ON THIS DAY :-
March 1st:
1941 - The first FM Radio station opened in Nashville, Tennessee
1958 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets began their only UK tour, starting in London, a twice- nightly package with Des O'Connor, Gary Miller, The Tanner Sisters and Ronnie Keene and his Orchestra.
1966 - Gene Clark of The Byrds announced he was leaving the group due to his fear of flying.
1968 - Johnny Cash and June Carter were married.
1969 - Jim Morrison of The Doors was charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour after showing his old man to the audience during a show in Miami.
1974 - Queen begin their first headling UK tour in Blackpool at the Winter Garden..
1982 - Jimmy Page releases his first solo LP/album, the soundtrack music for film "Deathwish 2".
1986 - Gary Glitter was admitted to hospital, suffering from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.
1989 - Madonna started a $5 million, (£2.9m) sponsorship deal with Pepsi Cola.
1991 - "The Doors" movie debuted. Val Kilmer played the role of Jim Morrison.
1994 - Nirvana played their final ever concert at an Airport Hanger, The Terminal Einz in Munich, Germany, infront of 3,000 fans
1995 - R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry has a brain aneurysm during a concert in Switzerland, and has to to leave the stage
2001 - In a New York court, Sean 'Puffy' Combs was the star witness of his own defence claiming he didn't have a gun during a shooting in a New York club, claiming he thought he was being shot at.
March 2nd:
1957 - Patsy Cline hits American country chart for first time with Walkin' After Midnight.
1960 - After completing his national service and flying back to America, Elvis Presley stepped on British soil for the first and only time in his life when the plane carrying him stopped for refuelling at Prestwick Airport, Scotland.
1963 - The Four Seasons became the first group to have 3 consecutive No.1's in the US when 'Walk Like A man', started a three week run at the top.
1964 - The Beatles began filming their first feature film 'A Hard Days Night' at Marylebone train station, London.
1974 - Stevie Wonder won four awards at this year's Grammys: Album of the year for 'Innervisions', Best R&B song and Best vocal for 'Superstition' and Pop vocal performance for 'You Are The Sunshine Of My Life'.
1975 - Linda McCartney was arrested for marijuana possession when a policeman stopped a Lincoln Continental after running a red light in Los Angeles and detected a smell of marijuana, on searching the car found eight ounces of the drug. Paul was driving the car.
1979 - Havana Jam the first jointly sponsored US-Cuban Music Festival begins for three days. Fans see Billy Joel, Stephen Stills, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Tom Scott.
1983 - A new digital audio system, a five-inch compact disc containing up to 1 hour of music was launched by Sony, Philips and Polygram.
1984 - Jerry Hall, the wife of Mick Jagger, gave birth to their baby Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger.
1989 - Madonna started a £2.9 million ($5 million) sponsorship deal with Pepsi Cola.
1991 - 'All Right Now', by Free made No.2 in the UK singles chart, 21 years after it's first release; it was re-issued to coincide with its use in a Wrigleys Chewing gum TV advert.
2000 - DMX was arrested for driving without a license and marijuana possession in Cheektowaga, N.Y.
March 3rd:
1931 - The first jazz album to sell a million copies was recorded. It was "Minnie The Moocher" by Cab Calloway.
1957 - Samuel Cardinal Stritch banned rock 'n' roll from Chicago archdiocese Roman Catholic schools.
1966 - Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay formed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles.
1969 - Led Zeppelin recorded their first BBC Radio 1 'Top Gear' session.
1973 - Roberta Flack won Song of the year and Record of the year with 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' at this years Grammy Awards.
1975 - Linda McCartney was arrested for personal possession of marijuana. Paul was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident but was not charged.
1982 - While in Italy, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana lapsed into a coma after taking a combination of Valium and champagne.
1985 - Michael Jackson visited Madame Tussauds Waxworks in London to unveil his waxwork look-alike.
1994 - The Smashing Pumpkins were banned from appearing on BBC TV's 'Top Of The Pops', due to the content of their lyrics to 'Disarm'. This single was this weeks highest chart new entry.
1995 - Bill Berry, R.E.M.'s drummer, underwent surgery to halt bleeding from a brain aneurysm.
1999 - Oasis agreed to pay their former drummer Tony McCarroll a one-off sum of £550,000 ($935,000) after he sued the Manchester band for millions in unpaid royalties. McCarroll had been sacked from the band in 1995.
2003 - Penguin Group announced that Madonna had written five illustrated story books for readers aged 6 and above. Publication was scheduled to begin in September 2003.
March 4th:
1955 -Jazz great Charlie Bird Parker played at Birdland in what would be his last public performance.
1959 - The winners of the first Grammy Awards were announced. Domenico Modugno's 'Volare' was Record of the Year; Henry Mancini's 'Peter Gunn' was Album of the Year and The Champs 'Tequila' won best R&B performance.
