five years after its release.
  
  
• 1979
  In one of the first public acknowledgements of the hard times beginning to hit the record industry Rolling Stone magazine reports that due to the " skyrocketing costs of producing, promoting and supporting a new album, now put at between $350,000 & $500,000, " labels will start limiting their new releases.
  
  
• 1987
  Bob Seger finishes what he says is his last tour ever at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. Of course, it wasn't his last tour.
  
  
• 1993
  Singer Billy Eckstine dies in Pittsburgh at age 78.
  
  
• 1993
  " Beavis & Butthead " premieres on MTV as a series. The two mutant characters had previously appeared on another MTV program, " Liquid Television. "
  

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March 9th

• 1933
  Singer Lloyd Price is born.
  
  
• 1942
  Mark Lindsay, vocalist with Paul Revere & the Raiders, is born.
  
  
• 1945
  Robin Trower, guitarist with Procul Harum, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1961
  The Supremes release their first single, " I Want A Guy."
  
  
• 1968
  The members of eight rock & roll performers or bands are included in the 1968 edition of " Who's Who in America," the first to be included since Elvis Presley & the Beatles. They are the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Mamas & The Papas, The Doors, The Monkees & Donovan.
  
  
• 1969
  " The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour," which featured such rock bands as the Beatles, the Who, Jefferson Airplane & the Doors, is canceled by CBS-TV. This is in the wake of the controversy over the on-air censorship of guest star Joan Baez. The brothers had refused to censor comments about her husband, who was going to jail for objecting to the draft.
  
  
• 1972
  In what will become a trend, pop artists unite to perform for a presidential candidate: Carole King, James Taylor & Barbara Streisand among others, play a benefit show for Democratic presidential hopeful George McGovern at the Forum in Los Angeles.
  
  
• 1970
  Allen Klein already accused of laundering money from UNICEF, which was to receive the royalties from " Bangladesh's " sales, turns over just one-tenth of the $1.2 million due the organization.
  
  
• 1974
  Bad Company performs its first concert in England. The band was made up of members of Free, King Crimson & Mott the Hoople.
  
  
• 1976
  British heavy-metal/glitter rock band, Queen's breakthrough album, " A Night at the Opera," is certified gold. On the album is a surprise hit, the six-minute-long " Bohemian Rhapsody."
  
  
• 1976
  The start of the second leg of the Who's U.S. tour following their " By Numbers " album is delayed when Keith Moon collapses onstage at the Boston Garden ten minutes into the show.
  
  
• 1977
  Fleetwood Mac's " Rumours " becomes their second album to go platinum since the addition of Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham.
  
  
• 1979
  ABC-TV shows the rock documentary, " Heroes of Rock & Roll," narrated by Jeff Bridges & featuring clips of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello & others.
  
  
• 1987
  U2 releases " The Joshua Tree ", an album which sat atop the chart for 9 weeks & won the Grammy for Album of the year. It contained U2 classics like " I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," " With Or Without You " & " Where The Streets Have No Name."
  
  
• 1997
  The Notorius B.I.G. is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a Surburban after a " Soul Train Awards " party. He was 24.

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:)my days complete after reading the news

[TJ]

This News Worth Reading In My Opinon Also!!!

March 10th

• 1940
  Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean is born.
  
  
• 1947
  Tom Scholz, guitarist with Boston, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1959
  Elvis Presley's " I Need Your Love Tonight " backed with " A Fool Such as I " is released on RCA Records. The following day, based on advanced orders for the disco totaling nearly one million, RCA ships a gold record for the platter to Elvis, who is stationed in Germany.
  
  
• 1960
  The British music weekly " Record Retailer ", known later as " Music Week," publishes the first U.K. LP chart. The first Number One LP in the U.K. was
  " The Explosive Freddy Cannon."
  
  
• 1961
  Twenty-two year old songwriter Jeff Barry whose " Tell Laura I Love Her " was a Top Ten hit for Ray Peterson, signs an exclusive writing and recording deal with Trinity Music. In 1962, he hooks up with Phil Spector & Shadow Moaton, & with his new wife Ellie Greenwich, they start cranking out the hits. They include
  " Da Doo Ron Ron " & " Then He Kissed Me " (Crystals), " Be My Baby " (Ronettes), " Chapel of Love " (Dixie Cups), " Do Wah Diddy " (Manfred Mann), " Leader of the Pack " (Shangri-Las) " River Deep , Mountain High " (Ike and Tina Turner), " Hanky Panky " (Tommy James) & " Cherry Cherry " (Neil Diamond).
  
  
• 1963
  Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament is born.
  
  
• 1966
  Singer Edie Brickell is born.
  
  
• 1972
  The group America receive a gold record for the self-titled debut album. Two weeks later, the single
  " A Horse with No Name " also goes gold.
  
  
• 1977
  Two months after EMI nulled its contracts with the Sex Pistols, A&M Records signs the band, in a ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace. The group has been banned from airplay & from virtually every concert venue in the U.K. Nine days later, A&M terminates the deal reportedly because of the reputation for attracting violence which the media has pinned on them.
  
  
• 1977
  Pink Floyd's second album since 1973's landmark " The Dark Side of the Moon ", " Animals " goes platinum. It hits Number Three.
  
  
• 1978
  The Bee Gee's " Night Fever " moves into the #1 spot on the chart. It replaces another Gibb Brothers tune, " Stayin' Alive."
  
  
• 1979
  James Brown plays the Grand Ole Opry.
  
  
• 1988
  Singer Andy Gibb dies of a heart ailment. He was 30 years old.
  
  
• 1988
  Onstage in Perth, Australia, George Michael thanks Tipper Gore, head of the Parents Musical Resource Committee, for helping boost sales of his " Faith " LP.
  
  
• 1992
  Prince won a lifetime achievement award at the Soul Train awards.
  
  
• 1997
  Singer Laverne Baker dies in New York at the age of 67. She had been suffering from diabetes.

[TJ]

Sorry NO Entry For Yesterday But Under The Circumstances Of The Funeral For My Granny ....

March 12th

• 1942
  Paul Kantner, guitar player with Jefferson Airplane, is born.
  
  
• 1948
  Singer/songwriter James Taylor is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1955
  Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker dies in New York City of heart failure. He more-or-less invented the be-bop form of music and just the week before played at the New York City jazz club Birdland, which was named after him. Charlie Parker was 34 years old.
  
  
• 1958
  Jazz singer Billie Holiday, who had pled guilty to a narcotics-possession charge in 1956, is given a year's probation by a Philadelphia court.
  
  
• 1969
  The 11th annual Grammy Awards are announced and Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" is named Record of the Year.
  
  
• 1969
  George Harrison and his wife Patti are arrested in the town of Esher in Surrey, south of London, on charges of cannabis resin possession after authorities found 120 joints in their house.
  
  
• 1969
  Paul McCartney weds American photographer Linda Eastman in London. Paul's brother Mike McGear is the best man, no other Beatle is in attendance.
  
  
• 1974
  John Lennon is involved in an altercation with a photographer outside the Troubador club in Los Angeles. Lennon and Harry Nilsson had been heckling comedian Tommy Smothers and were ejected from the club.
  
  
• 1983
  U2's "War" enters the British LP chart at #1.
  
  
• 1988
  Producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million. The money were proceeds from the "A Very Special Christmas" LP.
  
  
• 1994
  Pat Benatar and husband Neil Geraldo give birth to daughter Hana Juliana.

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