On this day, March 8 – Born – Dick Hyman (1927) – Jazz pianist. Richard Fariña (1937) – American folk singer. Ralph Ellis (1942) – The Swinging Blue Jeans. Shel Macrae (aka Andrew Semple, 1943) – guitarist for The Fortunes. Keith Keef Hartley (1944) – drummer for The Keef Hartley Band. Micky Dolenz (aka George Dolenz, Jr., 1945) – The Monkees. Randy Meisner (1946) – The Eagles. Carole Bayer Sager (1947) – songwriter. Michael Allsup (1947) – guitarist for Three Dog Night. Little Peggy March (1948) – singer. Mel Galley (1948) – guitarist for Trapeze. Dave Lambert (1949) – The Strawbs. Douglas Buzz Shearman (1950) – vocalist for Moxy. Clive Burr (1957) – drummer for Iron Maiden. Gary Numan (1958) – singer/songwriter/keyboardist (“Cars”). Steve Grantley (1962) – drummer for The Alarm and Stiff Little Fingers. Peter Gill (1964) – drummer for Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Salt (aka Cheryl James, 1966) – Salt-N-Pepa. Gareth “Gaz” Coombes (1976) – vocalist/guitarist for Supergrass. Tom Chaplin (1979) – vocalist for Keane. R.I.P. – Ron Pigpen McKernan (1973) – gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Age 27. The Grateful Dead. Stuart Hamblen (1989) – brain cancer. Age 80. Country and Christian music artist. Billy Eckstine (1993) – Age 78. Big band singer. Roger Christian (1998) – brain tumor. Age 48. The Christians. Adam Faith (2003) – heart attack. Age 62. British singer, teen idol. Hank Locklin (2009) – Age 91. Country music singer/songwriter (“Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On”). Mike Starr (2011) – prescription drug overdose. Age 44. Bassist for Alice In Chains. St. Clair Lee (2011) – Age 66. Vocalist for The Hues Corporation (“Rock The Boat”). Jimmy Ellis (2012) – Alzheimer’s disease. Age 64. Vocalist for The Trammps. Peter Banks (2013) – heart failure. Age 65. Guitarist for Yes and Flash. Album releases – The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today! (1965) Queen – Queen II (1974) Badfinger – Ass (1974) UK Foreigner – Foreigner (1977) The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour (1982) Luther Vandross – The Night I Fell In Love (1985) Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994) Failure – Magnified (1994) Soundgarden – Superunknown (1994) David Lee Roth – Your Filthy Little Mouth (1994) Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994) Events – 1958 – Little Richards Good Golly Miss Molly hits the Billboard Hot 100. 1960 – Jimmy Jones records Good Timin’” at Olmstead Sound Studios in New York City. 1961 – The Beatles play three shows at three different venues around Liverpool - the first is at the Cavern Club for a lunchtime set; the second is an early evening gig at the Aintree Institute in Aintree, and finally a late show at Hambleton Hall in Huyton. 1963 – Country music singer Jack Anglin, of the duo Johnnie & Jack and The Anglin Brothers, is killed when he crashes his car in Madison, Tennessee, on his way to Patsy Cline’s memorial service. He was 46. 1963 – The Four Tops sign with Motown for $400 as a jazz-pop act. 1964 – The Dave Clark 5 makes their debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Glad All Over.” Also on the show are Jerry Vale, Florence Henderson, and Harry Ruby and Blossom Seeley, who perform a salute to American composers. 1965 – David Bowie makes his television debut as Davie Jones and The Manish Boys, singing I Pity The Fool on the BBC show Gadzooks! Its All Happening. 1965 – Bob Dylan releases his single, Subterranean Homesick Blues b/w She Belongs To Me, on Columbia Records. 1966 – Bob Dylan records Just Like A Woman at Columbia Studios in Nashville. 1966 – The Hollies and Lulu begin a tour of Poland, making Lulu the first British female singer to ever perform behind the Iron Curtain. 1968 – Bill Grahams Fillmore East opens in the East Village in New York City. Tim Buckley, Albert King and Janis Joplin with Big Brother and The Holding Company play on opening night. 1968 – Cream plays the first of two nights at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Both shows are recorded for possible album release. 1968 – Elvis Presley’s 26th movie, Stay Away Joe, opens in theaters. 1968 – Simon and Garfunkel record “Old Friends/Bookends.” 1969 – The Small Faces perform their final show with Steve Marriott, and break up. 1970 – Diana Ross makes her debut as a solo performer at the Monticello Dinner Theater & Nightclub in Framingham, Massachusetts. 1971 – Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrixs Woodstock performance of The Star Spangled Banner.” 1973 – Paul McCartney pleads guilty to growing marijuana on his farm in Scotland and is fined £100. 1974 – Bad Company makes their concert debut at Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1975 – The New Musical Express announces that The Rolling Stones have chosen Wayne Perkins to replace the recently departed guitarist Mick Taylor. 1976 – The Beatles release the single, Yesterday b/w I Should Have Known Better, in the UK. 1990 – Rolling Stone magazine names Jefferson Airplane’s 1989 comeback (and final) album the Most Unwanted Comeback of the Year, while Cher wins the worst video nod for “If I Could Turn Back Time.” 2006 – Boy George pleads guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to filing a false burglary report at his apartment, where the responding officers found cocaine. George is sentenced to a drug rehab program and five days of community service in New York City. 2008 – China imposes stricter rules on foreign pop stars after Björk causes controversy by shouting Tibet, Tibet at her concert in Shanghai during a performance of her song “Declare Independence.” 2009 – Malcolm Jones, guitarist with the Scottish band Runrig, is hospitalized after suffering a heart attack and collapsing at Waverley rail station in Edinburgh. 2009 – A blue plaque commemorating Keith Moon is unveiled at the site of the original Marquee Club. 2010 – Rapper Lil Wayne is sentenced to a year in prison at New York Citys Rikers Island after pleading guilty to gun possession from his arrest in 2007 when a gun was found on his tour bus. 2011 – While in town filming the movie The Confession Of A Child Of The Century, Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty breaks into a closed music store in Regensburg, Germany, and steals a record and a guitar, which he soon ditches in the town’s square. When questioned afterward about the incident, Doherty claims he didn’t remember doing it because he was drunk. Robbery charges against Doherty will ultimately be filed.
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