March 11

clipart.com,106.9 The Fox

1970 – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released their first album Déjà Vu.

1972 – Neil Young topped the album charts for the first of two weeks with his Harvest.

1991 – Pearl Jam begin recording their debut album, Ten, in Seattle.

1996 –  The surviving members of the Beatles turned down $225 million to do a reunion tour.

1997 – Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

2000 – KISS began their first “Farewell Tour.”

2015 – Phil Collins was named an honorary Texan by the Texas state legislature for donating his collection of Alamo and Texas Revolution-related artifacts to the Alamo.

2016 – Keith Emerson, the keyboard player in Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passes at the age 71.