Calendar

1 MARCH
1927: Harry Belafonte
1944: Roger Daltrey, Mike D’Abo (Manfred Mann)
1957: Muddy Waters’ ‘Got My Mojo Working’ and Chuck Berry’s ‘School Days’ released by Chess Records
1966: Gene Clark announcing departure from The Byrds cites fear of flying.
1974: Chris Difford places ad in a shop window: ‘Lyricist seeks musician for co-writing.’ Glenn Tilbrook answers and later they form Squeeze.
1974: Blood On The Tracks No.1 on the US charts.
1995: Drummer Bill Berry of R.E.M. has brain aneurysm.

2 MARCH
1944: Lou Reed
1948: Rory Gallagher (d.June 14, 1995)
1950: Karen Carpenter
1960: Buddy Guy records ‘First Time I Met The Blues’ at Chess Studios in Chicago. The song is released as Chess single 1753.
1963: Graham Bond, keyboard/alto sax player, forms Graham Bond Organisation.
1983: The compact disc launched by Sony.
1991d: Serge Gainsbourg
1999d: Dusty Springfield,59, dies of cancer.
2003d: Hank Ballard, who wrote and originally recorded ‘The Twist’.

3 MARCH
1927 Junior Parker (died November 18, 1971).
1953: Robyn Hitchcock
1966: Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay form Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles.
1966: Rolling Stones enter RCA Hollywood Studios to record tracks for Aftermath.
1967: Debut of new Jeff Beck Group featuring Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Aynsley Dunbar.
2007: Wilco streams album Sky Blue Sky online and offers ‘What Light’ as free MP3 download. Album is not officially released for another two months.

4 MARCH
1932b: Miriam Makeba
1944: Mary Wilson (Supremes)
1944b: Bobby Womack
1948: Chris Squire (Yes)
1950: Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)
1966: John Lennon’s statement that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ appears in London’s Evening Standard.
1977: CBS releases The Clash’s self-titled debut album.
1986d: Richard Manuel, 42, (The Band) hangs himself.

5 MARCH
1929b: JB Lenoir
1948b: Eddy Grant
1955:Elvis Presley’s TV debut on ‘The Louisiana Hayride’.
1963d: Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash..
1982d: John Belushi,33, dies of drug OD.
2010: Womadelaide and Port Fairy Folk Festival start.

6 MARCH
1893 - 1981: Walter “Furry” Lewis
1905b: Bob Wills (‘King of Western Swing’).
1925b: John Leslie ‘Wes’ Montgomery
1937b: Doug Dillard (The Dillards)
1944b: David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

7 MARCH
1945: Arthur Lee (Love)
1946b: Peter ‘Wolf’ Blankfield (J Geils Band)
1952: Ernie Isley (Isley Brothers)
1966: Tina Turner records vocals for ‘River Deep, Mountain High’.
1987 Beastie Boys become first ever rap act to have a No.1 album in the US with Licensed To Ill.

8 MARCH
1933b: Lloyd Price
1944b: Keef Hartley (blues rock drummer)
1945: Mickey Dolenz (The Monkees)
1946: Randy Meisner (Eagles)
1962: Beatles make their radio debut on BBC singing Roy Orbison’s ‘Dream Baby.’
1973d: Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan, 26, founding member, keyboards, The Grateful Dead, dies.

9 MARCH
1945b: Robin Trower
1949: Jimmy Fadden (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1999: Wilco releases third album, Summerteeth.
2005: Damien Demspey’s Shots enters the Irish album charts at No.1

10 MARCH
1938b: Norman Blake (country guitarist)
1964b: Neneh Cherry
1973: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon released in US.
1989: Robert De Niro movie Jacknife, features appearance from Loudon Wainwright III, opens.
1997: Laverne Baker dies

11 MARCH
1940: Mike Hugg (Manfred Mann)
1945b: Harvey Mandel (guitar)
1986d: Sonny Terry, 74.

12 MARCH
1896 - 1976: Jesse “Lone Cat” Fuller
1917: Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess.
1942b: Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane)
1948b: James Taylor
1955d: Charlie Parker, 34, dies in New York.
1971: First of two nights recording The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East, NYC.

13 MARCH
1933b: Mike Stoller (songwriting partner of Jerry Leiber)
1939: Neil Sedaka
1960b: Adam Clayton (U2)
1956: RCA release first Elvis Presley album and EP.
1965: Eric Clapton leaves Yardbirds.
1966: Rod Stewart leaves Steampacket to go solo.
1973: Recording in New York of ‘Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels – Live’.
2001: John Hammond releases an acclaimed album of Tom Waits’ songs in Wicked Grin.

14 MARCH
1933b: Quincy Jones
1952: David Byrne
1991d: Doc Pomus, 65.
2005: Buddy Guy inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame by Eric Clapton and BB King. Clapton recalls seeing Buddy at London’s Marquee Club in 1965 – inspiring him to form Cream.

15 MARCH
1912-82: Sam ‘Lightnin’’ Hopkins
1932b: Arif Mardin (Atlantic Records)
1940b: Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)
1941b: Mike Love (Beach Boys)
1944b: Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart)
1947b: Ry Cooder
1969: Goodbye Cream enters UK LP charts at #1.
1975: Marc Bolan disbands T-Rex.
2004: John Butler Trio album Sunrise Over Sea debuts at No.1 on the Australian ARIA album chart.
2006: Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at MCG features The Church and The Cat Empire.

