sponsored by:

1948
Singer/songwriter James Taylor is born in Boston.

1949
Born on this day: Bill Payne, Little Feat. Thre band had two Top 40 albums during the 70's, and their best-known songs are "Dixie Chicken," "Fat Man in the Bathtub," "Oh Atlanta," and "Sailin' Shoes."
Little Feat "Dixie Chicken" 1977

1949
Born on this day: Mike Gibbins, drummer with Badfinger. Gibbins died on 4th Oct 2005.

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.

1957
Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) is born.

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.

1965
The Beatles wrap up their location shooting of Help! in the Bahamas. In an interview with The New York Times, Beatles manager Brian Epstein predicts that the band will still be popular in 10 years and declares the Rolling Stones "a fine group."

1969
The 11th annual Grammy Awards are announced and Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" is named Record of the Year. Jose Feliciano wins a Grammy as Best New Artist. Aretha Franklin wins a Grammy for Best Female R&B Performance for "Chain of Fools."

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.

1971
"Power to the People" by John Lennon is released.

1971
Jethro Tull release their fourth studio album, Aqualung. The first side of the LP contains a series of six character sketches, including two sketches of people of questionable repute (title character "Aqualung" and "Cross-Eyed Mary") and two autobiographical tracks including "Cheap Day Return," written by band leader Ian Anderson while returning from a visit to his critically ill father. The overall message of the lyrics on the second side is said to be "pro-God but anti-church," and makes the statement that organized religion can actually restrict a person's relationship with their God instead of enhancing it. Anderson has denied any attempt to create a concept album.
Jethro Tull "Aqualung"

1971
The Allman Brothers Band begin recording the classic double LP Live at the Fillmore East.
Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"

1973
The Eagles appear at Oxford Polytechnic during a UK tour. J.D. Souther is the opening act.
The Eagles "Take It Easy" BBC 1973

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.

1977
The Sex Pistols are involved in a fight at London's Speakeasy Club with Bob Harris, presenter of BBC 2's The Old Grey Whistle Test, resulting in one of the show's engineers needing 14 stitches in his head. Two days later Harris' solicitors contact Derek Green at A&M, the band's record label. Harris' management also managed Peter Frampton, one of the label's top acts at A&M. Green discusses the matter with the company's two founders, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert, and the decision is made to cancel the Pistols' contract and halt production of the band's first single, "God Save The Queen."

1977
Born on this day: Ben Kenny, bassist, Incubus.

1979
Born on this day: Pete Doherty, guitar, vocals, The Libertines.

1983
U2's War enters the British LP chart at #1.

1983
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler has her only UK No.1 single with "Total Eclipse Of The Heart."

1988
Terence Trent D'Arby makes his US Top 30 singles chart debut with "Wishing Well."
Terence Trent D'Arby "Wishing Well"

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.

1990
Nirvana and Tad appear at the Town Pump in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1993
Oasis play at the Le Bateau, Liverpool, England in front of 20 people.

1994
Pat Benatar and husband Neil Geraldo give birth to daughter Hana Juliana.

1994
Swedish group Ace Of Base started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with "The Sign," a No.2 hit in the UK.

1995
The Spin Doctors played a gig at singer Chris Barron's old School in Princeton and raised $10,000 towards a trip to France and the UK for the school choir.

1996
Nancy Sinatra donates her white go-go boots to the Hard Rock Cafe in Beverly Hills, California.

1998
English reggae singer Judge Dread, who caused a stir in the '70s with his smutty series of "Big Six" singles, dies onstage in Canterbury after suffering a heart attack. He was 53.

1998
Cathay Pacific Airways announces that it has banned Liam Gallagher, singer of British rock band Oasis, after a fracas on a flight from Hong Kong to Australia. Passengers and crews aboard the flight to Perth claim Gallagher and members of his band yelled obscenities and smoked in the cabin.

