1958: Elvis Presley was sworn in as a private in the U.S. Army.
1959: The Drifters released "There Goes My Baby", featuring new lead singer Ben E. King.
1962: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform onstage as Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys.
1965: Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand. It was the first date of the Rolling Stones anniversary tour.
1966: The New York State Assembly passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to sell bootlegs.
1973: Lou Reed was bitten on his rear end by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, New York. The male fan was ejected from the show.
1973: Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of the Moon".
197: The British courts granted British record companies the rights to seize bootleg and pirate recordings.
1978: "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees was the song of the land.
1980: Iron Maiden released the album The Number of the Beast.
1991: The Black Crowes were dropped as the opening act on ZZ Top's tour for repeatedly criticizing Miller Beer. Miller Beer happened to be sponsoring the tour..
1992: A Chicago judge ruled in the Milli Vanilli class-action suit that $3.00 cash rebates would be given to anyone that could prove that they bought the group's music before November 27, 1990 (the date the lip synching scandal broke).
1998: Amway Corp. announced that it had agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit over the company's use of songs by top artists in videotaped sales pitches.
2002: Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach becomes the father of son Makaile Cielo Shaddix.
2003: David Lee Roth began a week as a substitute morning disc jockey on Arrow 93.1 in Los Angeles.
2003: Madonna had to re-edit her "American Life" clip when war broke out in Iraq. The video featured her lobbing grenades at a fashion show.
2004: Norah Jones' second album Feels Like Home topped the album charts for a fifth consecutive week.
2005: Anthrax announced the lineup that was in place for the album Among the Living would reform for a national tour.
Born This Day:
1949: Nick Lowe
1960: Nena
1970: Sharon Corr (Corrs)
1974: Chad Butler, drummer for Switchfoot
1982: NiveaSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-day-in-rock-history-march-24.html
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