12 MARCH
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2008 American Idol does an all-Beatles episode, somehow securing the rights to the songs after years of negotiations.
1988 Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" hits #1 in the US. The video, which shows a buttoned-up Astley singing his way around London, does well on VH1, but really takes off two decades later with the Rickrolling trend, as webmasters point links to the song's YouTube video to trick unsuspecting readers into watching it.
1974 John Lennon and Nilsson get drunk and disorderly at a Smothers Brothers comedy show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. They get thrown out, and Nilsson takes heat in the press for being a bad influence on Lennon. Said Nilsson: "It ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens."
1971 The Allman Brothers Band play the first of two shows recorded for their seminal album Live At The Fillmore East.More
1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman at the register office in Marylebone, London, and again at the Anglican church in St. John's Wood. None of his Beatles bandmates attend.
1966 The theme song to the TV series Batman reaches its chart peak of #17.
1964 For the first time in the history of the UK charts, there are no American acts in the Top 10, as British acts like The Rolling Stones take hold in their home country as well.More
12 MARCH
In Music History
2013 Clive Burr, who was Iron Maiden's drummer from 1979-1982, dies at age 56 after a battle with multiple sclerosis.
2012 Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack dies of cancer at age 65.
2011 At 78, Yoko Ono becomes the oldest performer to land a #1 Dance hit when "Move On Fast" tops the chart. Over the next few years she clocks several more #1 hits on that chart, setting a new record each time. The last is in 2017 with a new version of her song "Hell in Paradise," which tops the chart when she's 84.
2011 Joe Morello of The Dave Brubeck Quintet dies at age 82.
2007 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Patti Smith, R.E.M., The Ronettes and Van Halen are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in New York City.
2007 Matchbook Romance announce on MySpace that they are taking an "indefinite hiatus," which lasts until 2015.
2003 The Chinese government gives The Rolling Stones a list of songs they will not be allowed to play on their upcoming tour of the country. The list includes "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women" and "Let's Spend The Night Together."
2002 John "Speedy" Keene of Thunderclap Newman dies at age 56.
2001 "Freud's Dilemma," the first ever episode of The Chris Isaak Show, airs on Showtime. The new adult comedy stars Chris Isaak playing a wannabe rock star.
2001 Vince Gill and Amy Grant have their only child together, a girl named Corrina. Grant has three children from a previous marriage; Gill has one.
1999 Violinist Yehudi Menuhin dies at age 82 from complications of bronchitis.
1998 Attorneys for KoRn send a cease-and-desist demand to a Michigan assistant principal who suspended a student for wearing a Korn T-shirt to school.
1996 Nancy Sinatra gives her famous white go-go boots, the ones that were made for walkin', to the Beverly Hills Hard Rock Cafe.
1994 Christina Grimmie is born at Marlton, New Jersey.
1983 Run-DMC release their debut single, "It's Like That."
Ariana Grande Meets Pete Davidson On Saturday Night Live
2016Ariana Grande hosts Saturday Night Live, where she meets her future fiancé, cast member Pete Davidson. They don't go through with the wedding, but he gets a mention in her 2018 song "Thank U, Next."
Davidson appears with Grande in her opening monologue, where she dreams of having a grown-up scandal (not like licking a donut). "Want to smoke some pot or something?" he asks. "Pot? Let's smoke some crack, man," she replies. Also the musical guest, she debuts "Dangerous Woman" on the show. In May 2018, Grande and Davidson start dating, and just a few weeks later, they get engaged. A smitten Grande releases a song about him on her Sweetener album called "Pete Davidson." In October 2018, the bloom comes off this rose and the couple call off their engagement. Davidson jokes about it in an SNL promo where he asks Maggie Rogers if she wants to get married; Grande references the relationship in her song "Thank U, Next," where she mentions Davidson among some of her other exes, including Mac Miller and Big Sean.
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