March 27
Rock's most tortured love triangle culminated today in 1979 when Eric Clapton married Patti Boyd, George Harrison's ex-wife, the woman who had inspired both "Something" and "Layla" finally choosing Slowhand after years of pursuit, though their marriage would end in divorce a decade later… The Grateful Dead's chemist-in-chief faced the law today in 1973 when Jerry Garcia was arrested after police found cocaine and LSD in his car, the bust surprising absolutely no one familiar with the band's psychedelic reputation and legendary drug consumption… British new wave lost its most literate street poet on this day in 2000 when Ian Dury died at 57 after battling cancer, ending the career of the Blockheads frontman whose cockney wit and polio-affected body made him punk's most unlikely and beloved working-class hero… We remember jazz's most divine voice Sarah Vaughan on her birthday today in 1934, "Sassy" the vocalist whose...
