This Week in Music History

March 21, 1963:Up-and-coming singing sensation Barbara Streisand marries a struggling young actor named Elliott Gould.

March 20, 1957: Shelton Lee, aka Spike, is born to jazz musician Bill Lee and school teacher Mary Lee in Atlanta.

March 20, 1982: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts ascend to the top of the U.S. singles charts with ‘I Love Rock and Roll,’ where they will stay for seven weeks before being overtaken by Vangelis’ theme to ‘Chariots of Fire.’

March 20, 1991: Eric Clapton’s 4-year-old son Conor falls to his death from a 53rd-story New York City apartment window. The tragedy will inspire Clapton to write ‘Tears in Heaven,’ which will win three Grammys.

March 19, 1957: Elvis buys Graceland from Mrs. Ruth Brown Moore for $102,500. It’s located coincidentally enough at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tenn., and consists of 23 rooms and 13.7 surrounding acres.

March 19, 1975: The Who release the film ‘Tommy,’ about a young boy who loses his sight, hearing and speech after watching his stepfather murder his father, before he finds salvation in pinball. It’s better than it sounds.

March 19, 1982: Randy Rhodes, the guitar genius on Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Blizzard of Ozz’ and ‘Diary of a Madman,’ dies when the plane he’s in hits Ozzy’s tour bus and crashes into a nearby mansion.

March 19, 1962: Soon after being discovered by talent scout-producer John Hammond, Bob Dylan releases his self-titled debut. It’s so poorly received that the young singer becomes known in the industry as ‘Hammond’s Folly.’

Compiled by AOL