11 MARCH
In Music History
1957 Cheryl Lynn ("Got To Be Real") is born Lynda Cheryl Smith in Los Angeles, California.
1955 German punk rocker Nina Hagen is born in Berlin.
1951 Katie Kissoon (of the pop duo Mac & Katie Kissoon) is born Katherine Farthing in Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies.
1950 Jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, known for his #1 a cappella hit "Don't Worry Be Happy," is born in Manhattan.
1948 George Kooymans (vocalist, guitarist for Golden Earring) is born in The Hague, Netherlands.
1947 Vanilla Fudge lead singer Mark Stein is born in Bayonne, New Jersey.
1947 Keyboardist "Blue" Weaver (Mott The Hoople, The Strawbs) is born Derek John Weaver in Cardiff, Wales.
1944 Ric Rothwell (drummer for The Mindbenders) is born in Stockport, Cheshire, England.
1914 Art Todd is born in Baltimore, Maryland. Billed as Art and Dotty Todd, he forms a singing duo with wife Dotty in the '50s.
1905 Songwriter Michael Carr is born Maurice Alfred Cohen. His credits include the Shadows hit "Kon-Tiki."
Paul McCartney Is Knighted
1997Thirty years after being admitted as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to popular music.
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Featured Events
2018 American Idol, which ran for 15 seasons on Fox, returns on ABC just two years later with new judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan.
2006 The High School Musical soundtrack reaches #1 on the US albums chart, the first TV soundtrack album to top the tally since the Miami Vice soundtrack, which was #1 for eight weeks in 1985 and another three in 1986. Nine songs from the album make the Hot 100, led by "Breaking Free," sung by Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, which reaches #4.
2006 "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt goes to #1 in America. Blunt later explains that the song is "about a guy who's high as a f--king kite on drugs in the subway stalking someone else's girlfriend."
1972 Wings' "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" is listed at #23 in the Melody Maker chart. An article in the same issue reports it has been banned by the BBC as "unsuitable for broadcasting."
1972 Neil Young's album Harvest hits #1 in America, supplanting Don McLean's American Pie, which has been on top for seven weeks.
1903 Lawrence Welk, bandleader and host of the long-running Lawrence Welk Show, is born in Strasburg, North Dakota.
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