Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits (1949)
Jerry Speiser - Men At Work (1953)
Pat Metheny - jazz rock guitarist (1954)
Danny Shirley - Confederate Railroad (1956)
Jurgen Dehmel - Nena (1958)
Suzanne Vega (1959)
Roy Hay - Culture Club (1961)
Bragi Olaffson - Sugarcubes (1962)
Sir Mix-A-Lot (1963)
They Are Missed:
Pete Meaden, the Who's publicist and manager in their "High Number" days, committed suicide in London in 1978 by ingesting an overdose of barbituates. A dedicated mod, he introduced the band members to the lifestyle and, with the assistance of Who manager Kit Lambert, turned them into the subculture's figureheads. He was 35.
Joe Tex died of a heart attack in 1982.
Kyu Sakamoto was killed in a plane crash in 1985. He was 43. Had the 1963 US #1 & UK #6 single 'Sukiyaki', the first Japanese artist to hit the top of the US singles chart.
Modern composer and Sonic Youth mentor John Cage died in New York in 1992.
Born today in 1929, country icon Buck Owens. He scored twenty #1 hits on the Billboard country music charts, pioneered what has come to be called the Bakersfield sound—a reference to Bakersfield, California. Died March 25, 2006.
History:
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.
Frankie Lymon left the Teenagers to go solo in 1957.
The Crests recorded "16 Candles" in 1958.
In 1960, Pete Best auditioned to become The Silver Beatles' drummer and was asked to travel to Hamburg in Germany for the bands next set of dates. Before leaving for Hamburg, The Silver Beatles changed their name to simply, "The Beatles," the rest is history.
The Beatles first film ‘A Hard Days Night’ opened in 500 American cinemas in 1964 to rave reviews.
The Jefferson Airplane performed their first concert in 1965, at the opening of the Matrix Club in San Francisco.
The Beatles started their final U.S. tour at Chicago's International Amphitheatre in 1966. Earlier in the day, John Lennon held a press conference and apologized for his remark about the band being more popular than Jesus Christ.
Fleetwood Mac made their live debut at London's National Jazz & Blues Festival in 1967. Headliners for the festival were Donovan and Pink Floyd.
Bobbie Gentry's great "Ode to Billie Joe" entered the Top 40 in 1967. It went on to become her only #1 hit.
In 1968, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time when they rehearsed at a studio in Lisle Street in London’s West End. The first song they played was a version of "Train Kept A-Rollin."
“Cheap Thrills,” by Big Brother and the Holding Company, was released on Columbia Records in 1968. It tops the chart for seven weeks.
The supergroup Blind Faith made their U.S. live debut at Madison Square Garden in 1969.
In 1972, the Festival of Hope was the first rock festival to raise funds for an established charity. Acts include Jefferson Airplane, Stephan Stills, James Brown and others. Only half of the expected 400,000 show up the second day and while they raked in $300,000, the festival incurred expenses of $400,000.
The Commodores started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1978 with "Three Times A Lady," (also #1 in the UK) and becoming Motown's biggest British selling single.
As the Olympic Games came to a close in 1984, Lionel Richie performed, "All Night Long" live from Los Angeles to an estimated television audience of 2.6 billion people around the world.
The two day Moscow Music Peace Festival was held at The Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russia in 1989. Western acts who appeared included Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi, Skid Row and The Scorpions. This was the first time that an audience had been allowed to stand up and dance at a stadium rock concert in the Soviet Union.
"Woodstock '94" was held in Saugerties, New York in 1994. About 350,000 attended the show, which included mudfights and performances by Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Aerosmith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
MTV debuts the Fleetwood Mac reunion concert in 1997. The special was taken from two performances at a Warner Brothers soundstage a few months earlier.
In 2000, during an outdoor gig in Mancos, California as 38 Special were mid-set, the wind took hold of an overhead canopy and brought down ten tons of equipment onto the stage. The drum kit was completely crushed, but no one was seriously injured.
Alicia Keys went to #1 on the US singles chart in 2001 with "Fallin."
In 2003, eBay auctioneer Anthony DeFontes said he would sell Elvis Presley's tooth separately after the tooth combined with a lock of the King's hair and a gold record failed to attract a high enough bid.
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