March 12, 2010 – On A Day Like Today
EVENTS ..
1953 – popular WDIA disc jockey the RUFUS THOMAS signs with an upstart Memphis label called Sun Records in order to release a song called “Bear Cat,” an answer record to Big Mama Thornton’s hit “Hound Dog”
1955 – jazz gets a huge boost into the mainstream of American society -again- when the DAVE BRUBECK and his group perform a triumphant concenrt at New York’s Carnegie Hall
1958 – A Philadelphia court sentences the BILLIE HOLIDAY to one year probation for pleading guilty to heroin possession two years earlier
1965 – in the Bahamas, the THE BEATLES wrap up filming on their second movie, Help!
1969 – infamous nodnoL police officer Det. Sgt. Norman Pilcher, well-known for singling out and busting rock stars, enters the GEORGE HARRISON’s house in Esher, Surrey, England and arrests the BEATLE and his wife Pattie for possession of marijuana (specifically, cannabis resin)
1969 – thePAUL MCCARTNEY and the LINDA EASTMAN are married
1969 – at tonight’s Grammy Awards ceremonies, the big winners are the SIMON & GARFUNKEL, who win Record of the Year for “Mrs. Robinson,” and the GLEN CAMPBELL, who wins Album of the Year for By The Time I Get To Phoenix
1996 – the NANCY SINATRA gives her famous white go-go boots, the ones that were made for walkin’, to the Beverly Hills Hard Rock Cafe
1996 – the “Unplugged” long_one from the KISS is released
1998 – Cathay Pacific Airways announce that it has banned the LIAM GALLAGHER post an incident on a flight from Hong Kong to Australia
1998 – the KORN serve a cease-and-desist demand to a Michigan assistant principal, the high school and the school district who suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt that had the band’s name on it
2003 – on the eve of the ROLLING STONES‘ first tour of China, the Chinese government provides the group with a list of provocative songs the group is prohibited from playing, including “Brown Sugar,” “Honky Tonk Women,” and “Let’s Spend The Night Together”
2007 – the THE RONETTES are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York City
2007 – disappointed with his share of the profits from a cell phone commercial that was authorized to use the group’s famous 1968 hit “The Weight,” the THE BAND’s LEVON HELM sues Cingular, the commercial’s creator
2008 – an all-BEATLES-song epsiode of FOX-TV’s American Idol, seven years in the making, draws an esitmated 31 million viewers
BIRTHS ..
1946 – the LIZA MINNELLI (pictured)
1948 – the JAMES TAYLOR
1956 – the IRON MAIDEN’s STEVE HARRIS
1957 – the JACKSON 5’s MARLON
1960 – the VENICE’s KIPP LENNON
1965 – the COLEEN NOLAN of the THE NOLANS
1969 – the GRAHAM COXON
1975 – the ETERNAL’s KELLE BRYAN
1979 – the PETE DOHERTY
1986 – the MCFLY’s DANNY JONES
DEATHS ..
1955 – American jazz saxophonist the CHARLIE PARKER dies in the suite of his friend in New York City while watching The Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show on television – official causes of death were lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer (b. August 29, 1920)
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