As the recent Davy Jones death shows, the artist and celebrities of our past, recent and distant past alike, have no immortality for all their fame, but instead, have lives as fragile as our own and nothing is guaranteed in terms of longevity. That fact is shown also by political blogger Andrew Breitbart's death at age 43 Wednesday night. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/02/us-usa-politics-breitbart-idUSTRE8201AV20120302
Check the information below and see if you can relate any of it to what you were doing in your own life. Time seems to pass very quickly for some of these things.
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"LARP Rewind: March 1. On this day in 2004, Michael Jackson launched a website, mjjsource.com, to celebrate his music and provide updates of his pending court trial for child molestation. On this day in 1985, Help! became the first Beatles song to be used in a television commercial (for Lincoln-Mercury). On this day in 1968, Johnny Cash married June Carter, who he had proposed to during a concert in London, Ontario. The marriage would last until June's death in May 2003; Cash would die four months later. On this day in 1957, the Everly Brothers, Don and Phil, signed with Cadence Records. On this day in 1941, the first commercial fm station, W47NV in Nashville, began broadcasting at 44.7 mHz with a classical music format. In 1947 the station moved to 100.1 and became WSM/fm. It signed off four years later, but in 1968 WSM bought WLWM and made it the new WSM/fm.
"Today, March 1, 2012, Harry Belafonte is 85, Robert Conrad is 77, former Blood Sweat & Tears lead singer Jerry Fisher is 71, Manfred Mann lead singer Mike d'Abo is 68, The Who lead singer Roger Daltrey is 68, The A-Team/Battlestar Galactica co-star Dirk Benedict is 67, country singer Arlene Harden is 67, game show host/Growing Pains co-star Alan Thicke is 65, Dukes Of Hazzard/African Skies co-star Catherine Bach is 58, actor/director Ron Howard is 58, Sweethearts Of The Rodeo singer/guitarist Janis Oliver is 58, Wings/Private Practice co-star Tim Daly is 56, British singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw is 54, Gin Blossoms bassist Bill Leen is 50, Skid Row drummer Rob Affuso is 49, actor John David Cullum is 46, Nickelback guitarist Ryan Peake is 39, actor Mark-Paul Goselaar is 38, r&b singer Sammie Bush is 25, singer-songwriter Ke$ha (Kesha Sebert) is 25, Justin Bieber is 18.
"On March 1, 1975, 37 years ago today, Olivia Newton-John's Have You Never Been Mellow was number one on K-100 (KIQQ), followed by the Ohio Players' Fire and Frankie Valli's My Eyes Adored You. Biggest jumpers were My Boy by Elvis Presley, moving from #21 to #14, and Lovin' You by Minnie Riperton, climbing from #26 to #19. Highest debut was Barry White's What Am I Gonna Do With You at #27. Also debuting were Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John and L-O-V-E by Al Green. "
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