Archive for March 8, 2008

1714 – Composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born.

1941 – Horace Heidt and his orchestra recorded “G’bye Now”.

1962 – The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain. The show was “Teenager’s Turn”.

1964 – The Dave Clark 5 made their first appearance on the “Ed Sullivan Show”.

1968 – The Fillmore East opened in New York City.

1970 – Diana Ross opened her first outing as a solo performer in Framingham, MA.

1973 – Paul McCartney plead guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside of his Scottish countryside farm. He claimed that a fan had given him the seeds and that he did not know what they would grow. He was fined $240.

1974 – Bad Company gave their debut performance in England.

1987 – Bob Seger ended a tour that he claimed would be his last. It was not his last tour however.

1993 – “Beavis and Butthead” premiered on MTV as a series.

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