March 20
Art met Beatle today in 1969 when John Lennon married Yoko Ono at the British Consulate Office in Gibraltar, beginning the controversial partnership that would produce avant-garde albums and bed-ins for peace while fans blamed her for breaking up the Beatles… Rock's most devastating personal tragedy struck on this date in 1991 when Eric Clapton's four-year-old son Conor fell to his death from the 53rd floor of a New York City apartment, the accident inspiring "Tears in Heaven" while nearly destroying the guitarist with grief… We remember nu-metal's most tormented voice Chester Bennington on his birthday today in 1976, the Linkin Park frontman whose screaming vocals on "In the End" channeled childhood trauma before his suicide in 2017 at 41 ended the career of alternative rock's most anguished vocalist… Country lost its smoothest gambler on this day in 2020 when Kenny Rogers died at 81 from natural causes at his Georgia home, ending ...
