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Significant Events In Music This Week - 3.21 - 3.27
March 21st In Music
1952 - Cleveland stakes a claim on rock history when the Moondog Coronation Ball is held at the Cleveland Arena. Organized by the WJW DJ Alan Freed ("Moondog" on the air), it is widely considered the first rock concert. It may also be one of the shortest, as it is shut down after one song. (Image)
1981 - REO Speedwagon went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Keep On Loving You', the group's first top 40 hit and first No. 1.
1987 - U2 scored their third UK No. 1 album with The Joshua Tree featuring the singles 'Where The Streets Have No Name', & 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. The album became the fastest selling in UK history and the first album to sell over a million CDs, spending a total of 156 weeks on the UK chart. Also a US No. 1.
2004 - Ozzy Osbourne was named the nation's favourite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet earth. The 55-year-old singer topped a poll as the face people want to represent them to alien life. The poll of internet users was carried out following the discovery of signs of water on Mars. Ozzy won 26 per cent of the vote. A spokesman for Yahoo! News said: 'As the world waits desperately for signs of alien life, we decided to ask our users who they thought was best suited for this most auspicious of roles. Ozzy is a great choice but I'm not sure what the Martians would make of his individual approach to the English language.'
Birthdays:
1940 - Chip Taylor. American songwriter, noted for writing ‘Angel of the Morning’ and ‘Wild Thing’ a major hit for The Troggs in 1966
1941 - John Boylan. American producer and songwriter. Worked with Rick Nelson, the Association, the Dillards, and co-produced Boston's first album. He also managed Linda Ronstadt and introduced her to a then unknown group of musicians who went on to become her backing band in 1971, and later became the Eagles. Born in New York City.
1946 - Ray Dorset. English guitarist, singer, songwriter, founder of Mungo Jerry, who had the 1970 US No. 3 single 'In The Summertime' as well as the hits 'Baby Jump' and 'Lady Rose'. Born in Ashford, Middlesex, England.
1949 - Eddie Money. American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who is well known for the 1970s and 1980s songs like 'Baby Hold On', 'Two Tickets To Paradise', 'Maybe I'm A Fool'. Born in Brooklyn, New York. Money died on 9.13.2019 age 70.
1950 - Roger Hodgson. English musician, singer and songwriter, known as the former co-frontman with Supertramp. He composed and sang the majority of their hits such as 'Dreamer', 'Give a Little Bit', 'Breakfast in America', 'Take the Long Way Home', 'The Logical Song' and 'It's Raining Again'. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
March 22nd In Music
1967 - The Who make their US stage debut, performing at the Paramount Theater in New York City.
1974 - The Eagles released their third studio album On the Border the first Eagles album to feature guitarist Don Felder. Three singles were released from the album: 'Already Gone', 'James Dean' and 'Best of My Love'.
1975 - Led Zeppelin enjoy a six-week run at No. 1 on the US album chart with Physical Graffiti the group's fourth US No. 1 album. On its first day of release in the US, the album shipped a million copies, no other album in the history of Atlantic records had generated so many sales. Physical Graffiti has now been certified 16 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 16 million copies.
1975 - Frankie Valli's unrequited love ballad "My Eyes Adored You" hits No. 1 in the US.
1980 - Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)' started a four week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart. The track, which was the group’s only US chart topper, was also a No. 1 in the UK, Germany, Australia, Italy and in many other countries around the world. Pink Floyd received a Grammy nomination for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group for the song, but lost to Bob Seger's 'Against The Wind.'
Birthdays:
1943 - Keith Relf. English musician, The Yardbirds who had the 1965 US No. 6 single 'For Your Love'. He also sang an early version of 'Dazed and Confused' in live Yardbirds concerts, a song later recorded by the band's successor group Led Zeppelin. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England. Relf died on 5.14.1976 aged 33.
1947 - Patrick Olive. Percussionist and bassist for Hot Chocolate, who had the 1975 US No. 3 single 'You Sexy Thing' and over 25 other Top 40 hits. Born in Grenada.
March 23rd In Music
1983 - ZZ Top release their album Eliminator, which features Billy Gibbons' custom hot rod on the cover. Thanks to memorable videos and the contemporary sound using synthesizers for "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" featuring the car and various babes, the album sells like crazy. In 1996, it is certified Diamond, for sales of over 10 million in America.
1985 - Former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man John Fogerty went to No. 1 on the US album chart with his third solo studio album Centerfield. This was Fogerty's first album in nine years after he decided to take a long break from the music business because of legal battles with his record company.
2002 - The O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack, featuring a popular revival of the mountain ballad "Man of Constant Sorrow," takes bluegrass to No. 1 in America.
March 24th In Music
1977 - Fleetwood Mac released 'Dreams' from their eleventh studio album Rumours which became their first and only US No. 1 hit single. Stevie Nicks wrote the song in early 1976 at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California
1985 - ‘Easy Lover' by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins was at No. 1 on the UK singles chart. Bailey was a former vocalist with Earth, Wind & Fire.
