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March 2, 1944 –I was a product of Andy Warhol’s Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that…. Lewis Allan Lou Reed singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist was born (on the wild side.)

March 1, 1969 –While performing with the Doors at The Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, the formerly svelte, now tubby alcoholic Jim Morrison asks the audience Do you wanna see my cock? then exposes himself briefly on the Miami stage. For thus showing why he was known as The Lizard King, Morrison received a sentenceContinue reading “Mr. Mojo Rising indeed”

March 1, 1973 –Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, Dark Side Of The Moon, on this date. The album debuts at an inauspicious #95 on the US Albums chart, but has become the album with the most weeks on the Billboard charts, thanks in large part to a run from 1977-1988 when it neverContinue reading “Us and Them”

March 1, 1968 – The Star Trek episode The Omega Glory aired in this date. In it, the Enterprise comes across the derelict Federation ship Exeter, and the crew discovers that its entire crew has been killed by a plague. NBC announced that Star Trek would be renewed for a third season during the closingContinue reading “The Omega Glory premiered”

March 1, 1981 –NBC-TV aired the made-for-TV film Elvis and the Beauty Queen, starring Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist on this date. The color scheme seen when Elvis is first showing Linda Thompson around Graceland is inaccurate. Linda and Elvis worked together to come up with the red theme. Also, Linda designed the stained glassContinue reading “Elvis and the Beauty Queen premiered”

March comes in like a the Spiny Lumpsucker and goes out like a Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko. The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and called Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first monthContinue reading “The March winds are the morning yawn”

February 29, 1968 –At the Grammy Awards on this date, the Fifth Dimension’s Up, Up and Away won record of the year for 1967, the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category is given for the first time, and Aretha Franklin won it for Respect. (She won the award again each of the next seven years.)Continue reading “Big Award’s night”

February 29, 1584 –Due to the Gregorian Calendar adjustment of two years earlier, much of Europe’s population lived through its first Leap Day on this date. But let’s take a step back – Roman Emperor Julius Caesar took a break from being the dictator of the known world and took a stab at fixing theContinue reading “Leap into the future with confidence and courage.”

February 29, 1988 –The sitcom, Day by Day, starring Douglas Sheehan, Linda Kelsey, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Thora Birch aired on NBC on this date. Christopher Daniel Barnes’ character has a dream in A Very Brady Episode in which he is Chuck Brady, an additional brother to the three famous brothersContinue reading “Day by Day premiered”

February 29, 1980 –The coming-of-age drama, Foxes, directed by Adrian Lyne, in his directorial debut, and starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, and Cherie Currie, opened on this date. Rosanna Arquette, Diane Lane, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kristy McNichol all auditioned and/or tested for the role of Annie which in the endContinue reading “Foxes premiered”