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The Rock History Report for March 17th
1956 - Carl Perkins made his first television appearance on “Ozark Jubilee.”
1958 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets played the Gaumont, in Doncaster, UK
1976 - The Bob Dylan song “Hurricane” helped prompt a retrial for boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
1997 – The RIAA announced that the Eagles' Greatest Hits album had tied Michael Jackson's Thriller as the all-time best-selling album in the U.S.
1998 - Van Halen released their only album with former Extreme lead singer, Gary Cherone: Van Halen III.
2000 – In what would later become a legal nightmare, Paul McCartney began courting model Heather Mills. Around the same time, word got out that the ex-Beatle was worth around $865 million- a fact which would haunt him when the couple divorced in 2008.
2002 - Former Velvet Underground leader Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music was performed live for the first time by Berlin avant-garde classical ensemble Zeitkratzer, over a quarter-century after its release as a double album.
2003 - Dire Straits singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler was hospitalized after a London motorcycle accident.
2005 – Because Robert Plant was unable to attend the February Grammy ceremony in Los Angeles , he was presented with a lifetime achievement Grammy award at the South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival and conference in Austin, Texas. .
Birthdays:
1944 John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful
1944 Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane
1946 Harold Ray Brown of War
1951 Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy
1967 Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins
1972 Melissa Auf der Mar of Hole
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