March 1976 in Music History

Events in Music

Academy of Country Music Awards

Mar 1 11th Academy of Country Music Awards: Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn win

Mar 2 Musical revue featuring song from the Harlem Renaissance "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater, NYC; runs for 766 performances
Mar 6 Revival of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1924 stage drama "They Knew What They Wanted", closes at the Playhouse Theatre, NYC, after 23 performances
Mar 25 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances
Mar 25 "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
Mar 26 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album

Birthdays in Music

Mar 4 Stza Crack [Scott Sturgeon], American punk rock musician (Choking Victim; Leftover Crack), born in New York
Mar 8 (Gareth) "Gaz" Coombes, British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (Supergrass - "Alright"), born in Oxford, England
Mar 10 Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese-Egyptian actress, model, pop and world music singer, born in Mahrouna, Lebanon
Mar 10 Kisaki, Japanese progressive rock musician (Phantasmagoria)
Mar 12 Simon Young, English music journalist
Mar 13 James Dewees, American musician (The Get Up Kids), born in Liberty, Missouri
Mar 16 Blu Cantrell [Tiffany Cobb], American singer-songwriter (Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!), Breathe), born in Providence, Rhode Island
Mar 17 Stephen Gately, Irish pop singer (Boyzone - "A Different Beat"; "No Matter What"), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2009)
Mar 19 Zach Lind, American drummer (Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle")
Mar 20 Chester Bennington, American singer and songwriter (Linkin Park), born in Phoenix, Arizona (d. 2017)
Mar 25 Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
Mar 25 Gigi Leung, Hong Kong actress and singer (Tempting Heart), born in Hong Kong
Mar 25 Juvenile [Terius Gray], American rapper (The Hot Boys), born in Magnolia, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mar 27 Tia Fuller, American jazz saxophonist (Soul (film); Beyoncé backing band), composer, and educator (Berklee School), born in Aurora, Colorado
Mar 28 David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers), born in Pella, Iowa
Mar 30 Mark McClelland, Northern Irish rock bassist and songwriter (Degrassi; Snow Patrol), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Weddings in Music

Alice Cooper

Mar 20 American rocker Alice Cooper (28) weds choreographer Sheryl Goddard in Acapulco, Mexico

Deaths in Music

Mar 1 Jean Martinon, French conductor & composer, dies at 66
Mar 3 Alfred Sendrey [Szendrei], Hungarian-American organist, conductor, musicologist, and composer, dies at 92
Mar 7 Erwin Kroll, German composer, dies at 90
Mar 11 Louis Gesensway, Latvian-American violinist (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1926-71), and composer (Ode To Peace), dies at 70
Mar 18 Robert de Roos, Dutch composer, dies at 69
Mar 19 George Sklavos, Greek composer, dies at 87
Mar 19 Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free - "All Right Now"), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 25
Mar 30 Reuben "Rube" Bloom, American pianist, arranger, band leader (The Bayou Boys), songwriter ("Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)"; "Give Me the Simple Life"), dies at 73