March 14th

2006: The Cars announced they were reuniting as The New Cars with Todd Rundgren replacing Ric Ocasek & drummer Prairie Prince formerly of The Tubes replacing original Cars drummer Dave Robinson.

2003: Robert Trujillo performed his last concert as Ozzy Osbourne’s bassist in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel, as Trujillo had accepted the bassist vacancy in Metallica. Sharon Osbourne was rushed to a hospital during the concert due to heat exhaustion.

1991: Songwriter Doc Pomus, who wrote songs including This Magic Moment, Teenager in Love, & Viva Las Vegas died of lung cancer. He was 65 years old.

1986: Frank Zappa made a guest appearance on Miami Vice as drug dealer Mario Fuente.

1985: Iron Maiden began a four night sellout stand at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, CA. The concerts were recorded for the live album and video Live After Death which were released the following October.

1984: Rainbow performed their last concert for 11 years at Tokyo’s Budokan where they were accompanied by a Japanese symphony orchestra which included guitarist Ritchie Blackmore’s adaptation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Blackmore & bassist Roger Glover shortly re-joined Deep Purple for a reunion tour.

1981: Eric Clapton was admitted to United Hospital in St. Paul, MN after an attack of bleeding ulcers which caused Clapton to cancel a 60 city tour of the U.S.

Birthdays:
Quincy Jones born in 1933
Walter Parazaider-saxophonist for Chicago born in 1945
Jim Pons-bassist for The Turtles & The Mothers of Invention born in 1946