Events in Music
People's Choice Awards
Mar 7 5th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Olivia Newton-John win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore & Carol Burnett win (TV)
- Mar 10 Eubie Blake, a 92-year old ragtime piano player and composer, and Gregory Hines are musical guest on Saturday Night Live
Music History
Mar 16 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
- Mar 18 "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 performances
- Mar 23 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
- Mar 24 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
- Mar 28 Frank Lazarus & Dick Vosburgh's stage musical comedy "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in Ukraine" premieres at the Mayfair Theatre, London, England
- Mar 31 24th Eurovision Song Contest: Gali Atari and Milk and Honey for Israel wins singing "Hallelujah" in Jerusalem
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 4 Jon Fratelli [John Lawler], Scottish rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player (The Fratellis - Costello Music; Here We Stand), born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Mar 7 Lisa Batiashvili, Georgian-German concert violinist, born in Tblisi, Georgian SSR
- Mar 8 Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)
- Mar 8 Tom Chaplin, British rock singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (Keane), born in Hastings, East Sussex, England
- Mar 9 Chingy [Howard Bailey, Jr.], American rapper (Right Thurr), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Mar 11 Benji Madden, American rock guitarist (Good Charlotte), born in Waldorf, Maryland
- Mar 11 Joel Madden, American rock singer (Good Charlotte), born in Waldorf, Maryland
- Mar 12 Pete Doherty, British singer-songwriter (The Libertines), born in Hexham, Northumberland, England
- Mar 13 Spanky G [Michael Guthier], American musician (Bloodhound Gang), born in Souderton, Pennsylvania
- Mar 16 Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- Mar 18 Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5 - "This Love"; "Moves Like Jagger"), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 20 Molly Jenson, American singer-songwriter, born in San Diego, California
- Mar 22 Aaron North, American musician (Nine Inch Nails), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 26 Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist (Spiral), born in Hamamatsu, Japan
Norah Jones (43 years old)
Mar 30 American pop and jazz singer and pianist ("Come Away With Me"), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Mar 30 Simon Webbe, English pop singer (Blue), born in Manchester, England
- Mar 31 Amey Date, Indian playback singer
Deaths in Music
- Mar 5 Vicente Ascone, Italian composer, dies at 81
- Mar 7 Guiomar Novaes, Barzilain concert pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
- Mar 7 Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
- Mar 15 Leonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914-20), dies at 82
- Mar 25 Anton Heiller, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 55
- Mar 29 Ray Ventura, French jazz pianist and big band leader ("Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise"), dies at 69
