March 30 Born –
George “Ted” Heath (1902) – British big band leader.
Frankie Laine (aka Francesco LoVecchio, 1913) – singer/songwriter.
Sonny Boy Williamson (aka John Williamson, 1914) – Blues harmonica
player/singer.
Rolf Harris (1930) – Australian singer/songwriter.
Graeme Edge (1941) – drummer for The Moody Blues.
John "Jay" Traynor (1943) – Jay and The Americans.
Ken Forssi (1943) – bassist for Love.
Al Goodman (1943) – The Moments.
Ronnie Rice (1944) – The New Colony Six.
Eric Clapton (1945) – The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith.
Jim "Dandy" Mangrum (1948) – Black Oak Arkansas.
Lene Lovich (aka Lili-Marlene Premilovich, 1949) – singer.
Dave Ball (1950) – guitarist for Procol Harum.
Randy VanWarmer (1955) – singer/songwriter.
MC Hammer (aka Stanley Burrell, 1962) – rapper.
Tracy Chapman (1964) – singer/songwriter.
Céline Dion (1968) – singer.
DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein, 1973) – re-mixer/producer, Crazy Town.
Norah Jones (aka Geethali Shankar, 1979) – singer/songwriter/pianist.
March 30 R.I.P. –
Paul A. Rothchild (1995) – lung cancer. Age 59. Producer for The
Doors.
Timi Yuro (2004) – cancer. Age 63. R&B/soul singer ("Hurt").
March 30 album releases –
Billy Preston – Club Meeting (1967)
Jeff Beck – Blow By Blow (1975) U.S.
Magazine – Secondhand Daylight (1979)
The Pretenders – Extended Play (1981) (EP)
Erasure – The Circus (1987)
Bryan Adams – Into The Fire (1987)
The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs (1987)
Onyx – Bacdafucup (1993) U.S.
Choking Victim – No Gods, No Managers (1999)
Aerosmith – Honkin' On Bobo (2004)
Los Lonely Boys – Los Lonely Boys (2004)
March 30 events –
1955 – Fats Domino records “Blue Monday” at Cosimo Studio in New
Orleans.
1957 – Buddy Knox’s “Party Doll” hits the top spot on the U.S. singles
chart, making Knox the first artist of the rock 'n' roll era to write
his own #1 hit.
1957 – Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper join the Grand Ole Opry.
1962 – Pravda, the official newspaper of the USSR, runs an article
warning Russians against falling victim to the decadent new Western
fad known as "The Twist."
1963 – Leslie Gore records "It's My Party" at A&R Studios in New York
City with Quincy Jones producing.
1964 – Simon and Garfunkel perform at Gerdes Folk City in Greenwich
Village.
1966 – 85 people are arrested for rioting at a Rolling Stones concert
in Paris.
1966 – Barbara Streisand's second television special, Color Me
Barbara, airs on CBS.
1967 – The Beatles go to Michael Cooper's London photo studio to shoot
the cover shots for their up-coming album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band.
1967 – Jimi Hendrix makes his second appearance on Top Of The Pops,
singing live over a pre-recorded backing track to "Purple Haze."
1972 – Filming begins on the documentary Elvis: On Tour at a mock
studio session at RCA Studios.
1976 – The Sex Pistols make their stage debut at the 100 Club in
London.
1978 – The Clash’s Paul Simonon and Nicky Headon are arrested in
Camden Town, London, after shooting down racing pigeons with air guns
from the roof of Chalk Farm Studios. Four police cars and a helicopter
are required to make the arrest.
1978 – Van Halen and Montrose open for Journey at the State Theater in
Minneapolis.
1982 – U2 appears at the Civic Center in San Francisco.
1984 – David Gilmour appears on the Tyne Tees television show The
Tube, broadcast live from Newcastle upon-Tyne.
1989 – Gladys Knight performs for the first time as a solo artist at
Bally's in Las Vegas.
1992 – R.E.M. begins recording their Automatic For The People album at
Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York.
1994 – Pink Floyd begins their North American Division Bell Tour at
Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida.
1999 – KISS cancels three concert dates in Russia due to anti-American
sentiment over the U.N. bombing of Yugoslavia.
2000 – Castle Music is sold to the Sanctuary Music Group for £40
million, which includes the rights to The Kinks’ entire back catalog.
2000 – Mick Jagger makes a visit to his childhood school, Dartford
Grammar, and opens the new Arts Centre that has been named after him.
2000 – Mungo Jerry singer Ray Dorset is ordered to pay a former
employee £620 in back wages after a tribunal hears he harassed her
after she left his company. Dorset’s defense was that he paid her
double pay by mistake for ten months.
2001 – Country singer LeAnn Rimes reaches an out of court settlement
with her father and her former manager in a lawsuit claiming the pair
stole $12 million from her.
2004 – Paul McCartney shocks diners and in-house band members when he
gets on stage to play "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" at a Lake Tahoe
area restaurant.
2005 – Neil Young successfully undergoes surgery for a brain aneurysm.
2007 – A man stalking Paul McCartney is arrested when he speeds
through the estate's security checkpoint and drives to within feet of
the front door of McCartney's mansion in Sussex.
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