1966 - John Lennon's statement that The Beatles were 'more popular than Jesus Christ' was published in The London Evening Standard. “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.” Lennon later apologised.
1967 - Steve Winwood and his brother Muff announced that they were leaving the Spencer Davis Group after their April 2 show.
1970 - Janis Joplin was fined $200 for using obscene language onstage in Tampa, FL.
1978 -Jerry Lee Lewis's home was raided at dwan by The US internal Revenue Service, they removed cars worth over £100,000 to pay off his tax debts.
1979 - Randy Jackson of The Jackson Five was seriously injured in a car crash breaking both legs, he almost died in the emergency room when a nurse inadvertently injects him with methadone.
1982 - Rolling Stone reported that Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa had formed a new band called Fred Zeppelin.
1993 - Patti LaBelle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1994 - Kurt Cobain was rushed to hospital after overdosing on champagne and 50-60 pills of Rohypnol in a Rome hotel during a Nirvana European tour.
2003 - 23 year-old Sian Davies was banned from playing her music and had her stereo system impounded, after she had played Cliff Richard music too loudly. Davies was fined £1,000 ($1,700) plus court costs after environmental protection officers raided her flat in Porth, Rhondda, Wales. The disc found in her CD player was the Cliff Richard single, 'Peace in Our Time'.
March 5th:
1955 - Elvis Presley made his TV debut when he appeared on the weekend show 'Louisiana Hayride' on KWKH TV
1963 - Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed when their single-engine plane crashed in Tennessee. They were returning from Kansas to Nashville to do a benefit for the widow of DJ Cactus Jack Call, who had been killed in a car crash.
1968 - Jerry Lee Lewis opened in the rock musical adaptation of "Othello" in Hollywood, CA.
1969 - Dusty Springfield collapsed while taping a TV appearance.
1973 - The former US manager of Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jeffrey was one of 68 people killed in a plane crash in France. Jeffery was en-route to a court appearance in London related to Hendrix.
1975 . . Rod Stewart met Swedish actress, Britt Ekland at a party in Los Angeles, the couple went on to have a high profile love affair.
1979 - ABC Records of US announces declining profits and goes out of business.
1982 - Two new 'Mamas' appear in the reformed Mamas and the Papas as they performed for the first time at Princeton University.
1984 - CBS announced that Michael Jackson's Thriller album has sold 30.9 million copies worldwide.
1999 - Sir Elton John won a court case against The Daily Star, after they had published long-lens photographs of Spice Girl Victoria Adams and footballer David Beckham while they were staying at his home.
2002 - The first episode of 'The Osbournes' TV show was aired on MTV in the US. Focusing on the daily activities of rock musician Ozzy Osbourne and his family.
March 6th:
1965 - The Temptations went to No.1 in US singles chart with the Smokey Robinson penned song 'My Girl', making the group the first male act to have a No.1 for Motown, The single only reached No.43 in the UK but made No.2 when re-issued
1968 - Sandie Shaw marries fashion designer Jeff Banks.
1970 - Awareness records released the Charles Manson album 'Lie' in the US. Manson was unable to promote the LP due to the fact he was serving a life sentence for the Sharon Tate murders.
1973 - Attempts to bring Elvis Presley to the UK for shows at London's Earl's Court failed. They were told that Elvis now had US tour and filming commitments.
1975 - Two golds are won .. Led Zeppelin win a gold record for 'Physical Graffiti' and Average White Band win their gold record for 'Pick Up the Pieces'.
1977 - "An Evening With Diana Ross" aired on NBC-TV.
1989 - Smokey Robinson's autobiography "Inside My Life" was released.
1998 - Oasis' Liam Gallagher was released on $10,000 bail from an Australian court in Brisbane after being charged for headbutting a fan, breaking the fan's nose.
1999 - George Jones was severely injured in a car accident
2001 - A man who hid for 24 hours in the rafters of a Cathedral and secretly filmed the Christening of Madonna's baby appeared in court. Security staff discovered the man after the ceremony when he made a noise climbing down from the rafters.
2004 - Diane Richie, the estranged wife of singer Lionel Richie, went to court seeking $300,000 (£176,500) a month in maintenance support. Diane’s monthly costs included: $20,000 (£11,800) a year on plastic surgery; $15,000 (£8,824) a month for clothing, shoes and accessories; $5,000 (£2,940) on jewellery; $3,000 (£1,765) on dermatology; $1,000 (£588) for laser hair removal and $600 (£353) on massages.
March 7th:
1917 - The first jazz record is released in US, recorded by Nick La Rocca's original Dixieland Jazz Band, it is called The Dixie Jazz Band One Step.
1958 - The first US DJ convention was held in Kansas. Broadcasters voted against Top 40 formatting recently adopted by American stations.
