Pick a Day

11 MARCH

In Music History

2019 Danny Kustow of the Tom Robinson Band dies at 63.

2019 Session drummer Hal Blaine, who played on hundreds of hit songs, dies at 90.

2017 Joni Sledge of Sister Sledge dies at age 60.

2016 Keith Emerson, the keyboard player and primary music composer in Emerson, Lake & Palmer, dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 71.

2015 Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson and his brother, Andrew, are both rushed to the hospital after a knife fight with each other. According to police, the injuries are not life-threatening.

2015 Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboardist for Three Dog Night) dies of cancer, metastatic melanoma, at age 67.

2011 A pregnant Jewel is involved in a car accident when a volunteer fire truck slams into her Cadillac in Stephenville, Texas. Thankfully, no one is seriously injured.

2009 The Dead Weather, fronted by Alison Mosshart with Jack White on drums, make their debut performance at the opening of White's Third Man Records location in Nashville.

2008 Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's newborn twins, Maximilian David and Emme Maribel, make their public debut in People. With a $6 million price tag, the exclusive photo is the most expensive celebrity picture ever taken at the time.

2008 Kid Rock returns to the Waffle House in Duluth, Georgia (where he was involved in a brawl the previous year), to hang out with Waffle House workers and customers as part of a charity meet-and-greet.

2004 Edmund Sylvers of The Sylvers dies of lung cancer at age 47.

2003 311 play their first "311 Day" concert at the State Palace Theatre in New Orleans, starting a tradition of playing special gatherings on March 11.

1995 Liz Phair marries film editor Jim Staskauskas. They divorce in 2001.

1994 The Supremes receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1991 Pearl Jam begin recording their debut album, Ten, at London Bridge Studios in Seattle.