Celebrating 8 March
Birthdays
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1942 – Ralph Ellis, guitarist, Swinging Blue Jeans
1944 – Carole Bayer Sager, songwriter and lyricist
1945 – Micky Dolenz, drummer, The Monkees
1947 – Michael Allsup, guitarist, Three Dog Night
1948 – Little Peggie March, pop singer
1949 – Dave Lambert, guitarist, The Strawbs
1954 – Cheryl Baker, singer, Bucks Fizz
1958 – Gary Numan, singer, Tubeway Army
1960 – Richard Darbyshire, singer, Living In A Box
1962 – Steve Grantley, drummer, Stiff Little Fingers
1964 – Peter Gill, drummer, Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1968 – Shawn Mullins, singer/songwriter
1976 – Gaz Coombes, guitarist, Supergrass
1979 – Tom Chaplin, singer, Keane
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Died on this day
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1973 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Grateful Dead (born 1945)
1993 – Billy Eckstine, jazz singer, bandleader (born 1914)
1998 – Roger Christian, keyboardist, The Christians (born 1950)
2003 – Adam Faith, singer (born 1940)
2005 – Gordon Spaeth, saxophonist, The Fleshtones (born 1951)
2011 – Mike Starr, bassist, Alice in Chains (born 1966)
2012 – Jimmy Ellis, tenor singer, The Trammps (born 1937)
2016 – Sir George Martin, record producer (born 1926)
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And on this day in...
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1962 – The Beatles made their radio debut (on "Teenagers Turn" on the BBC Light Programme)
1965 – David Bowie made his TV debut (on BBC2's "Gadzooks! It's All Happening" with The Manish Boys, performing I Pity The Fool)
1968 – Cream played the first of two nights at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco - part of it ended up on the Wheels of Fire album
1969 – The Small Faces split up after Steve Marriott left for Humble Pie
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