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BIRTHDAYS 1948: John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) EVENTS 1969: The Plastic Ono Band recorded “Give Peace a Chance”, during a “bed-in” at a Canadian hotel. 1976: The Who played a concert in Charlton which achieved “the loudest band in the world” category in the Guinness Book of Records. 1977: The BBC […]
BIRTHDAYS 1955: Nicky “Topper” Headon (The Clash) 1964: Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave / The Nightwatchman / Prophets of Rage / Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band) 1968: Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) 1971: Patrick Dalheimer (Live) EVENTS 1961: The Beatles went to No.1 on the US singles chart […]
BIRTHDAYS 1945: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) 1949: Francis Rossi (Status Quo) 1953: Danny Elfman 1955: Mike Porcaro (Toto) 1959: Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds) 1967: Noel Gallagher (Oasis) EVENTS 1965: Bob Dylan had his second No.1 on the U.K. album charts with ‘Bringing It All Back Home’. 1967: Jimi Hendrix, Pink […]
BIRTHDAYS 1910: T-Bone Walker 1917: Papa John Creech 1944: Gladys Knight 1945: John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 1947: Leland Sklar (The Section / Jackson Browne / James Taylor / Carole King / Warren Zevon / Phil Collins / Toto & thousands of other sessions…) 1955: John McGeoch (Magazine) 1962: Roland Gift […]
BIRTHDAYS 1943: Priscilla White a.k.a. Cilla Black 1947: Peter Knight (Steeleye Span) 1957: Eddie Harsch (The Black Crowes) 1957: Susan Dallion a.k.a. Siouxsie Sioux 1958: Neil Finn (Split Enz / Crowded House / Fleetwood Mac) 1966: Sean Kinney (Alice in Chains) EVENTS 2001: Tool went to No.1 on the US album […]
BIRTHDAYS 1919: Ruben Gonzalez (Buena Vista Social Club) 1926: Miles Davis 1943: Levon Helm (The Band) 1944: Verden Allen (Mott The Hoople) 1946: Mick Ronson 1948: Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) Happy 72nd Birthday, Stevie! The amazing Fleetwood Mac songstress is adored by millions. 1959: Wayne Hussey (Dead or Alive / […]
BIRTHDAYS 1921: Hal David 1942: Brian Davison (The Nice / Refugee) 1943: John “Poli” Palmer (Family) 1948: Klaus Meine (Scorpions) 1950: Robert Steinhardt (Kansas) 1955: John Grimaldi (Argent) 1958: Paul Weller (The Jam / Style Council) EVENTS 1965: Death of John “Sonny Boy” Williamson [aged 65]. 1974: Rick Wakeman’s ‘Journey […]
BIRTHDAYS 1938: Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong) 1941: Robert Zimmerman a.k.a. Bob Dylan 1946: Steve Upton (Wishbone Ash) 1947: Albert “Alan” Bouchard (Blue Oyster Cult) 1969: Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) EVENTS 1963: Death of blues guitarist / singer / songwriter, Elmore James [aged 45]. 1969: Bob Dylan scored his fourth […]
BIRTHDAYS 1934: Robert Moog (Inventor of the synthesiser) 1944: Raymond Fulwood (Parliament) 1953: Rick Fenn (10cc) 1974: Jewel Kilcher a.k.a. Jewel 1974: Richard Jones (Stereophonics) 1975: K.T. Tunstall EVENTS 1970: ‘Let It Be’ by The Beatles began a 3-week run at the top of the U.K. album charts. 1975: Led […]
BIRTHDAYS 1939: Ian Underwood (Frank Zappa’s Mothers) 1942: Calvin Simon (Funkadelic) 1950: Bernie Taupin 1955: Jerry Dammers (The Specials) Happy 65th Birthday to Jerry Dammers, who was keyboard player and principal songwriter in The Specials, from 1977–84. Jerry founded 2 Tone Records, wrote the song “Free Nelson Mandela” and helped […]
