MARCH 3
TODAY IN 1986 METALLICA RELEASE THEIR THIRD ALBUM ‘MASTER OF PUPPETS’. THIS WAS THE LAST ALBUM WITH BASSIST CLIFF BURTON WHO WAS KILLED WHEN THE GROUP’S TOUR BUS OVER-TURNED IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN WHILE TOURING TO PROMOTE THE ALBUM. THE TITLE TRACK BECOMES THEIR MOST-PLAYED LIVE SONG.
IN 1992 NIRVANA RELEASE THE SECOND SINGLE “COME AS YOU ARE” FROM THEIR BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM ‘NEVERMIND’
AND IN 2018 JOURNEY’S ‘GREATEST HITS’ BECAME JUST THE THIRD ALBUM TO SPEND 500 WEEKS ON THE BILLBOARD 200. IT JOINED BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS’ ‘LEGEND: THE BEST OF BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS’ AT 510 WEEKS AND THE ALL-TIME LEADER, PINK FLOYD’S ‘THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON’ AT 937 WEEKS