This Date In Music History-March 8

Birthdays:

Ralph Ellis - Swinging Blue Jeans (1942)

Andrew Semple - Fortunes(1943)

Keef Hartley - Keef Hartley Band (1944)

Michael Dolenz - Monkees (1945)

Carole Bayer Sager - singer/songwriter. Wrote "Groovy Kind Of Love," hit for The Mindbenders (1946)

Randy Meisner - Poco / Eagles (1946)

Mike Allsup - Three Dog Night (1947)

"Little" Peggy March (1948)

Dave Lambert - Strawbs (1949)

Clive Burr - Iron Maiden (1957)

Gary Numan - Tubeway Army (1958)

Jimmy Dormire - Confederate Railroad (1960)

Cheryl "Salt" James - Salt-N-Pepa (1964)

Peter Gill - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1964)

Shawn Mullins (1968)

Gareth Coombes - Supergrass (1976)

Tom Chaplin - Keane (1979)

Andy Ross - OK Go (1979)

Bob Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)

Clint Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)

David Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)

Eleanor Jackson - La Roux (1988)


They Are Missed:

Ron Mckernan, keyboard player with The Grateful Dead, died in 1973 (age 27) from liver failure brought on by alcohol poisoning.

Born today in 1948, Mel Galley, guitar, Whitesnake. Died of cancer on July 1, 2008.


History:

In 1961, the Beatles played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool at lunchtime. That night they performed twice: at Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool, and at Hambleton Hall, Huyton, Liverpool.

The Beatles make their British national radio debut in 1962, singing "Dream Baby", "Maybelline" and "Please Mr. Postman" on the BBC's "Teenagers' Turn" program.

In 1964, the Dave Clark Five make the first of 18 appearances on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show."



David Bowie made his TV debut in 1965 with The Manish Boys on a UK program called 'Gadzooks! It's All Happening' when they performed their current single 'I Pity The Fool.'

Bob Dylan recorded "Just Like A Woman" for his Blonde On Blonde album at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in 1966.

Albert King, Janis Joplin and Tim Buckley appeared at the opening of New York's Filmore East, New York in 1968.

“Proud Mary” was Creedence Clearwater Revival’s first million selling single (1969).

The Small Faces split up in 1969 after singer Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band. Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones linked up with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and formed The Faces.

Lulu became the first British female singer to appear behind the Iron curtain, when she toured Poland with The Hollies in 1966.

Diana Ross made her first performance as a solo act when she appeared in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1970.

In 1973, Paul McCartney was fined £100 ($170) for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. McCartney claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn’t know what they would grow. Umm, OK Sir Paul....

Bad Company kicked off their first UK tour at Newcastle City Hall in 1974. The band was made up by ex members from Free, (Paul Rodgers & Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople, (Mick Ralphs), and King Crimson, (Boz Burrell).

Olivia Newton-John went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1975 with "Have You Ever Been Mellow," the singers second US #1.

Whitney Houston went to #1 on the US album chart in 1986 with her self-titled album. It spent a total of 14 weeks at the #1 position.

In 1990, Cher won the worst dressed female, and worst video for 'If I Could Turn Back Time', in The Rolling Stone Magazine's awards, Donny Osmond won the most unwelcome comeback award.

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

The Wallflowers’ dramatic “One Headlight” topped the Modern Rock chart in 1997.



In 2005, a 9-year-old boy wakes from a coma after hearing Green Day’s "American Idiot." Wales resident Corey George, a Green Day fan, was hit by a car and unconscious for two weeks when his parents played him the disc. "Within an hour he had opened his eyes," says Corey’s father.

Pearl Jam’s "World Wide Suicide," hits #3 on Billboard Radio Monitor's Modern Rock chart in 2006 becoming the group’s highest debut (to date) single. Nine Inch Nail’s "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" and Fall Out Boy’s "Dance, Dance" are #1 and 2 respectively. A week later, Pearl Jam tops the chart.

In 2008, China was set to impose stricter rules on foreign pop stars after Bjork caused controversy by shouting "Tibet, Tibet" at a Shanghai concert after a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk of Tibetan independence was considered taboo in China, which had ruled the territory since 1951. A spokesperson from the culture ministry said Bjork would be banned from performing in China if there was a repeat performance.

In 2009, late Who drummer Keith Moon was honored with a special plaque at the site of London's Marquee Club, where the group cut its teeth. Surviving Who members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend attend the marker's unveiling, which is sponsored by the U.K.’s Heritage Foundation. "Keith Moon . . . deserves many plaques," Daltrey tells the crowd.