| 1964: Barbra Streisand opened in the Broadway play "I Can Get it For You Wholesale." 1965: Bob Dylan's first album featuring his electric guitar "Bring it All Back Home" was released. 1967: The Who play their first U.S. show at the Paramount Theater in New York City. |
1971: Police arrested all members of the Allman Brothers Band for heroin and marijuana possession. 1973: Traffic and Spooky Tooth (Mick Jones, Gary Wright) appeared at The Hard Rock in Manchester, England. 1974: The Eagles release their third LP, On the Border. 1975: Led Zeppelin began a six-week stay at #1 on the album chart with Physical Graffiti. 1975: Barry Manilow makes his first appearance on American Bandstand. 1975: The Rolling Stones begin work on the LP Black and Blue in Munich. 1975: Olivia Newton-John is #2 on the album chart with Have You Never Been Mellow. |
1976: On the presidential campaign trail, Jimmy Carter tells the National Association of Record Merchandisers' Scholarship Foundation Dinner his musical inspiration as governor of Georgia was Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. 1977: John Denver's television special "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" was shown on ABC. |
| 1978: The Police signed a recording contract with A&M Records. 1979: Chaka Khan gives birth to a son, Damien Milton Patrick Holland. 1992: Polygram Records announced that Tears For Fears had split up. |
1994: Singer, songwriter and producer Dan Hartman died of a brain tumor in Westport, Connecticut. Hartman wrote "Free Ride" while he was with the Edgar Winter Group, had hits "Instant Replay" and "I Can Dream About You", and collaborated with Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Tyler, Paul Young, James Brown and Steve Winwood. 1997: Puff Daddy started a six-week run at #1 with "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down". 1999: Britney Spears' album "...Baby One More Time" was certified triple platinum. 2000: With Angus Young present, the Spanish town of Leganes unveil a sign designating a street "Calle de AC/DC" |
| 2001: "Butterfly" by Crazy Town was #1. 2003: Guns N' Roses gives the Offspring a cease and desist letter after they announce plans to call their new album Chinese Democrazy (You Snooze You Lose). Chinese Democracy was the long-awaited album from Guns N' Roses. 2005: Rod Price, founding member of Foghat, died after falling down a stairway at his home after suffering a heart attack. He was 57. 2006: The High School Musical Soundtrack returns to #1 on the album chart. 2006: Aerosmith cancels their North American tour as Steven Tyler enters the hospital for throat surgery. 2008: Mariah Carey reached #1 with "Touch My Body", her 18th #1 song. That tied Elvis Presley's record for the most #1 songs by a solo artist in the Rock Era. It was Carey's 79th week at #1, just short of Elvis's all-time record. |
Born This Day:
1930: Stephen Sondheim, writer of "Send in the Clowns"
1936: Roger Whittaker
1943: George Benson
1943: Keith Relf, vocalist with the Yardbirds
1944: Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy
1947: Harry Vanda (member of Easybeats and AC/DC producer)
1947: Patrick Olive (Hot Chocolate)
1948: Andrew Lloyd Webber, songwriter, producer with Tim Rice
1948: Randy Hobbs, bass guitarist with McCoys, Montrose and Johnny Winter Group
1957: Stephanie Mills
1963: Susanne Sulley, vocalist of the Human League
1979: Aaron Wright North, guitarist, Nine Inch Nails
1980: Shannon Bex, singer, Danity Kane1981: Shawn Mims, rapperSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-day-in-rock-history-march-22.html
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