1964 - For the first time the UK Top Ten Singles Chart was made up entirely of British acts. Cilla Black was in the No.1 spot with 'Anyone Who Had A Heart.'; 2 Dave Clark Five: Bits and Pieces; 3 Bachelors: Diane; 4 Merseybeats: I Think of You; 5 Searchers: Needles and Pins; 6 Rolling Stones: Not Fade Away; 7 Billy J. Kramer: Little Children; 8 Gerry and the Pacemakers: I'm the One; 9 Brian Poole: Candy Man and at No.10 Eden Kane, with Boys Cry.
1965 - During a Rolling Stones gig at The Palace Theatre in Manchester, a teenage fan fell from the circle, the crowd below broke her fall.
1967 - Sandra Dee received a divorce from Bobby Darin.
1970 - 'Wand'rin Star' took Lee Marvin to the No.1 spot in the UK singles chart, a song he sang in the film 'Paint Your Wagon.'
1973 - CBS records hold a concert at Max's Kansas City in New York to celebrate the signing of Bruce Springsteen, boss John Hammond suffered a heart attack.
1976 - Elton John was immortalised in wax and put on display i in London's Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.
1987 - The Beastie Boys became the first rap act to have a No.1 album in the US with their debut album, 'Licensed To Ill.'
1991 - Rolling Stone magazine readers voted George Michael the best male singer and sexiest male artist.
2000 - Oasis singer Liam Gallagher won the Best Dressed Man Award from fashion magazine GQ.
2002 - Former Visage singer Steve Stange was hit over the head resulting in him needing 18 stitches and robbed of a bracelet given to him by Kylie Minogue; he had been on his way to a party in West London.
March 8th:
1941 - Willie Dixon was jailed for refusing induction into the armed forces. Military personnel escorted him from the stage of Chicago's Pink Poodle club. "I told them I was a conscientious objector and wasn't gonna fight for anybody," said Dixon.
1962 - The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain. The show was on the 5 p.m. "Teenager's Turn".
1965 - David Bowie made his TV debut with The Manish Boys on UK programme called 'Gadzooks! It's All Happening' performing their current single 'I Pity The Fool.'
1966 - Lulu became the first British female singer to appear behind the Iron curtain, when she toured Poland with The Hollies.
1969 - The Small Faces split up after singer Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band. Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones linked up with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and formed The Faces.
1973 - Paul McCartney was fined $170 (£100) for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. He claimed some fans gave him the seeds, and that he didn't know what they would grow in to.
1971 - WPAX Hanoi goes on the air fir the first time, opening with Jimi Hendrix's Star-Spangled Banner. Abbie Hoffman and many others make tapes in a loft in New York, the tapes were then broadcasted to US troops.
1974 - Bad Company gave their debut performance in England.
1990 - In the Rolling Stone Magazine's awards, Donny Osmond won the most unwelcome comeback award while Cher won the worst dressed female, and worst video for 'If I Could Turn Back Time'.
1993 - MTV debuts "Beavis and Butt-Head," an original animated series starring two suburban misfits. The show is the first spin-ff from the MTV's award-winner animated variety series, "Liquid Television."
2004 - Westlife singer Bryan McFadden announced he was quiting the group to spend more time with he wife and two children. He launched his solo career later on that year.
March 9th:
1957 - Calypso hits the UK with the chart entry of Banana Boat Song by Terriers.
1972 - Allen Klein presents UNICEF with the first cheque from the proceeds of George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh $1.2 million. Nearly $9 million more will be held up until 1982, due to legal problems.
1972 - Barbra Streisand, Carole King, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Quincy Jones and others give a fund-riasing concert at LA Forum for George McGovern.
1974 - Queen debut on UK singles chart with their Seven Seas of Rye.
1975 - Elvis Presley began his final recording session at RCA's Hollywood studios.
1976 - Keith Moon collapsed on stage at the start of a Who concert in the Boston Garden.
1977 - The Jacksons CBS show was aired for the last time on US TV finishing at the bottom of the ratings.
1981 - Robert Plant played a secret gig at Keele University, England with his new band The Honey Drippers.
1996 - Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher walked off stage during a gig at the Vernon Valley Gorge ski resort in New Jersey because his hands were too cold to play.
1997 - The Notorious B.I.G. is shot to death after a "Soul Train Awards" party.
2004 - Tom Jones was banned from wearing tight leather pants by his own son and manager Mark Jones. His son said it was time to "dress his age" as he was in danger of becoming a laughing stock at 63.
March 10th:
1940 - "I Pagliacci" by Ruggiero Leoncavallo became the first opera to be broadcast on television.
1955 - Ruth Brown presented with special award to mark sales of five million records, by Atlantic bosses Ahmet Urtegun and Jerry Wexler at Apollo theatre in Harlem.
1960 - UK trade paper Record Retailer published the UK's first ever EP (extended player) chart and LP chart. The No. 1 EP was 'Expresso Bongo' by Cliff Richard & The Shadows and the LP No.1 was Freddy's 'The Explosive Freddy Cannon.'
