Events in Music
People's Choice Awards
Mar 10 8th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Barbara Mandrell win (TV)
Music Single
Mar 26 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release the single "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 4 K. Michelle [Pate], American singer and actress (Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta), born in Memphis, Tennessee
- Mar 5 Amanda Shires; American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and fiddle player (The Nashville Sound; The Highwomen), born in Lubbock, Texas
- Mar 15 Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)
- Mar 20 Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects), born in Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Mar 22 Chris Wallace, American pop-rock singer-songwriter (The White Tie Affair - "You Look Better When I'm Drunk': solo - "Remember When (Push Rewind)"), born in Hebron, Indiana
- Mar 24 Nivea [Hamilton], American pop singer ("Laundromat"; "Don't Mess With My Man"), born in Savannah, Georgia
- Mar 25 Sergey Yakovlev, Russian musical artist and painter
- Mar 29 Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese record producer, born in Hachiōji, Japan
- Mar 31 Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
Deaths in Music
- Mar 5 John Belushi, American comedian (SNL, 1975-80), actor (Animal House), and singer (The Blues Brothers), dies of a drug overdose at 33
- Mar 7 Charles Borromeo Mills, American composer, dies at 68
- Mar 13 Albert Weisser, American musicologist and composer, dies at 64
- Mar 14 Kirill Molchanov, Russian-Soviet composer, dies at 59
- Mar 19 Randy Rhoads, American heavy metal guitarist (Quiet Riot), dies in an air crash at 25
- Mar 27 Bob Ysaguirre, American jazz double bass and tuba player (Don Redman Orchestra), dies at 85
- Mar 29 "Fatty" George [Pressler], Austrian swing jazz clarinettist, dies of a heart attack at 54
- Mar 29 Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana; Der Mond; Mozart Prize - 1969), dies of cancer at 86
- Mar 29 Floyd "Guitar" Smith, American jazz and blues guitarist and record producer, dies at 65
- Mar 29 Ray Block, French orchestra leader (Ed Sullivan; Jackie Gleason), dies at 79
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