3 March 1960
The last King of Scotland… Elvis sets foot, briefly, on Scottish soil when his military plane stops off at Prestwick Airport on the way back from Germany. 
Two days later, he is discharged from the army. Perhaps The King saw some of the roughians in Glasgow and realised the US Army couldn’t match up. Years later, Tommy Steele revealed that he took Elvis on a secret sightseeing trip of London in 1958 – but it was all kept hush-hush as Elvis didn’t want to be mobbed. The Elvis estate deny this meet-up ever happened.
8 March 1973
Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan of the Grateful Dead dies of gastrointestinal haemorrhaging; he’d had serious liver problems for a couple of years. He is buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alton, California with the inscription: “Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead.”
12 March 1969
One of rock’s most enduring love affairs is rubber stamped when Paul McCartney marries Linda at the Registry Office in Marylebone. There’s a delay because Macca’s best man, his brother Mike, is late because he’s been playing a gig up in Birmingham. Linda Eastman had met Paul two years previously when she photographed The Beatles at Brian Epstein’s house. Her rise to prominence was heartbreak for millions of teenage girls, but later turned out to be good news for farm animals.
18 March 1965
Riding high in the UK charts with The Last Time at number one, the Rolling Stones are fined the princely sum of five pounds – each, mind you – for having a wee-wee on the forecourt of an Essex petrol station. A few more years of touring, they might be back to their old ways… involuntarily.
24 March 1973
A crazy fan takes to the stage during a Lou Reed gig in Buffalo, New York… and bites him on the bottom.
25 March 1965
Two exciting young folk music talents hit the charts in the UK for the first time… Donovan with Catch The Wind and Bob Dylan with The Times They Are A Changing. Check out this clip from Don’t Look Back, where Donovan plays his pleasant To Sing For You and Bob responds with It’s All Over Now Baby Blue. Donovan’s face suggests a man who has got his son a toy truck for Christmas, only to see the child’s new stepdad has bought him a fully working miniature Mercedes.
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