This Day in Music - March 17

Birthdays
1940 - Vito Picone, rocker (Elegants)
1941 - Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
1944 - Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
1944 - John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
1946 - Harold Brown, Long Beach Ca, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
1947 - Ian Gomm, rock guitarist
1948 - Pat Lloyd, rocker
1948 - Fran Byrne, rocker
1951 - Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
1954 - Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1954 - Wally Stocker, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
1955 - Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
1959 - Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
1962 - Clare Grogan, rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
1962 - Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1967 - Van Conner, rocker (Screaming Trees)

Deaths
1995 - Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87

Events
1847 - "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
1978 - Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm