1956: The #1 song in the land was Les Baxter's "Poor People of Paris"
1959: Bobby Rydell appeared on "American Bandstand"
1961: Ricky Nelson recorded "Hello Mary Lou"
1961: Elvis was on top with "Surrender"
1964: The Beatles perform on English TV's Ready Steady Go, which achieves its highest rating
1965: Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, Martha & the Vandellas and the Temptations tour the U.K. on the first package tour by Motown.
1968: Eric Clapton, Neil Yong, Richie Furay and Jim Messina are arrested in Los Angeles on charges of marijuana.
1969: John Lennon marries Yoko in Gibraltar, Spain.
1973: The O'Jay's urged us to hop aboard the "Love Train"
1977: T. Rex gives their final concert in Portsmouth, England.
1980: Pink Floyd enjoyed their only #1 hit "Another Brick in the Wall"
1982: Buckner & Garcia performed "Pac-Man Fever" on American Bandstand
1984: Slim Jim Phantom marries Britt Ekland on his birthday.
1986: Heart was enjoying a huge comeback with the #1 "These Dreams"
1990: Gloria Estefan is seriously injured after a tractor crashes into her tour bus in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
1991: Michael Jackson signs a $1 billion record/film deal with Sony Music and Columbia Pictures.
1991: Eric Clapton's 4 year-old son, Conor died after falling from a 53rd story New York City apartment window.
1996" Celine Dion was on top with "Because You Loved Me"
2003: the day America bombs Iraq, Bruce Springsteen opened his
show in Melbourne, Australia, with an acoustic version of "Born in the U.S.A." followed by a cover of Edwin Starr's "War".
Born This Day:
1937: Jerry Reed
1950: Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1951: Jimmie Vaughan (guitarist of the Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1961: Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats)
1964: Tracy Chapman
1976: Chester Bennington, Linkin Park
Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-day-in-rock-history-march-20.html
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