Today in Rock - Mar 4

  • Happy Birthday Chris Squire of Yes (1948).
  • The very first Grammy Awards are held in NYC, but none of the winners are from the rock and roll genre (1959).
  • Jerry Lee Lewis' house is stormed by the IRS, where they took $170,000 worth of his automobiles to pay back the debt he owed.
  • Janis Joplin arrives in Rio de Janeiro and goes public about kicking her drug and alcohol addiction. This came after being fined $200 for using explicit language at one of her concerts in Miami, FL the previous November (1970).
  • Sonny and Cher welcome their daughter, Chastity (1969).
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