March 20th

1994: Rush were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the Juno Awards of 1994 at the O’Keefe Centre in Toronto.

1991: Eric Clapton’s four year old son Conor climbed out of an open window & fell 700 feet to his death in New York City. Clapton’s grief was expressed in the song Tears in Heaven.

1984: The Stray Cats’ drummer Slim Jim Phantom married actress Britt Ekland. They would divorce in 1992.

1982: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ cover of I Love Rock ‘n Roll reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the first of seven consecutive weeks.

1980: Truck driver Joseph Riviera held up the New York offices of Asylum Records demanding to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles. Riviera wanted to see if either of them would finance his own trucking operation & he surrendered to New York police after being told neither of them were in the office.

1976: Alice Cooper married the choreographer of his Welcome to My Nightmare tour, Cheryl Goodard in Acapulco, Mexico. They’re still married to this day.

1969: John Lennon married Yoko Ono at the British Consulate Office in Gibraltar, Spain.

1968: Eric Clapton & Neil Young, Richie Furay & Jim Messina of Buffalo Springfield were arrested in Los Angeles for being in a place where it is suspected marijuana is being used. Clapton was found innocent but the members of Buffalo Springfield each paid a small fine.

Birthdays:
Carl Palmer-drummer for Emerson, Lake & Palmer & Asia born in 1950
Jimmie Vaughan-guitarist for The Fabulous Thunderbirds born in 1951
Slim Jim Phantom-drummer for The Stray Cats born in 1961