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March 26

1944
Diana Ross is born in Detroit.

1948
Steven Tyler, lead vocalist for Aerosmith, is born Steven Victor Tallarico in Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire.
Aerosmith "Come Together"

1949
Fran Sheehan, bassist with Boston, is born.
Boston "More Than A Feeling"

1957
Ricky Nelson records his first songs.

1961
Gene McDaniels' "One Hundred Pounds of Clay," his first and biggest hit, enters the pop chart. It peaks at #3.

1961
Elvis Presley sets a British chart first - Number One with three straight releases: "It's now or never," "Are You Lonesome Tonight," and "Wooden Heart."

1965
NME announces guitarist Eric Clapton's replacement in the Yardbirds is Jeff Beck. Clapton quit the group protesting the commerciality of tunes like "For Your Love" and "Heart Full of Soul."

1968
Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha is born.

1970
Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary whose album, Peter, Paul and Mommy is the latest Grammy Award winner for Best Recording for Children, pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl in Washington D.C.

1971
The Rolling Stones tape a live performance at the Marquee Club for television. Although the program later aired in Europe, British television has no interest in it whatsoever.
Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" Marquee Club 1971

1972
Mott the Hoople decide to pack it in after four albums. However, David Bowie comes to their rescue, with a song called "All the Young Dudes." Hoople records it. Bowie produces it and it becomes a smash in the U.K. and Top Forty in the U.S.
Mott The Hoople "All the Young Dudes"

1974
David Essex enjoys his one and only succesful U.S. hit "Rock On," which turns gold on this date.
David Essex "Rock On"

1975
Tommy, the film, premiers in London.

1976
Wings guitarist Jimmy McCullough breaks a finger after slipping in his hotel bathroom after the last show of the band's European tour, in Paris. The injury pushed back by three weeks the start of Paul McCartney's first shows in the United State in a decade.
Wings "Silly Love Songs"

1977
Stiff Records releases "Less Than Zero" b/w "Radio Sweetheart", the first single by Elvis Costello.

1980
Seven years after Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon, it breaks the record for the longest-charting pop album, previously held by Carole King's Tapestry.

1986
Guns N' Roses was signed to Geffen Records.
Guns 'N Roses "Sweet Child O'Mine"

1995
Rapper Eazy-E dies of AIDS in Los Angeles. He was 31.

2000
Phil Collins wins an Oscar at the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Original Song thanks to "You'll Be In My Heart" from the Disney animated feature Tarzan.

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