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Post by SAT-I need more room!! on Mar 15, 2007 15:33:17 GMT -5
03/15/1940 Phil Lesh the bassist for the group the Grateful Dead, was born on this day.
03/15/1941 Mike Love, lead singer for The Beach Boys, was born on this day.
03/15/1944 Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) of the group Sly and the Family Stone was born on this day.
03/15/1946 Howard Scott of the group WAR was born on this day.
03/15/1954 Colonel Tom Parker became Elvis Presley's manager.
03/15/1957 Frankie Lymon and & The Teenages arrived in Britain for a tour.
03/15/1962 Dee Dee Sharp sings 'Mashed Potato Time' on American Bandstand.
03/15/1968 LIFE magazine called Jimi Hendrix 'the most spectacular guitarist in the world'.
03/15/1974 The Emerson, Lake and Palmer movie 'Pictures at an Exhibition' premiered in Los Angeles, CA.
03/15/1975 The Doobie Brothers song 'Black Water,' topped the charts and stayed there for a week.
03/15/1975 The decline of T. Rex's popularity was confirmed when 1975's Bolan's 'Zip Gun' failed to chart. Bolan took the rest of the year off, returning in the spring of 1976.
03/15/1978 The movie 'American Hot Wax' premiered.
03/15/1999 Relatives of Buddy Holly filed a suit against MCA Records for allegedly hoarding royalty payments, forging contracts and illegally producing albums without the consent of the family.
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Post by Dawn on Mar 16, 2007 11:17:25 GMT -5
Hard to believe the oldest Beach Boy is 66! Mike is still performing regularly, although from what I saw last year, his age is beginning to catch up with him. If only he hadn't interfered so much with Brian's vision for the band in the mid '60s... Jimi was amazing on guitar. His work definitely laid part of the foundation for many of the later rock guitarists to come. Black Water has always been a favorite of mine. I remember listening to it on the car radio back when it was current. I hadn't heard about that lawsuit between Buddy's family and MCA. I wonder what the outcome of it was?
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