1977 - At 7am in the morning on a trestle table set up out-side Buckingham Palace, London, The Sex Pistols signed to A&M Records. The contract lasted for six days.
1984 - Ian Gillan leaves Black Sabbath.
1992 - At the Soul Train Awards, Prince wins a lifetime achievement award
1995 - Stone Roses' former manager Gareth Evans' £10 m lawsuit with the band was settled out of court over alleged wrongful dismissal, for an undisclosed sum.
2000 - Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against the clothing firm Gap, who were accused of using leather from cows slaughtered 'illegally and cruelly'. The protest took place in a store in Manhattan.
2005 - Michael Jackson arrived in court an hour late dressed in his pyjamas after being treated for a back injury. Jackson was attending the Santa Moria court for his child abuse trial.
March 11th:
1963 - The Mann Hugg Blues Brothers (later to become Manfred Mann) played at London's Marquee Club.
1964 - Elvis Presley's 14th movie, "Kissin' Cousins," was released.
1966 - Wilson Pickett performs at the Flamingo Club in London
1969 - Motown bought the Jackson 5 out of their contract with Steeltown.
1971 - Jim Morrison of The Doors arrived in Paris booking into The Hotel George's, the following week he moved into an apartment at 17 Rue Beautreillis in Paris. Jim lived in Paris until his death in July.
1978 - French singer Claude Francois was fatally electrocuted changing a light bulb while standing in his bath tub at his apartment in Paris. A few months previously he had a 1977 UK hit, 'Tears On The Telephone'.
1991 - For one week only Janet Jackson holds the record for the largest record deal ever until Michael Jackson signs with Sony a week later. Janet's deal with Virgin Records is worth $30 million.
1996 - Jarvis Cocker, Pulp singer walked free from Kensington police station after police failed to charge him with any criminal offence following his 'stage invasion', during Michael Jackson's performance at the Brit Awards 3 weeks earlier.
1997 - Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2005 - The front door of Ozzy Osbourne's childhood home in Birmingham went up for sale on eBay because the current owner was fed up with fans defacing it.
March 12th:
1939 - Artie Shaw and his band recorded "Deep Purple."
1955 - The Dave Brubeck Quartet made their debute at Carnegie Hall in New York.
1958 - A Philadelphia court sentenced jazz singer Billie Holiday to a year's probation after being found guilty of narcotics possession.
1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman at Marylebone Registry office.
1969 - George Harrison and wife Patti were arrested in Esher, Surrey, charged with cannabis resin possession after police found 120 joints in their house.
1974 - Harry Nilsson and John Lennon caused a disturbance at LA Troubador Club. Lennon hurled insults at the performing Smothers Brothers & punched their manager before being forcibly removed & charged with hitting a photographer in the eye.
1981 - Bow Wow Wow were forced to cancel the first dates of a
UK tour after Greater London Council stated that singer Annabella Lwin aged 15
would be guilty of truancy.
1998 - Liam Gallagher of Oasis was banned from flying with Cathay Pacific Airways after an incident on a flight from Hong Kong to Australia.
2001 - Judy Garland's 'Over The Rainbow' was voted the Song Of The Century in a poll published in America; musicians, critics and fans compiled the list by the RIA.
2003 - The Chinese government ordered the Rolling Stones to cut four songs from their performances in Shanghai and Beijing. The banned songs were "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Beast of Burden," & "Let's Spend the Night Together."
March 13th:
1958 - The Recording Industry Association of America introduced its awards for record sales, (RIAA).
1965 - Eric Clapton left The Yardbirds, dissatisfied with the group's 'too commercial' direction.
1975 -Tammy Wynette and George Jones divorced after six years of marriage.
1977 - Iggy Pop and David Bowie kicked off a 22 date tour at Le Plateau Theatre, Montreal, Canada, support act was Blondie.
1983 - Marvin Gaye sang the U.S. national anthem at the NBA All-Star game.
1984 - MTV premired its weekly "Top 20 Video Countdown" show.
1985 - Bob Geldof and Midge Ure received 'the best selling a side' award at the 30th Ivor Novello Awards for 'Do They Know It's Christmas.'
1987 - Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1988 - Michael Jackson bought a ranch in Santa Ynez, California that he called "Neverland."
1990 - MTV available in the Middle East with the launch of MTV Europe in Israel.
1996 - Several people are hurt when angry fans riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have been waiting all night for Ramones tickets and find out they are all gone.
March 14th:
1956 - The movie "Rock Around the Clock" (with Bill Haley) made its premier in Washington, DC.
1960 - Sam Cooke began his first tour of the West Indies.
1963 - Gerry Marsden (Gerry & the Pacemakers) was fined 60 pounds at Uxbridge Magistrates court for evading British customs with a German guitar.
