March 3, 2015 – Motor City Radio Flashbacks

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: MARCH 3

1957: Chicago’s Cardinal Strich bans Rock and Roll from all area Catholic schools.

1960: Along with 79 soldiers, a newly-discharged Elvis Presley arrives at Fort Dix, New Jersey by plane. A press conference is held, then a party, attended by manager “Colonel” Tom Parker, and Nancy Sinatra, whom Elvis had met while at a USO show.

**The Buffalo Springfield in 1967.** *(Click on image for larger view)*

1966: The band The Herd is formed in Los Angeles, featuring unknowns Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay (later of Poco), Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin. The band would later be renamed Buffalo Springfield and play a huge role in birthing the folk-rock movement.

1967: The Jeff Beck Group makes its debut on a London stage, featuring unknowns Ron Wood, Aynsley Dunbar, and singer Rod Stewart.

1973: At this year’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the George Harrison benefit disc The Concert For Bangladesh is awarded Album Of The Year. Roberta Flack wins Song and Record Of The Year honors for “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” Harry Nilson wins Best Pop Vocal for “Without You.” Helen Reddy wins three awards for her hit, “I Am Woman,” causing a small controversy when she accepts by thanking God: “She makes everything possible.”

1977: After some prodding by his father, Vernon, Elvis Presley signs his will, leaving control of everything to his father, then heads off for a vacation in Hawaii.

Mick Jagger's hired 'security guards' at the Altamont Speedway Concert in 1969 — **Mick Jagger’s hired security personnel “by choice” (Hell’s Angels) at the Altamont Speedway Concert in 1969.** *(Click on image for larger view)*

1983: A Hell’s Angel biker only identified as “Butch” confirms, in front of a US Senate hearing, that the motorcycle gang had indeed taken out a contract to kill Mick Jagger. The Rolling Stones leader was seen as having blamed the gang for the death of Stones’ concertgoer Meredith Hunter at Altamont. “There’s always been a contract on the band,” he stated, noting “two attempts to kill them that I know about. They will some day. They swear they will do it.”