March 1973 in Music History

Events in Music

Album Release

Mar 1 Harvest (UK) and Capitol Records (US) release Pink Floyd's 8th studio album "Dark Side of the Moon"; it stays on Billboard Top 200 Album charts for most of the next 14 years, selling over 50 million copies worldwide

Singer-Songwriter and Producer David Gilmour

Mar 3 Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer's musical "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater, NYC, after 31 performances
Mar 4 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America

Music History

Mar 8 Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis

Mar 13 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
Mar 18 "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances
Mar 22 Joffrey Ballet revives Diaghilev's "Parade" at The City Center, NYC

Music History

Mar 23 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in USA

Mar 25 27th Tony Awards: "That Championship Season" (play) and "A Little Night Music" (musical) win

Music History

Mar 27 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession

Birthdays in Music

Mar 1 Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ and producer (4 Strings)
Mar 7 Sébastien Izambard, French operatic pop singer (Il Divo), born in Paris, France
Mar 8 Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)
Mar 10 John LeCompt, American hard rock guitarist (Evanescence, 2002-07 - "Lithium"), born in Little Rock, Arkansas
Mar 13 David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed), born in Brooklyn, New York
Mar 16 Brant Bjork, American rock drummer (Kyuss) and guitarist (Stoner), born in Redlands, California
Mar 17 Caroline Corr, Irish Celtic folk rock singer, drummer, and bodhrán player (The Corrs - "What Can I Do"), born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
Mar 22 Beverley Knight, English singer and actress, born in Wolverhampton, England
Mar 23 Stefon Harris, American jazz vibraphonist (The Grand Unification Theory; The Classical Jazz Quartet), born in Albany, New York
Mar 25 Anders Fridén, Swedish singer ("In Flames"), born in Askim, Sweden
Mar 30 DJ AM [Adam Goldstein], American DJ and musician, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2009)

Deaths in Music

Mar 5 Michael Jeffery, British music manager (The Animials; Jimi Hendrix), dies in a mid-air plane collision over France at 39)
Mar 6 Paul Kletzki [Paweł Klecki], Polish-Swiss violinist, composer, and conductor, dies during orchestral rehearsal at 72
Mar 8 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American rock singer, harmonica player, and occasional keyboardist (Grateful Dead, 1965-72), dies of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage at 27
Mar 12 Esther Williamson Ballou, American organist, composer and educator, dies at 57
Mar 14 Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer, dies at 65
Mar 18 Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American baritone tenor (National Symphony), dies at 82
Mar 19 Brew Moore [Milton Aubrey Moore], American jazz saxophonist, dies from injuries sustained in fall down a flight of stairs at 48
Mar 21 Antoni Szałowski, Polish-French composer (The Resurrection of Lazarus; 2 Pieces for Ondes Martenot), dies of a heart attack at 65

Noël Coward (1899-1973)

Mar 26 English playwright (Hay Fever; Private Lives), director (In Which We Serve -1942 Academy Award), actor and singer, dies of heart failure at 73

Mar 26 Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, dies at 67
Mar 27 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 72
Mar 31 Kurt Thomas, German composer, dies at 68