Week in Rock History

Week in Music History: March 6-12

By Myspace Music • 11 hours ago

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While you’re busy checking out all the new music that dropped today, it never hurts to take a peek back at what happened this week in year’s past. Say, for instance, did you know that this week in 1986, Whitney Houston (pictured above)’s eponymous debut album was released? Or that this week in 1997, rap legend The Notorious B.I.G. was murdered in Los Angeles? Take a trip back in time and revisit all (good and bad) that’s happened in music during this week.
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Flashback: This Week’s Top 5 Singles in 2001
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1. Joe featuring Mystikal- “Stuter”
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2. Shaggy feat Ricardo RikRok Ducent- “It Wasn’t Me”
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3. Jennifer Lopez- “Love Don’t Cost A Thing”
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4. Lenny Kravitz- “Again”
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5. Shaggy feat Rayvon- “Angel”
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This Week in Music History: March 6- 12
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March 6, 1944- Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is born.
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March 12, 1948- Hall of Fame singer/songwriter James Taylor is born.
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March 6, 1965- The Temptations go to No.1 on the US singles chart with the Smokey Robinson-penned song ‘My Girl’, making the group the first male act to have a No.1 for Motown.
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March 8, 1966- Bob Dylan records ‘Just Like A Woman’ for his Blonde On Blondealbum at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.
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March 7, 1970- Simon and Garfunkel’s album Bridge Over Troubled Water started a ten week run at No.1 on the US chart. The duo had split-up by the time of release.
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March 9, 1970- Having recently changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath,Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward make their concert debut at The Roundhouse, London.
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March 10, 1971- Producer Timbaland is born.
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March 10, 1973- The Pink Floyd album Dark Side Of The Moon is released in America; it spends over 740 weeks on the charts over a 14-year period.
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March 11, 1979- Brothers Joel Madden and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte are born.
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March 12, 1979- The Libertines‘ vocalist/guitarist Pete Doherty is born.
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March 9, 1980- Rapper Chingy is born.
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March 8, 1986- Whitney Houston goes to No.1 on the US album chart with her self-titled debut album. It spends a total of 14 weeks at the No.1 position.
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March 7, 1987- The Beastie Boys become the first rap act to have a No.1 album in the US with their debut album, Licensed To Ill.
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March 9, 1987- Rapper Bow Wow is born.
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March 11, 1989- Debbie Gibson starts a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Electric Youth.
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March 12, 1995- Boyz II Men are at No.1 on the US album chart with II.
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March 9, 1997- Rapper The Notorious BIG is gunned down and killed as he leaves a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
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March 11, 2008- Madonna is inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a star-studded ceremony in New York City.
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March 6, 2010- Mark Linkous, frontman with US band Sparklehorse commits suicide by shooting himself in the heart outside a friend’s house in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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March 9, 2010- Lil Wayne is sentenced to a year in prison at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex after pleading guilty to gun possession.