Today In Rock History by Helen Bach

So far March has sorta sucked

Number 1’s?
nothing Ive ever heard

Births
Rick Ocasek (the Cars) 1944 (WHAT!?!?)

Chaka Khan 1953
Other:
1964 John Lennon’s In His Own Write published
1967 Jimi Hendrix hits UK chart with Purple Haze
1969 30,000 people attend ‘The Rally for Decency’ at the Orange Bowl in Miami in response to Jim Morrison’s ‘indecent’ pants-dropping incident three weeks earlier.
but the best trivia of all…
1980 A gunman holds up Elektra Records in New York demanding to speak to Eagles or Jackson Browne. He gives up and leaves when told they live in California
Scroll to Top