March 19
THE MOVIE VERSION OF THE WHO’S ROCK OPERA ‘TOMMY’ PREMIERES IN AMERICA TODAY IN 1975. THE FILM FEATURED A STAR-STUDDED ENSEMBLE CAST, INCLUDING THE BAND MEMBERS THEMSELVES, ANN-MARGRET, OLIVER REED, ERIC CLAPTON, TINA TURNER, ELTON JOHN, AND JACK NICHOLSON.
TODAY IN 1976 THE DOOBIE BROTHERS RELEASE THEIR SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS’, WHICH CONTAINS THE TITLE TRACK AND “IT KEEPS YOU RUNNIN'”. IT WAS THE FIRST TO FEATURE MICHAEL MCDONALD ON LEAD VOCALS.
SADLY, TODAY IN 1982 OZZY OSBOURNE’S GUITARIST, 25-YEAR-OLD RANDY RHOADS, WAS KILLED WHEN THE SMALL PLANE HE WAS RIDING IN CRASHED. RANDY WAS THE CO-FOUNDER AND ORIGINAL GUITARIST FOR ‘QUIET RIOT’ BEFORE BECOMING OZZY’S GUITARIST FOR HIS FIRST TWO SOLO ALBUMS AND PLAYED ON THE CLASSIC TRACK “CRAZY TRAIN”
