March 25 Born –
Dorothy Squires (aka Edna Squires, 1915) – Welsh singer ("A Tree In
The Meadow").
Vivian Carter (1921) – DJ, co-founder of Vee-Jay Records.
Bonnie Guitar (aka Bonnie Buckingham, 1923) – Country/pop singer
("Dark Moon").
Tom Wilson (1931) – early producer for Bob Dylan.
Paul Motian (1931) – Jazz drummer for Bill Evans.
Johnny Burnette (1934) – Rockabilly artist.
Hoyt Axton (1938) – singer/songwriter.
Anita Bryant (1940) – singer.
Aretha Franklin (1942) – R&B/soul singer, “The Queen of Soul.”
Duncan Browne (1947) – British singer/songwriter.
Jack Hall (1947) – bassist for Wet Willie and The Charlie Daniels
Band.
Elton John (aka Reginald Dwight, 1947) – singer/songwriter/pianist.
Michael Stanley (1948) – The Michael Stanley Band.
Neil Jones (1949) – guitarist for Amen Corner.
Maizie Williams (1951) – Boney M.
Steve Norman (1960) – multi-instrumentalist for Spandau Ballet.
Jeff Healey (aka Norman Healey, 1966) – Canadian blues guitarist.
Cathy Dennis (1969) – British singer/songwriter.
Finley Quaye (1974) – Scottish singer/musician.March 25 R.I.P. – Joe Schermie (2002) – heart attack. Age 56. Bassist for Three Dog Night. Buck Owens (2006) – heart attack. Age 76. Country music star. Dan Seals (2009) – mantle cell lymphoma. Age 61. England Dan and John Ford Coley. March 25 album releases – The Beach Boys – Surfin' U.S.A. (1963) Billy Preston – Wildest Organ In Town! (1966) (mono) Diana Ross and The Supremes – Reflections (1968) Jimi Hendrix – Band Of Gypsys (1970) U.S. John Cale – Vintage Violence (1970) The Kinks – The Kink Kronikles (1972) Earth, Wind & Fire – Open Our Eyes (1974) John Cale – Slow Dazzle (1975) Triumph – Progressions Of Power (1980) Wings – Wings At The Speed Of Sound (1976) U.S. The Church – The Blurred Crusade (1982) Shakira – Peligro (1993) Powerman 5000 – True Force (1994) Sleater-Kinney – Call The Doctor (1996) Matthew Sweet – Blue Sky On Mars (1997) Dinosaur Jr. – Hand It Over (1997) The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death (1997) The B-52s – Funplex (2008) The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely (2008) March 25 events – 1958 – Buddy Holly plays the final date of his only UK tour at the Gaumont Theatre in Hammersmith. 1958 – Elvis Presley reports to Fort Chaffee in Arkansas for his Army haircut and basic training. 1959 – Lloyd Price, backed by the Ray Charles Singers, records "Personality" and “Have You Ever Had The Blues” at Bell Sound in New York City. 1960 – Ray Charles records “Georgia On My Mind” at Capitol in Hollywood. 1960 – Roy Orbison records “Only The Lonely.” 1961 – Elvis Presley performs a benefit concert at Pearl Harbor's Bloch Arena to help raise money for the U.S.S. Arizona war memorial. The concert will be his last for seven years. 1963 – Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three, along with the Carter Family on backing vocals, records “Ring Of Fire” and “I’d Still Be There” at RCA Studios in Nashville. 1964 – The film Muscle Beach Party, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, and featuring Dick Dale, Donna Loren and Little Stevie Wonder, opens in theaters. 1964 – Top Of The Pops airs The Beatles' first appearance on the show (filmed on March 19). 1964 – Chuck Berry records "No Particular Place To Go" in Chicago. 1965 – On the recommendation of session guitarist Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck joins The Yardbirds, filling Eric Clapton's spot following his departure on March 13. 1965 – Bobby Vee, Dusty Springfield, The Searchers, Heinz, and The Zombies all appear at the Odeon Cinema in Stockton, Cleveland, on a UK package tour. 1966 – Bob Dylan appears at the Seattle Center Arena in Washington. 1966 – The Beatles pose for the infamous "butcher" photos at Robert Whitaker's Chelsea studio. 1966 – Buck Owens and His Buckaroos perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. 1967 – The Turtles’ “Happy Together” hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it will stay for three weeks. 1967 – Pink Floyd plays three shows in less than 24 hours, with an early evening show at the Ricky Tick Club in Windsor, a late evening gig at the New Yorker Discotheque in Swindon, and finally at the Shoreline Club in Bognor Regis (in the early hours March 26). 1967 – Cream makes their U.S. concert debut at the RKO 58th Street Theatre in New York City as part of a rock & roll extravaganza promoted by DJ Murray the K. Also on the bill are The Who, Wilson Pickett, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels and The Blues Project. 1968 – The 58th and final episode of The Monkees TV series, “The Frodis Caper,” airs on NBC. 1969 – Roy Orbison (32) marries his second wife Barbara Jakobs (19). They will stay married until Roy's death in 1988. 1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin the first full day of their honeymoon Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton. 1970 – Jackie DeShannon, Waylon Jennings and Michael Parks appear on The Johnny Cash Show. 1971 – New York's WNBC radio station is the first to ban Brewer and Shipley's "One Toke Over The Line" for its alleged marijuana connotations. 1972 – America’s “Horse With No Name” hits #1 on the Hot 100. 1973 – Slade plays two shows at the Wembley Empire Pool, with opening act Home. 1975 – Aerosmith begins their Toys In The Attic Tour at the War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1976 – Jackson Bowne's wife, Phyllis Major, commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. 1977 – Elvis Costello releases his debut single, “Less Than Zero” b/w “Radio Sweetheart.” 1983 – Michael Jackson debuts his "moonwalk" when Motown celebrates their 25th anniversary with a star-studded concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The show will be broadcast on May 16 on NBC. 1985 – Stevie Wonder wins an Academy Award for his song "I Just Called To Say I Love You" from the film, Lady In Red. 1986 – Guns ‘N Roses signs with Geffen Records. 1989 – The recording studio at Chuck Berry's Wentzville, Missouri ranch is destroyed by fire. Lost in the fire are thirteen unreleased Berry tunes. 1990 – Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee moons the audience at a concert in Augusta, Georgia, and is arrested for indecent exposure. 1995 – Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder is rescued from drowning after a rip tide carries him 250 feet off shore while swimming in the ocean in Auckland, New Zealand. 2000 – Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir is sentenced by a court in Edinburgh to 300 hours of community service after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. 2001 – Bob Dylan wins an Academy Award for his song "Things Have Changed" from the film, Wonder Boys. 2002 – The seven-year search for Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards seems to take a grisly turn when human feet are found by two fishermen near where he vanished in 1995. The feet don’t belong to Richey. 2002 – Bono appears in court to testify on behalf of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who is charged with an in-flight air rage rampage incident. 2003 – Liv Rundgren Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven and Playboy model Bebe Buell, marries Spacehog bassist/singer/songwriter Royston Langdon in Barbados. The marriage lasts three years. 2005 – Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are awoken by a fire alarm in their Buckingham mansion, and escape their burning home, rescuing their pets along the way. 2008 – Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora is arrested for drunk driving in Laguna Beach. 2010 – Justin Bieber's manager, Scott Braun, is arrested for reckless endangerment after a riot takes place at a mall where Bieber is set to appear. Due to security reasons, Bieber does not show up, and Braun fails to inform the crowd via Twitter, opting instead to let the melee take place. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
