Sunday March 14
Phil Phillips ("Sea Of Love") is 79
Michael Murphey ("Wildfire") is 65
Producer Quincy Jones (produced records by Michael Jackson and Lesley Gore, as well as "We Are The World") is 77
Rick Dees ("Disco Duck") is 60
Mary Ann Ganser of the Shangri-Las ("Leader Of The Pack") dies of a barbiturate overdose, 1970
Songwriter Doc Pomus ("Save The Last Dance For Me", "Suspicion", "Hushabye" and many others) dies of lung cancer in 1991
Eric Clapton is hospitalized in St. Paul, Minnesota with severe stomach ulcers, 1981
Peter MacBeth, one-time bass player with the Foundations, is sentenced in London to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a pre-teen girl, 2008
Gerry Marsden of Gerry & the Pacemakers is fined 60 pounds for evading British customs with a German-bought guitar, 1963
Quincy Jones celebrates his 47th birthday by getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1980
Stevie Wonder holds a press conference to announce that he'll move to Ghana within the next two years (it never happens), 1974
Mick Jagger sees Buddy Holly & the Crickets perform at the Granada Theatre in Woolwich, England, 1958
Fabian is voted Most Promising New Talent by the viewers of ABC-TV's "American Bandstand", 1959
Elvis Presley is interviewed by Jimmy Dean on Jimmy's Washington, DC television show, 1955
Petula Clark makes her American TV debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show" on CBS, 1965
The movie, "Rock Around The Clock" (with Bill Haley, the Platters and Freddie Bell & the Bellboys) premieres in Washington, DC, 1956
The first official gold record is awarded, to Perry Como for "Catch A Falling Star", 1958