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.
