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.

March 8

Births

1945: Micky Dolenz (Singer & Drummer for The Monkees)

1946: Randy Meisner (Bass & Vocals for The Eagles & Poco)

1947: Michael Allsup (Guitar for Three Dog Night)

1948: Mel Galley (Guitar for Whitesnake)

1957: Clive Burr (Drummer for Iron Maiden)

1958: Gary Numan (New Wave Singer)

1968: Shawn Mullins (Singer / Songwriter)

1979: Tom Chaplin (Singer for Keane)

1979: Andy Ross (Guitar, Keyboards & Vocals for OK Go)

1982: Kat Von D (Tattoo Artist)

Events

1963: The Four Tops sign with the Motown label -- as a jazz-pop act -- for the sum of $400.

1964: The Dave Clark Five appear for the first time on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show, performing "Do You Love Me" and "Can’t You See That She’s Mine." It will be the first of eighteen appearances for the group.

1968: Promoter Bill Graham's East Coast version of the Fillmore, his legendary San Francisco rock ballroom, opens in the East Village section of New York City. Dubbed, appropriately enough, the Fillmore East, its first show features Big Brother and the Holding Company, Albert King, and Tim Buckley.

1969: The Small Faces break up following the departure of lead singer Steve Marriott. Marriott goes on to form Humble Pie, while the Small Faces eventually regroup with new lead singer Rod Stewart and become simply Faces.

1970: Diana Ross gives her first solo concert performance, appearing at a show in Framingham, MA.

1971: After activist Abbie Hoffman sends them a tape of the song, Radio Hanoi plays Jimi Hendrix' version of the Star-Spangled Banner.

1973: Ron Mckernan, keyboard player with The Grateful Dead, died aged 27 from liver failure brought on by alcohol poisoning.

1973: Paul McCartney is fined $250 for growing cannabis on his Scotland farm, claiming that while the plants are his, they were grown from seeds given him by a friend, and he wasn't sure what sort of seeds they were. Right.

1974: Rising from the ashes of Free and Mott The Hoople, the newly-formed Bad Company play their first live gig, at Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

1993: "Beavis and Butthead" premiered on MTV as a series.

2003: Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler was injured when the Honda motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a Fiat Punto car. The 53-year-old singer and guitarist suffered a broken collar bone and six broken ribs in the accident which happened in London's smart Belgravia district in mid-morning traffic.

2009: A blue plaque in honour of The Who drummer Keith Moon was unveiled on the site of the Marquee Club in Soho, London, where in 1964 the band played the first of 29 gigs there. Fans on scooters turned up to pay tribute to Moon, who was 32 when he died of an accidental overdose in 1978.

March 7

Births

1943: Chris White (Bass for The Zombies)

1944: Townes Van Zandt (Folk Singer / Songwriter)

1945: Arthur Lee (Guitar & Lead Vocals for Love)

1946: Peter Wolf (Singer for The J. Geils Band)

1946: Matthew Fisher (Organ for Procol Harum)

1952: Ernie Isley (Multi-Instrumentalist for The Isley Brothers)

1952: Jules Shear (Singer)

1962: Taylor Dayne (Pop Singer)

Events

1955: In a little-noted but fateful development, Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" becomes the first country song to cross over to the Billboard R&B charts.

1962: The Beatles appear on the BBC for the first time, recording for the radio show Here We Go, also marking the band's first full live performance caught on tape, and the first performance in what would become their trademark collarless suits designed by Beno Dorn.

1967: Actress Sandra Dee officially files for divorce from singer Bobby Darin.

1971: Gilley's nightclub opens in Pasadena, Texas. Named for part-owner Mickey Gilley, the home of the mechanical bull provides the inspiration for the 1980 movie "Urban Cowboy," which results in a short-term country trend.

1976: Elton John becomes only the second rock act (after the Beatles) to be honored with a statue in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London.

1986: Randy Travis makes his debut on the Grand Ole Opry. After an introduction from Little Jimmy Dickens, he performs "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".

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.'

1988: American female impersonator and actor Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), died in his sleep of heart failure aged 42.

2001: Ex-Trammps member Jerry Collins is convicted of attempted murder after being found of bashing his wife's head into a sink and also pistol-whipping her. He is sentenced to a maximum of 35 years.

2006: Rod Stewart is ordered to pay $3 million to Harrah's in Las Vegas after defaulting on a show in 2000.

2009: Rapper Coolio was charged with drug possession after being arrested at Los Angeles International Airport. The 45-year-old, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr, was later released on $10,000 bail.

March 6

Births

1905: Bob Wills (Country Artist)

1923: Wes Montgomery (Jazz Guitarist)

1937: Domingo Samudio (Singer for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)

1944: Mary Wilson (Singer for The Supremes)

1946: David Gilmour (Guitar & Vocals for Pink Floyd)

1947: Kiki Dee (Singer)

1964: Wayne Gacy (Stephen Bier)(Keyboards for Marilyn Manson)

1970: Chris Broderick (Lead Guitar for Megadeth)

1974: Beanie Sigel (Dwight Grant) (Rapper)

1974: Guy Garvey (Singer for Elbow)

1977: Bubba Sparxxx (Warren Anderson Mathis ) (Rapper)

Events

1958: Sam Cooke begins his first residency as a performer at the legendary Copacabana club in New York, but much like Elvis' 50s attempt at Vegas, supper club audiences prove not quite ready for Cooke's brand of proto-soul.

1962: Frank Sinatra records "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues," his last release for Capitol Records before recording exclusively for his own label, Reprise.

1964: After rumors swirl of a torrid off-screen romance with co-star Richard Burton on the set of her latest movie, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor is divorced by her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher.

1970: On trial for his role in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, Charles Manson assembles a collection of home recordings to help pay for legal expenses. Entitled LIE, the cover mocks a typical Life magazine cover.

1973: New York City immigration director Sol Marks orders John Lennon's visa extension canceled after just five days.

1973: UK promoters reach out to Colonel Tom Parker in order to get Elvis Presley to make his first appearance in the country, at London's Earl's Court, but Parker, a Dutch immigrant secretly in the US illegally, declines on fears that his status would be discovered.

1977: Diana Ross' second TV special, entitled simply An Evening With Diana Ross, airs on NBC.

1982: Dick Clark donates his original American Bandstand podium to the Smithsonian.

1989: Smokey Robinson published his first biography, Inside My Life, in which he reveals for the first time that he once struggled with an addiction to crack.

1989: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith becomes the proud parent of his third child, Chelsea Anna.

1998: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher appeared handcuffed in a Brisbane court on charges of head butting a fan during a gig in Australia. Gallagher was released on bail.

1999: George Jones is seriously injured in a one-car accident while driving home in Nashville. The wreck occurs while Jones tries to play his next single, "Choices," for his stepdaughter via cell phone. Authorities later find an opened vodka bottle in the car.

2000: With his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, Eric Clapton becomes the first person inducted three times. (His first two inductions came as members of the Yardbirds and Cream.)

2000: Foxy Brown crashed her car into a fence in Brooklyn, NY. She was admitted for medical attention and released the next morning. Brown was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle by police.

2004: While checking out of his New York hotel, David Crosby leaves behind a bag containing marijuana and an unlicensed handgun; when he returns for the bag, he is nabbed by police, but is soon released on $3,500 bail.

2007: Having had his father's body exhumed and examined by doctors, Jay Richardson, son of J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, confirms that no foul play took place aboard the plane which crashed in 1959, killing Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly.

2010: R&B singer D'Angelo was arrested at the wheel of his Range Rover after trying to pay $40 for sex with an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute. The incident happened in New York City.