March 9

Births

1930: Ornette Coleman (Jazz Sax Player)

1932: Keely Smith (Jazz Singer)

1933: Lloyd Price (R&B Singer)

1936: Mickey Gilley (Country Singer)

1942: Mark Lindsay (Singer for Paul Revere and the Raiders)

1944: Trevor Burton (Guitar for The Move)

1945: Robin Trower (Vocals & Guitar for Procol Harum & Solo)

1948: Jeffrey Osborne (Singer for LTD & Solo)

1948: Chris Thompson (Singer for Manfred Mann's Earth Band)

1958: Martin Fry (Lead Singer for ABC)

1966: Brendan Canty (Drummer for Fugazi)

1968: Robert Sledge (Drums for Ben Folds Five)

1968: Johnny Kelly (Drummer for Type O Negative & Danzig)

1969: Adam Siegel (Guitar for Suicidal Tendencies)

1980: Chingy (Howard Bailey, Jr.) (Rapper)

1987: Lil Bow Wow (Shad Gregory Moss) (Rapper)

Events

1964: The Statler Brothers show up at a Johnny Cash show in Canton, Ohio, and open the concert when he's late. Cash adds them as part of his touring cast for the next eight years.

1966: The Beach Boys started recording 'God Only Knows'.

1968: At this year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, 5th Dimension's "Up Up And Away" wins Record of the Year (as well as Best Vocal Group Performance), while the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album takes home Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Album, Best Engineered Record and Best Album Cover.

1970: The blues band formerly known as Earth take the stage at London's Roundhouse with a heavier sound and a new name -- Black Sabbath.

1976: For the second time, The Who's Keith Moon collapses while performing at a show, this time at the Boston Garden. Though drug and alcohol abuse are again the culprit, singer Roger Daltrey tells the crowd Moon is suffering from the flu. The gig ends, but the group plays another one for ticketholders on April 1.

1977: CBS-TV's family musical variety show The Jacksons ends its run.

1981: Robert Plant played a secret gig at Keele University, England with his new band The Honey Drippers.

1985: Dead Or Alive were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). It was the first No.1 for the production team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman who went on to produce over 100 UK Top 40 hits.

1985: Mick Jagger released his solo single 'Just Another Night' a No. 12 hit in the US and No. 32 on the UK charts.

1987: U2 released the album "The Joshua Tree".

1991: 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' gave The Clash their only UK No.1 single after the track was used for a Levi's TV advertisement. The track was first released in 1982 from their album Combat Rock album.

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: Notorious BIG was gunned down and killed as he left a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Born Christopher Wallace the rapper was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars Sinai Hospital. He was 24 years old.

2000: Da Brat was arrested and charged with one felony count of aggravated battery for allegedly pistol-whipping a woman at a club in Buckhead. She was released after posting a $1,000 bond.

2004: Tom Jones' manager -- and son -- Mark orders the 63-year-old sex symbol to stop wearing tight leather pants onstage.

2005: 53-year-old Danny Joe Brown, the original lead singer of Molly Hatchet, died from renal failure due to complications from diabetes.

2007: Brad Delp lead singer of US rock band Boston committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in at his home in the New Hampshire town of Atkinson.

2010: Lil Wayne was sentenced to a year in prison at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex after pleading guilty to gun possession. The charges were linked to his arrest in 2007 when a gun was found on his tour bus. His sentencing came after several delays; the first date was postponed to allow the rapper to have dental work and the second had to be rearranged after a fire broke out in the New York court complex.