1972 - "Grease" opened off-Broadway, where it ran for the next decade for a total of 3,388 performances.
1973 - David Bowie collapsed at the end of his Valentines Day Show at New York's Radio City Music Hall reportedly due to total exhaustion.
1975 - Flea and Chad Smith from The Red Hot Chili Peppers were arrested for sexually harassing a woman on Daytona beach; they were each fined $1,000.
1981 - Eric Clapton was admitted to United Hospital in St. Paul, MN, after a serious attack of bleeding ulcers. Clapton cancelled a 60-date tour of the U.S.
1985 - Tina Turner plays Wembley Arena.
1986 - Frank Zappa appeared on 'Miami Vice' as a crime boss named "Mr. Frankie."
1990 - Michael Jackson was voted artist of the decade at the annual 'Soul Train Awards.'
1998 - Ray Charles made his first solo performance in 53 years on the television shopping network QVC.
2006 - U2 topped Rolling Stone magazine's annual list of the year's biggest money earners from 2005 with £78m;The Rolling Stones second with £47m; The Eagles third with £32m; Paul McCartney was in fourth place with £28m and Elton John in fifth with £24.8m.
March 15th:
1958 - "The Dick Clark Show" debuted on ABC-TV. Connie Francis, Pat Boone and Jerry Lee Lewis were the first performers to appear on the show.
1968 - "LIFE" magazine called Jimi Hendrix "the most spectacular guitarist in the world."
1969 - Tyrannosaurus Rex singer Marc Bolan's first book of poetry 'The Warlock Of Love' was published, priced at 12 and 6.
1972 - Radio station KHJ in Los Angeles is raided at 7 a.m. Police were called by the station's fans who thought there must be something amiss as Robert W. Morgan played Donny Osmond's Puppy Love over and over again from 6 a.m.
1974 - The Emerson, Lake and Palmer movie "Pictures at an Exhibition" premiered in Los Angeles, CA.
1976 - Bette Midler bailed seven members of her entourage out of jail. They were arrested on cocaine and marijuana possession charges.
1989 - The Rolling Stones signed a 70m dollar contract; to play 50 North American dates. It was the largest contract in rock history.
1998 - The Tokyo area phone system went down due to high activity attributable to people trying to reserve tickets for an upcoming Glay concert.
1999 - Relatives of Buddy Holly filed a suit against MCA Records for allegedly hoarding royalty payments, forging contracts and illegally producing albums without the consent of the family.
2000 - Mick Jagger was ordered to increase his child support payments to Brazilian model Luciana Morad from £3,235 a month to £5,888 ($10,000). Mick was asked to confirm that he was the father of her child by the court, while Ms Morad was seeking a £3.8 million ($10 million) settlement.
March 16th:
1942 - Fats Waller recorded "The Jitterbug Waltz" in New York.
1959 - Plans are announced for the first American rock-and-roll package tour to hit Europe. Performers including Bobby Darin, Conway Twitty, Duane Eddy and Pony Tails are contracted, along with UK star Cliff Richard.
1964 - DJ Alan Freed is charged with income-tax evasion by federal grand jury probing into radio and record company payola, less than two years after he admits guilt in the same investigation.
1964 - The Beatles set a new record for advance sales in the U.S. with 2,100,000 copies of their latest single 'Can't Buy Me Love.'
1969 - The musical "1776" opened on Broadway.
1971 - Simon and Garfunkel win Three Grammy Awards; "Record of the Year"; "Song of the Year" and "Album of the Year" for 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'.
1972 - Ricky Nelson began his first British tour.
1974 - The new $15 million Opry House holds its inaugural show in Nashville, opened by Richard Nixon.
1989 - Bez from The Happy Mondays was arrested at Manchester Airport moments before boarding a flight to Belfast for a gig and charged for trying to leave the country, breaking bail conditions set after a previous arrest.
1992 - Trouble broke out during a Metallica gig at Orlando Arena when fans dangled an usher by his ankles from the balcony. The band was charged $38,000 (£22,353) for repairs and cleaning after the audience trashed the building.
2002 . . Liza Minnelli takes her fourth trip down the aisle when she marries her producer boyfriend David Gest.
March 17th:
1950 - WDIA Memphis becomes the first on-air black station in the southern states
1962 - Ray Charles started his own record label, Tangerine.
1967 - The Stax Package tour opened in London with Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, Carla Thomas, Sam & Dave and Booker T And The MG's.
1968 - The Bee Gees made their U.S. television debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show." They performed "To Love Somebody" and "Words."
1981 - Blues Project, with Al Kooper, Steve Katz and Roy Blumenfeld, reunite for one-off concert at Bonds in New York.
1982 - Samuel George Jr. of the Capitols was stabbed to death during a family argument. He was 39 years old.
