On this day: March 23, 1985

The ink was hardly dry from Billy Joel's first divorce, but that didn't stop him form marrying Christie Brinkley on March 23, 1985.

Joel had met Brinkley in 1982 when he was on vacation and playing a hotel piano in the Caribbean. Brinkley then stared in the music video for Joel's Uptown Girl, which would be his biggest hit of the decade.

Other notable events for March 23:
-Multi-instrumentalist 'Mother' Maybelle Addington joined country music's 'royal' Carter Family on March 23, 1926 by marrying Ezra Carter
-Eddie Cochran's C'mon Everybody entered the UK singles chart on March 23, 1959
-John Lennon's first book, In His Own Write, was published in Britain on March 23, 1964
-It was announced on March 23, 1985 that authorities at Wembley Stadium had refused to provide free facilities for the forthcoming Live Aid concert