Rock and Metal History, a day like today March 26

Steven Tyler

1948 - Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, was born in Yonkers, New York.

Fran Sheehan

1949 - Fran Sheehan, bassist of Boston, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1965 - The Yardbirds announced that Jeff Beck would take Eric Clapton's place in the group.

James Jonas Iha

1968 - James Jonas Iha, guitarist with Smashing Pumpkins, was born in Chicago, Illinois.

1969 -  Marvin Gaye'sversion of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" was #1 in the U.K.

1975 - Tommy, the movie based on the rock opera by theWho, premiered in London.

1976 -  Duster Bennett, who worked with Fleetwood Mac, B.B. King, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers andAlexis Korner, was killed in a car accident in Warwickshire, England at age 29.

1977 -  Alice Cooper gave a show at the RAS Showground in Sydney, Australia that attracted 40,000, the largest rock concert in that country's history to that point.

- A brand new group consisting of both British and American musicians first appeared on the chart on this date and they would take the world by storm.  Foreigner's first hit song was "Feels Like The First Time".

1983 - INXS debuted on the chart with their first single in the U.S.--"The One Thing".

1988 - Def Leppard achieved their first Top 10 song with "Hysteria".

1994 - Soundgarden debuted on the Album chart at #1 with Superunknown.

2000 -  Santanatopped the U.K. Album chart withSupernatural.

2002 - Randy Castillo, drummer for Lita Ford, Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne's band, died of cancer in Los Angeles at age 51.