March 4, 1978 

The #3 “Sometimes When We Touch” by Dan Hill is the only song in the Top 5 not written by a member of The Bee Gees. Andy Gibb’s “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water” is #1, with “Stayin’ Alive” at #2, “Night Fever” at #5 and Samantha Sang’s “Emotion,” written by Robin and Barry Gibb, at #4.

By the end of 1978, there are 19 #1 songs, and six of them are written by at least one Gibb brother, including the top two: “Night Fever” (eight weeks at #1) and “Shadow Dancing” by Andy Gibb (seven weeks at #1). The following year, three Gibb co-writes reached the top spot.

March 5, 1982 

John Belushi of The Blues Brothers, 33, dies of a drug overdose in his bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Belushi had been injected with a speedball, a mixture of cocaine and heroin.

March 6, 2000

Eric Clapton is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, making him the first person inducted three times. He is also a member of The Yardbirds and Cream.

March 7, 1985 

The song “We are the World” was released as a single, soon achieving massive chart success all around the world. The song, written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, is recorded for charity to help battle famine in Africa. The supergroup USA for Africa brought together for the recording features a stunning list of big names in music – everyone from Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan to Ray Charles, Cyndi Lauper and Dionne Warwick.

March 8, 1994 

Two seminal albums from the ’90s are released: Soundgarden’s Superunknown and Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral. They enter the albums chart at #1 and #2, respectively.

March 9, 2020 

An appellate court upholds a 2016 ruling that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” did not infringe on the Spirit song “Taurus,” bringing an end to the lawsuit that was filed in 2014. The court also overturns the “inverse ratio rule,” which sets a lower standard for infringement based on how much access a defendant had to a song.

March 10, 1988 

Andy Gibb, whose three older brothers are the Bee Gees, dies of heart failure at age 30. Gibb had three #1 hits in the late ’70s, including “I Just Want To Be Your Everything.”

1984 Deep Purple reunited with the Mark II lineup of the band, which includes guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and lead singer Ian Gillan. The band has been dormant since 1976, and this lineup last played together in 1973. They take a break in 1989 and Blackmore leaves in 1993, but the core of the group stays intact into the 2020s.