1998
Rock act Korn serves a cease-and-desist demand to the Michigan assistant principal who suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt carrying the band's name. Attorneys for the Immortal/Epic rock act serve Assistant Principal Gretchen Plewes, Zeeland High School, and the Zeeland, Mich., public school district with the papers, demanding that the three entities stop "[making] defamatory comments about Korn and its products" as well as "[claiming] to have personal knowledge that Korn intends to be insulting to the listeners of its music."

1999
A private funeral for Dusty Springfield, who died earlier in the week of breast cancer, is held at St. Mary's Church in Henley-on-Thames, England. Complying with the singer's wishes, there are no memorials in London, New York, or Los Angeles.

1999
Infuriated by a scathing review of a concert he gave in Moscow in December, Mstislav Rostropovich declares he will never play in Russia again. "I will give concerts only where people want to hear me and find pleasure in this, not where they say that I am a has-been."

2000
In London, Multi-platinum R&B quartet Destiny's Child plays its first live date since the Feb. 18 naming of Farrah Franklin and Michelle Williams as the group's new members.

2001
Vince Gill and Amy Grant welcome the arrival of a baby girl, Corrina Grant Gill, at a Nashville area hospital. Corrina weighs 7 lbs. 9 1/4 oz. and is 19 1/2 inches long.

2001
Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" is voted the Song Of The Century in a poll of musicians, critics, and fans.

2003
The Chinese government forbids the Rolling Stones from playing the songs "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Beast Of Burden," and "Let's Spend The Night Together" during their April tour.

2003
Ryan Adams ends his war of words with the White Stripes by declaring their new album Elephant, "may be the best rock 'n' roll record ever made."

2003
Elvis Costello fills in as host on The Late Show when David Letterman falls ill.

2003
Yoko Ono places an ad in The San Francisco Chronicle reading "Imagine Peace ... Spring 2003."

2004
A warrant is issued for the arrest of Rosalind Morganfield, the daughter of blues giant Muddy Waters, in Gainesville, Fla. Morganfield is wanted for the murder of a 19-year-old man in 1996.

2004
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker breaks his right foot while in Australia, forcing the cancellation of the band's planned tour of the continent, as well as several shows in Japan and two in Hawaii.

2006
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour tops the U.K. album charts with On An Island. The No. 1 British single is Chico's "It's Chico Time," which holds steady for a second week.

2006
Bob Geldof is honored with a special achievement accolade at the German industry's annual Echo Awards in Berlin. The veteran Irish musician and humanitarian is lauded for masterminding the historic Live 8 concerts, and for his distinguished career both as frontman of the Boomtown Rats and as a solo artist.

2006
VH1 aired the first episode of My Reality Breakdown on UK TV featuring the former Partridge Family child star Danny Bonaduce.

March 12 Birthdays

• Gustav Robert Kirchoff 1824
• Clement Studebaker 1831
• Charles Boycott 1832
• Jane Delano 1862
• Gustavo Diaz Orcaz 1911
• Paul Weston 1912
• Wally Schirra 1913
• Googie Withers 1917
• Gordon MacRae 1921
• Jack Kerouac 1922
• Edward Albee 1928
• Al Jarreau 1932
• Lloyd Dobyns 1936
• Johnny Rutherford 1938
• Barbara Feldon 1941
• Brian O'Hara (The Fourmost) 1942
• Liza Minnelli 1946
• Mark Moseley 1948
• James Taylor 1948
• Mike Gibbins (Badfinger) 1949
• Bill Payne (Little Feat) 1949
• Jon Provost 1950
• Carl Hiaasen 1953
• Jerry Levine 1957
• Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) 1957
• Marlon Jackson (The Jackson Five) 1957
• Courtney B. Vance 1960
• Titus Welliver 1961
• Darryl Strawberry 1962
• John Andretti 1963
• Julia Campbell 1963
• Aaron Eckhart 1968
• Graham Coxon (Blur) 1969
• Samm Levine 1982

What others are saying

There are no comments yet. Be the first to post one!