18 March 1982: Driving home from a basketball game in Philadelphia, soul singer Teddy Pendergrass crashed his Rolls Royce severely injuring his spinal cord. His brakes had failed causing him to cross into oncoming traffic and crashed into a tree. He returned to the stage in 1984.
18 March 1989: A radio station in California arranged to have all its Cat records destroyed by having a steamroller run over them in protest of his support of Ayatollah Khomeni. Stock, Aitken and Waterman had three singles in the UK Top 5: Jason Donovan’s “Too many Broken Hearts”, Bananarama’s “Help” and Donna Summer’s “This Time I Know Its For Real”
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