1990 - Whitney Houston headlines an AIDS benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The concert, dubbed "That's What Friends Are For," also celebrates the 15th anniversary of Arista Records.
1995 - Madonna premiered the "Bedtime Stories" video. All the 1,500 guests wore pajamas and had teddy bears.
1997 - The RIAA announced that the Eagles' "Greatest Hits" album had tied Michael Jackson's "Thriller" as the all-time best-selling album in the U.S.
2004 - The Kinks singer Ray Davies received his CBE medal from the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to the music industry.
March 18th:
1902 - Enrico Caruso recorded 10 arias for the Gramophone Company. He was the first well-known performer to make a record.
1959 - EMI announces that it has now stopped all production of 78 rpm discs
1965 - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Bill Wyman were arrested for "insulting behavior" in London. The act was urinating on the wall of the Francis Garage. They were fined £5 each
1967 - Pink Floyd signed to EMI Records in the UK.
1973 - Wings played a benefit concert for a drug-counselling agency 'Release' at The Hard Rock, UK.
1976 - The Film 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' featuring David Bowie premiered in London.
1982 - Driving home from a basketball game in Philadelphia, soul singer Teddy Pendergrass crashed his Rolls Royce severely injuring his spinal cord, resulting in him being paralyzed from the waist down.
1989 - A radio station in California arranged to have all it's Cat Stevens Records destroyed by having a steamroller run over them in protest of the singer's support of Ayatollah Khomeni.
1994 - Three weeks before his suicide, four guns and 25 boxes of ammo were confiscated from Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) after his wife, Courtney Love, called police fearing he was going to commit suicide.
1998 - Michael Jackson was dressed as an Arab woman when and his son went shopping at a toy store in Munich, Germany.
2004 - Courtney Love exposed her breasts during an appearance on David Letterman's TV talk show. The singer who had her back to the audience flashed at the presenter while singing the song Danny Boy.
March 19th:
1957 - Elvis Presley buys the Memphis mansion Graceland from Mrs. Ruth Brown-Moore
1958 - Big Records released 'Our Song' by a teenage duo from Queens, New York, Tom and Jerry. The duo become famous in the '60s under their real names, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
1965 - Tailor And Cutter Magazine ran an article asking The Rolling Stones to start wearing ties, with the current fashion tie-makers were facing financial disaster.
1966 - Gary Leeds (Walker Brothers) was abducted by British students trying to raise money for charity.
1970 - Rolling Stone magazine reveals that opening lyrics to John Lennon's 'Come Together' were written by Chuck Berry for 'You Can't Catch Me' - 'Here come old flat top, he come groovin' up slowly
1974 - The Jefferson Airplane began their first tour under their new name Jefferson Starship.
1978 - Billy Joel made his UK debut live at London's Dury Lane Theatre.
1982 - Randy Rhoads died at the age of 25 in a plane crash. The plane was buzzing Ozzy Osbourne's tour bus when it crashed. The pilot and another female passenger were also killed.
1985 - "Spin Magazine" began publishing.
1992 - Jet Harris from The Shadows was banned from driving for three years and fined £120 for drunk driving.
2005 - Former Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell's London home was broken into. The burgular left obscene notes on the walls, stole a necklace that used to belong to Liz Taylor among other things and had thrown milk and Ribena fruit drink on the walls.
March 20th:
1935 - "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on American radio.
1959 - Bobby Rydell made his first TV appearance, on "American Bandstand."
1965 - The first ever Motown package tour arrives in London, with Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, Temptations and the Supremes.
1968 - Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Richie Furay and Jim Mesina, were arrested in Los Angeles for 'being at a place where it is suspected marijuana is being used.' Clapton is later found innocent, the others pay small fines.
1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in Gibraltar.
1971 - Janis Joplin started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Kris Kristofferson's 'Me And Bobby McGee'. Joplin had died the year before on 4th October, aged 27.
1977 - Lou Reed was banned from appearing The London Palladium because of his punk image.
1980 - Radio Caroline, the original North Sea pirate radio station, sinks.
1980 - 28 year- old Joseph Riviera held up the Asylum Records office in New York demanding to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles. Riviera wanted to talk to them to see if they would finance his trucking operation.
1990 - Gloria Estefan broke several bones in her back when her tour bus is involved in an accident
1991 - Conor, Eric Clapton's 4 year old son, falls to his death from a 53rd story New York City apartment window. Clapton later writes the song "Tears in Heaven."
2002 - The papers report that Robbie Williams had become a priest: ordained via the Internet by the non-denominational Universal Ministries and officiated the wedding of Billy Morrison from rock band The Cult and Jennifer Holliday.
March 21st:
1941 - Singer Paula Kelly joined Glenn Miller's band.
1952 - Alan Freed hosts Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland Ohio, this was the first sign that black R&B has a large white following. Freed promoted the show from WJW Radio, selling 18,000 tickets in advance for the show which featured Charles Brown, Moonglows, and Clyde McPhatter.
