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| 1957: Elvis Presley appeared live at the Chicago International Theater. 1958: Eddie Cochran recorded "Summertime Blues". 1958: Buddy Holly began the first night of a 43-date tour at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater. The show produced by Alan Freed also featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Danny & the Juniors, Frankie Lymon, the Diamonds, the Chantels, Larry Williams, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Billy Ford, Ed Townsend, Jo-Ann Campbell and the Pastels. 1959: Frankie Avalon had a great song at #1 "Venus".  1961: Ahhh, the days when music was fun..."Blue Moon" by the Marcels was #1. 1964: Madame Tussauds in London unveiled the wax images of the Beatles, the first pop stars to be honored. |
| 1967: John Lennon recorded his lead vocal for "Good Morning, Good Morning" for the upcoming album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at Abbey Road studios in London and Paul McCartney added a lead guitar solo to the track. 1967: Van Morrison recorded "Brown Eyed Girl" in New York City. 1969: Joe Cocker played his first North American concert. 1969: Ringo Starr announced that the Beatles would make no more public appearances. 1970: Crosby, Stills and Nash released "Woodstock". 1970: Simon and Garfunkel had the #1 song in the UK with "Bridge Over Troubled Water". 1971: The Temptations scored one of their biggest hits with the #1 song "Just My Imagination". 1973: Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy. 1974: Queen appeared at Aberystwyth University in Wales. 1974: The Raspberries ("Go All the Way") split and Eric Carmen embarks on a solo career. 1976: Genesis began their first North American tour with Phil Collins on lead vocals in Buffalo, New York. 1977: Pink Floyd began the first of four sold-out shows at New Bingley Hall at the Staffordshire County Showground. 1981: Blondie had the world's first (and best) #1 rap song with "Rapture", which began a two-week run at the top. 1981: Elton John's cover of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" was released as a tribute to John Lennon following his death. 1984: The title track "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins from one of the all-time top soundtracks was #1 in the U.S. 1987: Mel and Kim at the #1 song in the UK with "Respectable". 1987: Arizona, the home for bad laws, is the backdrop for this item--the Doobie Brothers shifted a concert scheduled for Phoenix to Las Vegas instead to protest Arizona Governor Evan Mecham's decision to rescind Martin Luther King Day. (I'm not making this stuff up.) 1989: The Bangles hit #1 in the U.S. with "Eternal Flame". 1991: Conor Clapton, Eric's four-year-old son is buried in England with Phil Collins and George Harrison attending the funeral. Conor died after falling out of an apartment window in New York City. 1992: Over $100,000 worth of damage was caused to the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in California when Ozzy Osbourne foolishly invited the first two rows of the audience on stage. 1992: Pearl Jam appeared at the Cabaret Metro in Chicago with Smashing Pumpkins as the opening act. 1995: Singer Jimmy McShane of Baltimore ("Tarzan Boy") died of AIDS. 1996: Phil Collins announced he was leaving Genesis for a solo career. 1998: Kiss played the first of five sold-out shows at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. 1999: French artist Mr. Oizo had the #1 song in the UK with "Flat Beat". 2001: The artist formerly known as Puffy and Puff Daddy said on MTV that he wanted to be called P. Diddy. In August of 2005, he changed his mind again and said he wanted to be known as "Diddy". 2002: The National Museum of American History put Louis Armstrong's cornet on display. 2002: Glorida and Emilio Estefan obtained a permanent restraining order against Venezuelan actor-singer Juan Carlos Diaz. 2003: Avril Lavigne announced that she was covering Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" for a charity CD benefiting victims of the Iraq War. 2003: Officials in Manchester, England cancel an upcoming Bruce Springsteen concert after residents complain about noise levels. |
2005: Queen started their first tour without the late Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon in London. Paul Rodgers took over lead vocals.
2005: Tony Christie was #1 on both the UK singles and album charts with "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" and Definitive Collection.
2005: Rich Cronin, former vocalist with LFO ("Summer Girls") was diagnosed with leukemia.
2009: Kelly Clarkson began a two-week stay at #1 on the U.S. album chart with All I Ever Wanted.
Born This Day:
1942: Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones
1945: Chuck Portz, the Turtles
1948: John Evans, Jethro Tull
1948: Milan Milliams, keyboards, brass, guitar for the Commodores
1948: Bernadette Peters
1957: Cindy Wilson, B-52's
1969: Patric Monahan, Train
1969: Cheryl James (Salt of Salt-n-Pepa)
1969: James Atkin, EMF
1986: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga)Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-day-in-rock-music-history-march-28.html
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