16 MARCH
1942b: Jerry Jeff Walker
1943b: Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu)
1951b: Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel)
1964: Patty Griffin
1970d: Tammie Terrell dies of brain tumour after onstage collapse into Marvin Gaye’s arms.
1975: T Bone Walker dies.
1981: Release of Paul Kelly’s Talk LP.

17 MARCH
1919: Nat ‘King’ Cole
1941: Clarence Clemmons (E Street Band)
1944b: John Sebastian (Lovin’ Spoonful)
1947b: Ian Gomm (ex-Brinsley Schwarz)
1951: Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy)
1990d: Ric Grech (bass, Blind Faith)
1950: WDIA Memphis becomes the first on-air black station in the US.
1962: Blues Incorporated performs for the first time at Ealing Club with Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies.
1967: Groundbreaking Stax tour, with Otis Redding and Sam & Dave, appears at Hammersmith Odeon.
2004: Ray Davies receives CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for ‘Services To Music.’

18 MARCH
1938b: Charlie Pride
1941b: Wilson Pickett (d. Jan 2006)
1969: Buddy Guy appears at the ‘Supershow’ at Staines TV Studios in UK. Plays on stage with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Roland Kirk, Buddy Miles and Stephen Stills.

19 MARCH
1930b: Ornette Coleman
1937b: Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry
1964b: Tracy Chapman
1957: Elvis Presley buys Graceland, Memphis, for US$102,500.
1976: Paul Kossof (Free) dies of heart failure on flight from LA to New York.
1982: Randy Rhoades, guitarist with Ozzy Osbourne, dies in plane crash.

20 MARCH
1937b: Jerry Reed
1951b: Jimmie Vaughan, Carl Palmer (ELP)
1957b: Ian Moss
1961: ‘Slim’ Jim Phantom (Stray Cats)
1969: John Lennon marries Yoko Ono
1971: The Yes album released in UK.
1977: T Rex play last ever gig in Portsmouth, UK.

21 MARCH
1902b: Eddie James ‘Son’ House
1930b: Otis Spann
1940b: Solomon Burke
1943b: Vivian Stanshall (Bonzo Dog Band)
1950: Roger Hodgson (Supertramp)
1951: Conrad Lozano (Los Lobos)
1991: Leo Fender dies.
2006: Prince’s album 3121 featuring Maceo Parker on sax is released.
2006: Black Crowes release their first ever live DVD, Freak 'n' Roll Into The Fog: The Black Crowes All Join Hands The Fillmore, San Francisco

22 MARCH
1943-76: Keith Relf (Yardbirds)
1947b: Harry Vanda (Easybeats, etc)
1993: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells record Last Time Around at Guy’s Legends club.

23 MARCH
1934: Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog.
1944: Ric Okasek (Cars)
1953b: Chaka Khan
1968: Damon Albarn
1972: Film of Concert For Bangladesh premieres in New York.

24 MARCH
1937: Billy Stewart (‘Summertime’)
1938: Holgar Czukay (Can)
1948b: Lee Oskar (harmonica, War)
1945: Billboard publishes first album chart. Nat King Cole is No.1.
1997d: Harold Melvin.
2007: John Butler Trio’s Grand National debuts on ARIA album chart at No.1

25 MARCH
1938: Hoyt Axton
1942: Aretha Franklin
1947: Elton John (Reginald Dwight)
1949: Nick Lowe
1966: Jeff Healey (died 2009)
1968: 58th and final episode of The Monkees broadcast in US.
1969: John and Yoko start their ‘bed in’ in Amsterdam.

26 MARCH
1917: Rufus Thomas
1923: Sarah Vaughan
1944: Diana Ross
1948: Steve Tyler (Aerosmith)
1950: Teddy Prendergrass (died 2010)
2006: Commonwealth Games closing ceremony at the Mcg features Grinspoon, Paul Kelly, Ben Lee, Sarah Blasko and John ‘He’s Our Bro’ So.

27 MARCH
1905: Leroy Carr (blues pianist) d: 1935
1935: Ramsey Lewis
1959: Andrew Farriss (INXS)
1965: Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds

28 MARCH
1941b: Charlie McCoy
1970: Janis Joplin (with Paul Butterfield) records One Night Stand in Hollywood.
1973: Led Zeppelin release Houses of the Holy.
1995: Wilco’s debut album, A.M., released.
2004: Xavier Rudd’s album Solace released and debuts in ARIA top 20.
2005: ‘Sly,’ the first single from The Cat Empire’s second album, Two Shoes, is released.

29 MARCH
1945: Speedy Keen (Thunderclap Newman)
1949b: Michael Brecker
1959: Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction)
1967: John Popper (Blues Traveler)
1967: Jimi Hendrix Experience record ‘Manic Depression’ in London.

30 MARCH
1914-48: Sonny Boy Williamson
1930: Rolf Harris (Jimi Hendrix of the wobble board).
1945: Eric Clapton
1979: Norah Jones
1956: Johnny Cash records ‘I Walk The Line.’

31 MARCH
1934b: John D Loudermilk (writer of ‘Tobacco Road’)
1935: Herb Alpert
1948b: Mick Ralphs (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1948: Thiis Van Leer (Focus)
1959b: Angus Young (AC/DC)
1958: Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B.Goode’ released.