1973 - The BBC banned all teenybopper acts appearing on UK TV show, 'Top Of The Pops' after a riot following a David Cassidy performance.
1976 - Iggy Pop and David Bowie were involved in a drug bust at their hotel room in Rochester, New York.
1982 - Donny Osmond starred in the title role on Broadway of "Little Johnny Jones."
1984 - Strawberry Fields, an area in Central Park bought by Yoko Ono in memory of her late husband was opened.
1987 - The Beatles had a revival in America as the group holds down the 4 Top slots on US CD chart: 1. Hard Day's Night; 2. Please Please Me; 3. Beatles for Sale; 4. With the Beatles.
1989 - Dick Clark announced that he would no longer be hosting the show "American Bandstand." He had been the host for 33 years.
1991 - The inventor of The Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars Leo Fender, sadly died from Parkinson's disease.
1997 - Snoop Doggy Dog was sentenced to three years probation and fined $1,000 for a firearms violation after a handgun was found in his car when he was stopped for a traffic violation.
2001 - Michael Jackson's interior decorator told The Times newspaper that the singer kept 17 life size dolls, adult and child sizes, all fully dressed in his bedroom for 'company.'
March 22nd:
1956 - Sammy Davis, Jr. starred in the play, "Mr. Wonderful," in New York City.
1958 - Hank Williams Jr. made his stage debut in Swainsboro, GA, aged eight.
1965 - Bob Dylan's first electric album "Bring it All Back Home" was released.
1970 - Electric Circus club in New York, is damaged by a bomb.
1971 - US police arrested all the members from The Allman Brothers Band for heroin and marijuana possession.
1974 - Ten Years After play their last gig - at the Rainbow Theatre, London,
1977 - John Denver's TV special "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" was aired on ABC.
1989 - Dick Clark announces he'll be leaving "American Bandstand" after 33 years.
1997 - Shock-rock band Marilyn Manson is forced to cut short a show at the Nimitz Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii, after lead singer Manson injures his hand during the performance. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, falls onstage and cuts an artery in his hand
2000 - Yusuf Islam the former singer Cat Stevens joined the campaign to save the Section 28 ban on the promotion of homosexuality in UK schools. He praised peers for fighting the government's plans to scrap Section 28.
2004 - Ozzy Osbourne was voted the nation's favourite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet Earth. The 55 year old singer topped a Yahoo poll as the face people wanted to represent them to alien life.
March 23rd:
1961 - Elvis Presley sets a new UK chart record - three consecutive No. 1 singles: It's Now or Never, Are You Lonesome Tonight and Wooden Heart
1969 - 30,000 people attend 'The Rally for Decency' at the Orange Bowl in Miami in response to Jim Morrison's 'indecent' pants-dropping incident a few weeks earlier.
1972 - The film of The Concert For Bangla Desh featuring George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton premiered in New York.
1978 - The Police signed with A&M Records.
1980 - A gunman holds up Elektra Records in New York demanding to speak to Eagles or Jackson Browne. He gives up and leaves when told they live in California!
1985 - Former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man John Fogerty went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Centerfield.'
1987 - The Soul Train Music Awards debuted. It was the first televised awards ceremony to pay exclusive homage to black producers, songwriters and recording artists in the music industry.
1988 - Mick Jagger makes his first onstage solo appearance in Japan in front of a audience of 46,000 . The Rolling Stones had previously been banned from the country by Japanese authorities.
1992 - Janet Jackson signed with Virgin Records for $16,000,000.
1999 - Michael Jackson announced that he would donate the proceeds from his next two concerts to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and the Red Cross.
March 24th:
1941 - Glenn Miller began work on his first motion picture for 20th Century Fox. The film was "Sun Valley Serenade."
1945 - The Billboard published the first American LP chart. Nat King Cole was at the No.1 spot with 'A Collection Of Favourites.'
1958 - Elvis Presley becomes Private 53310761 as he is sworn into the U.S. Army in Memphis, Tenn. US.
1965 - Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand. It was the first date of the Rolling Stones anniversary tour
1973 - During a Lou Reed show in Buffalo, New York, a fan jumped on stage and bit Lou on his bottom. The man was thrown out of the theatre and Reed completed the show.
1976 - Transvestite singer Wayne County appeared in court charged with assault after an incident at New York club CBGB's. County had attacked Dictators singer Handsome Dick Manitobe with a mike stand fracturing his collarbone.
1978 - The British courts granted British record companies the rights to seize bootleg and pirate recordings.
1991 - The Black Crowes were dropped as the opening act on ZZ Top's tour for repeatedly criticizing Miller Beer. Miller Beer was sponsoring the tour.
1998 - UK singer Mark Morrison was jailed for a year after trying to con his way out of doing community service. He sent his minder Gabriel Mafereka who wore sunglasses and hid his hair under a hat so he looked like the star.