Birthdays:
1946 - Lee Oskar. Danish harmonica player from American funk band War. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was the best-selling US album of 1973. They also scored the 1973 US No. 2 single 'Cisco Kid'. In 1983 Oskar formed a company Lee Oskar Harmonicas to manufacture high-quality harmonicas. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1949 - Steve Lang. Canadian musician best known for his role as a bassist in the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984. He died on 2.4.2017 aged 67.
1951 - Dougie Thompson. Scottish musician who was the bassist with progressive rock band Supertramp. Thomson played with Supertramp on all of their most famous albums: Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis?, Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America. Born in Glasgow, Scotland.
March 25th In Music
1958 - Ray Charles records "Georgia On My Mind."
1963 - Johnny Cash recorded the June Carter/Merle Kilgore song 'Ring Of Fire.' The song was originally recorded by June's sister Anita Carter, on her 1963 album Folk Songs Old and New as '(Love's) Ring of Fire'. Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by 'Mexican trumpets'. It became the biggest hit of Johnny Cash's career, staying at No. 1 on the US charts for seven weeks.
1967 - The Turtles started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Happy Together'. The song was written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, former members of a band known as The Magicians.
1972 - America started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with their debut hit 'Horse With No Name' and the group's self-titled debut album also takes the top spot on the Albums chart. The group becomes one of the most successful acts of the decade, with subsequent hits "Sister Golden Hair," "Ventura Highway" and "Tin Man." The group scored eight US top 40 hits during the 70s.
1972 - Deep Purple's album Machine Head is released in America. Most of it was recorded in their hotel after the Montreux Casino, where they planned to record it, burned down, a story told in the song "Smoke On The Water."
1977 - Bob Seger's ‘Night Moves’ album goes Platinum.
Birthdays:
1947 - Elton John. Singer, songwriter, pianist, (Born Reginald Dwight), who had the 1973 US No. 1 single 'Crocodile Rock' along with seven other US No. 1's. He had the biggest selling single of all time in 1997 with 'Candle In The Wind 97', plus has scored over 50 UK Top 40 hit singles. John has sold over 150m records worldwide. Elton and Bernie Taupin wrote the No. 1 (with Kiki Dee) 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' under the pseudonyms Ann Orson and Carte Blanche. Born in Pinner, Middlesex, England.
March 26 In Music
1969 - Marvin Gaye was at No. 1 on the UK singles chart, with 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'. The song was first recorded by The Miracles and had also been a million seller in 1967 for Gladys Knight and the Pips.
1977 - Hall and Oates started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Rich Girl', the duo's first US No. 1. Hall and Oates have sold an estimated 40 million records, making them the third-bestselling music duo of all time.
2006 - Readers of Total Guitar magazine 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. On the 20th anniversary of the original release of the song, it was announced via US radio sources that the song had logged up an estimated 2,874,000 radio plays, that if played back to back, would run for 44 years.
Birthdays:
1944 - Diana Ross. Lead singer of The Supremes. Born in Detroit, Michigan
1948 - Richard Tandy. English musician, keyboardist, with Electric Light Orchestra, who had the 1979 US No. 4 single 'Don't Bring Me Down' plus 26 other Top 40 hits. Born in Birmingham, England.
1948 - Steven Tyler. Multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of Aerosmith. Aerosmith scored the 1989 UK No. 13 single 'Love In An Elevator', their 1989 album Pump spent 53 weeks on the US charts, and the 1993 US No. 1 album Get A Grip, as well as the 1998 US No. 1 single 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing'. Born in Yonkers, New York.
1949 - Fran Sheehan. Bass, Boston, 1977 UK No. 22 single 'More Than A Feeling', 1986 US No. 1 single 'Amanda'). Boston have sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 31 million albums in the United States, of which 17 million were from their self-titled debut album and seven million were for their second album, Don't Look Back, making them one of the world's best-selling artists. Born in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
March 27th In Music
1965 - Jeff Beck joins The Yardbirds as a replacement for Eric Clapton.
1967 - The Young Rascals record "Groovin'."
1971 - New York radio station WNBC banned the song 'One Toke Over the Line' by Brewer & Shipley because of its alleged drug references. Other stations around the country followed.
1976 - Gary Wright's big hit "Dream Weaver" reaches its US chart peak of No. 2.
Birthdays:
1950 - Tony Banks. Keyboards, Genesis, 1986 US No. 1 single 'Invisible Touch’, plus over 15 other UK Top 40 hit singles & 6 UK No. 1 albums. Born in East Hoathly, East Sussex, England.
1953 - Walter Stocker. Australian soft rock band Air Supply who scored the 1980 UK No. 11 single 'All Out Of Love' and the 1981 US No. 1 single 'The One That You Love'. Also performed with The Babys and Humble Pie. Born in London, England.
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