On This Day

04/03/1966

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Pink Floyd appeared at The Marquee Club in Wardour Street, London, England. During the early 1960s a new generation of British rhythm and blues bands such as The Rolling Stones, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, and The Animals forged a new era in rock music at the Marquee.

04/03/1956

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Elvis Presley appeared on ABC-TV's 'The Milton Berle Show' live from the flight deck of the USS Hancock in San Diego, California. He performed 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Shake Rattle And Roll' and 'Blue Suede Shoes'. It was estimated that one out of every four Americans saw the show.

03/31/1960

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Lonnie Donegan was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'My Old Man A Dustman', his third No.1. Donegan became the first British artist to enter the UK chart at No.1, the only other artist to achieve this feat at this time was Elvis Presley. The song which was recorded live at the Bristol Hippodrome was a music hall novelty song.

03/30/1957

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Buddy Knox became the first artist in the Rock 'n' Roll era to write his own number one hit when 'Party Doll' topped the US singles chart. Knox would go on to score four more US Top 40 hits between 1957 and 1961.

03/29/1973

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Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show got their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine after their hit, 'The Cover of Rolling Stone' reached No. 6 on the US singles chart. According to members of the group, they really did buy five copies for their mothers, just like the song said.

03/29/1963

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The Shadows had their fifth and final UK No.1 single with 'Foot Tapper'.

03/28/1992

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Over a $100,000 worth of damage was caused at The Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California, when Ozzy Osbourne invited the first two rows of the audience on stage. Several others took up the offer and the band was forced to exit the stage.

03/28/1970

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Simon and Garfunkel were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', the duo's only UK No.1. Only Art Garfunkel sang on the track.

03/27/1987

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U2 performed from the roof of a store in downtown LA to make the video for 'Where The Streets Have No Name', attracting thousands of spectators and bringing traffic to a standstill. The police eventually stop the shoot.

03/27/1966

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John Lennon and Paul McCartney were awarded the prestigious Ivor Novello award for 'Michelle', the most performed song in the UK in 1966.

03/26/1976

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One-man blues band Duster Bennett was killed in a car accident. 1970 album 'Smiling Like I'm Happy'. Worked with Alexis Korner, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac and B.B. King.

03/26/1956

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Kay Starr was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rock And Roll Waltz'. The song is told from the point-of-view of a teenager who comes home early from a date, and catches her parents attempting to dance to one of her rock and roll records.

03/24/1973

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Alice Cooper went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Billion Dollar Babies'. Also a No.1 in the US.

03/24/1956

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Les Baxter started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Poor People Of Paris' (a UK No.1 for Winifred Atwell). Baxter had the UK No.10 hit in 1955 with 'Unchained Melody'.

03/23/1961

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Elvis Presley had his seventh UK No.1 single with 'Wooden Heart'. The song was based on a German folk song and was featured in Presley's film GI Blues.

03/22/1975

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Led Zeppelin started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Physical Graffiti, the group's fourth US No.1 album. On its first day of release in the US, the album shipped a million copies – no other album in the history of Atlantic records had generated so many sales. Physical Graffiti has now been certified 16 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 16 million copies.

03/22/1965

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'Bringing It All Back Home', Bob Dylan's fifth studio album was released. The album reached No.6 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart, the first of Dylan's LPs to break into the US top 10, and it also topped the UK charts later that Spring. The lead-off track, Subterranean Homesick Blues, became Dylan's first single to chart in the US, peaking at No.39. The album's iconic cover, photographed by Daniel Kramer, features Sally Grossman, wife of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, lounging in the background. The artefacts scattered around the room include vinyl LPs by The Impressions and Robert Johnson.

03/21/1994

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Bruce Springsteen won an Oscar for the song 'Streets of Philadelphia'. I must say great hit.

03/21/1961

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The Beatles played their first ever evening show at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, supporting The Swinging Bluegenes, (later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans).

Official web the Cavern club!!

03/21/1956

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Elvis Presley appeared at the 4,000 seated YMCA Gymnasium in Lexington, North Carolina. Also on the bill, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, featuring June Carter, Rod Brasfield, Hal and Ginger. Tickets cost $1 for general admission and $1.50 for reserved seats.

03/20/1970

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David and Angela Bowie were married at Beckenham Registry Office, London. They were divorced in 1980.

03/20/1960

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Elvis Presley started his first recordings since being discharged from the US Army. A 12 hour session in a Nashville recording studio produced his next No.1 single, ‘Stuck On You’. Scotty Moore and Bill Black, who had quit Presley's touring band in 1957, were in the studio with him for the last time.

‘Stuck On You’ first song after the military.

Great hit!

03/19/1962

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Bob Dylan’s debut album Bob Dylan was released in the Untied States. Initially poor sales led the record to be known around Columbia Records as ‘Hammond's Folly’ (John Hammond was producer of Dylan’s early recordings and the man responsible for signing Dylan). The album was praised by the New York City weekly newspaper Village Voice as an ‘explosive country blues debut’, but featured only two Dylan original compositions, Talkin' New York and Song To Woody, the rest being old folk standards.

03/19/1982

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‎19 th March 1982, Ozzy Osbourne's rhythm guitarist and former Quiet Riot member Randy Rhoads was killed when the plane he was riding in crashed. After driving much of the night, the band had stopped near a small airstrip. The tour bus driver, Andrew Aycock, talked the band's keyboardist, Don Airey, into taking a test flight in a '55 Beechcraft Bonanza, the joyride ended, and the plane landed safel...

03/18/2003

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Michael Jackson's video "History on Film" was certified Gold and three times Platinum by the RIAA.