On The Border was released by the Eagles on this day in 1974. The group's third studio album introduced a shift into a more of a Rock mode with the addition of Don Felder to the group and the decision mid-way through the recording to replace Glyn Johns as producer with Bill Szymczyk, who had impressed them with his production on future Eagle Joe Walsh's 1973 album The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get.  Walsh himself would become a member of the Eagles two years later.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on March 22 include...

 

1943 Yardbirds lead singer and Renaissance member Keith Relf is born.

1965 Bob Dylan releases Bringin’ It All Back Home.

1967 The Who make their US concert debut at the Paramount Theater in New York City.

1971 Allman Brothers Band members get busted on drug charges.

1975 The Rolling Stones start recording Black & Blue album.

Ten Years After does its final concert in London.

1978 The Police sign with A&M Records.

1992 Tears for Fears announce break-up.

1994 Edgar Winter Group member and writer of Free Ride Dan Hartman dies at 43 of a brain tumor.

1997 Aerosmith plays Saturday Night Live.
2000 A Kiss concert fan falls to his death from an upper deck of a concert in Oakland, California.

2006 Aerosmith's tour canceled after Steven Tyler undergoes throat surgery.

2010 Joe Bonamassa release Black Rock.

2015 David Crosby clips and slightly injures a jogger while driving his Tesla in southern California.

2017 Boston's Sib Hashian dies at sea at 67 after doing a live set on a cruise ship.

2024 Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, sells a trove of correspondences, memorabilia, personal affects and the original artwork for the Derek and the Dominos Layla and assorted other Love Songs in a Christie's auction that attracts $3.6 million in bids, blowing past the pre-auction estimate of under $500k.