2002 - At 17 years and 255 days old, Gareth Gates became the youngest male solo artist to score a UK No.1 with his debut release 'Unchained Melody'. He had won second place on TV's 'Pop Idol' show.
March 25th:
1958 . . At Capitol Tower, Gene Vincent was joined unofficially by an un-credited Eddie Cochran on bass backing vocals, on 25th to 29th March recording sessions (except the 28th, when Eddie was at Goldstar Studios cutting Summertime Blues) 16 superb masters were produced.
1961 - Elvis Presley performed his last live show for the next eight years at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The show raised $62,000 for the U.S.S. Arizona memorial fund.
1967 - The Who made its U.S. concert debut at RKO 58th Street Theatre, N.Y City.
1968 -The 58th & final episode of The Monkees Television series was broadcast in the USA.
1969 - John and Yoko started their 'bed-in' at The Amsterdam Hilton hotel.
1976 - While working on his 4th album "Pretender", US singer songwriter Jackson Browne's wife Phyllis Major committed suicide.
1985 - Prince wins an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film "Purple Rain."
1990 - Motley Crue's Tommy Lee was arrested for mooning at the audience during a gig in Augusta. Lee was charged with indecent exposure.
1995 - Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder was rescued after a riptide carried him 250 feet offshore in New Zealand.
2000 - NSYNC set a new world record after selling a million tickets in one day for the group's forthcoming tour, netting them over £25 million ($42.5 million).
2002 - The seven-year mystery of missing the Richey Edwards, Manic Street Preachers guitarist when human feet were found near where he vanished in 1995.
March 26th:
1965 - It was announced that Jeff Beck would take Eric Clapton's place in the Yardbirds.
1964 - "Funny Girl" opened on Broadway starring Barbara Streisand.
1965 - Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman all received electric shocks from a faulty microphone on stage during a Rolling Stones show in Denmark. Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious for several minutes.
1965 - The Walker Brothers made their UK TV debut on 'Ready Steady Go!'
1970 - Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary pleads guilty at a Washington district court to taking immoral liberties with a fourteen-year-old girl. The group had just won a Grammy award for best children's recording
1975 - The film "Tommy" premiered in London. The movie was based on the rock opera by The Who.
1976 - Anita Pallenberg the girlfriend of Rolling Stone Keith Richards gave birth to a baby boy, Tara, sadly he died at ten weeks old from pneumonia.
1980 - The Police became the first Western pop group to play in Bombay, India for over ten years when they played a one off gig in the city.
1986 - Guns N' Roses was signed to Geffen Records.
1988 - Man in the Mirror gives Michael Jackson his fourth consecutive Hot 100 No. 1 from his LP Bad, setting a record.
1995 - An opera based on the life of tennis player Martina Navratilova premiered at New York's Carnegie Hall.
2006 - Total Guitar magazine readers voted the guitar solo by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven' as the greatest guitar solo of all time. The 1971 track was voted ahead of tracks by Van Halen, Queen, Jimi Hendrix and The Eagles by its UK readers
March 27th:
1950 - Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner, writer the song "Misty", became one of the first jazz instrumentalists to give a solo concert.
1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton in Yardbirds
1966 - Roy Orbison fell off a motorbike while scrambling at Hawkstone Park, Birmingham, UK, fracturing his foot. He had to play the remaining tour dates sat on a stool and walking on crutches.
1967 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney were awarded the Ivor Novello award for 'Michelle', the most performed song in the UK in 1966.
1971 - WNBC, the New York radio station banned Brewer & Shipley's song 'One Toke Over the Line' because of its alleged drug references. Other stations around the country followed.
1973 - Jerry Garcia was stopped for speeding on the New Jersey turnpike, but he on bail for $2,000 when the police find pot, cocaine and LSD in his car.
1979 - Bruce Springsteen's first video, "Rosalita," premiered on BBC-TV.
1987 - U2 filmed their video "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in L.A.
1991 - Donnie Wahlberg of The New Kids on the Block was arrested in Louisville, KY, for first-degree arson. He allegedly poured vodka on a hotel carpet and set it on fire.
1998 - Construction work began on Alice Cooper's new Coopers'town Restaurant in Phoenix, AZ.
2004 - Local council officials planned to have a street named after The Darkness in their hometown Lowestoft, Norfolk in honour of their recent world-wide success.
March 28th:
1964 - Pirate station Radio Caroline begins broadcasting, from the high seas just outside British territorial waters. The first voice heard is Simon Dee with the immortal words 'Good Morning Everybody. This is Radio Caroline on 199 metres, your all day music station."
1969 - Joe Cocker played his first American concert.
1976 - Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt and Alan Lancaster from Status Quo were arrested after an incident at Vienna Airport, all three were released on bail.
1979 - Eric Clapton married</