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Rock 'n' Roll Almanac for Saturday, March 30, 2024

82 years ago (1942)Graeme Edge, drummer with the Moody Blues, is born.
79 years ago (1945)Eric Clapton, guitarist and vocalist with Cream, Derek & the Dominoes, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, and the Yardbirds, is born.
64 years ago (1960)Representative Thomas O'Neill (of Massachusetts) wants the Federal Communications Commission to investigate all radio station employees involved in payola and report them to Congress.
61 years ago (1963)M. C. Hammer is born.
60 years ago (1964)Singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman is born.
58 years ago (1966)At the Rolling Stones' concert at the Olympia in Paris, 85 audience members are arrested after the crowd's heated reaction to the Stones gets out of hand.
56 years ago (1968)The Yardbirds perform and record what will become Live Yardbirds at the Anderson Theater.
48 years ago (1976)The British punk group the Sex Pistols play their first show at London's 100 club, attracting only a reported 50 people to the venue where they would begin a weekly residency in June.
47 years ago (1977)The Eagles' Hotel California sits atop the Billboard LP Chart.
46 years ago (1978)Paul Simonon and Topper Headon of the Clash are arrested in London for shooting pigeons from the roof of a rehearsal hall.
44 years ago (1980)Genesis' England By The Pound is released.
35 years ago (1989)Gladys Knight performs solo for the first time since grammar school without The Pips during a gig at Bally's in Las Vegas.
19 years ago (2005)New Orleans rapper Master P pleads innocent in Los Angeles to a felony charge of carrying unregistered loaded guns after his arrest two months previously while riding in a car driven by his brother Vyshonn King Miller, a 20-year-old singer known as “Silkk the Shocker.” Meanwhile, a third brother, Corey Miller, a.k.a. C-Murder, is appealing a 2003 second degree murder conviction and mandatory life sentence for shooting a 16-year-old boy at a New Orleans area nightclub.
17 years ago (2007)Entertainment Tonight reports Marie Osmond and husband Brian Blosil are getting divorced. The couple says, "Though our marriage is ending, we continue to have a very amicable relationship." Osmond and Blosil married in October 1986 and have eight children. They were briefly separated in 2000 after Osmond suffered a bout of post-partum depression. She later wrote a book about her experience, Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression.

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