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BIRTHDAYS 1926: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton 1938: McCoy Tyner 1940: David Gates (Bread) 1944: Michael Lang (Concert promoter / producer / manager, best known as the co-creator of Woodstock Music Festival, 1969) 1948: Chester Thompson (Frank Zappa Band / Genesis / Weather Report / Steve Hackett Band / Santana) […]
BIRTHDAYS 1943: Jim Morrison (The Doors) 1947: Gregg Allman 1949: Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant) 1950: Dan Hartman (The Legends / Edgar Winter Group) 1955: Kasim Sulton (Utopia) 1956: Warren Cuccurullo (Frank Zappa Band / Missing Persons / Duran Duran) 1957: Phil Collen (Def Leppard) 1962: Marty Friedman (Megadeth) 1963: Greg […]
BIRTHDAYS 1940: John Lennon 1944: John Entwistle (The Who) 1948: Jackson Browne 1952: Dennis Stratton (Iron Maiden / Lionheart / Praying Mantis) 1952: Sharon Arden / Osbourne 1955: Shona Laing 1970: Polly “PJ” Harvey 1975: Sean Ono Lennon EVENTS 1978: Death of French singer, Jacques Brel [aged 49]. 1993: Nirvana […]
BIRTHDAYS 1949: Chuck & John Panozzo (Twins in Styx) 1957: Alannah Currie (The Thompson Twins) 1960: Robert Wiggins (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five) 1966: Nuno Battencourt (Extreme) 1968: Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden) EVENTS 1969: John Lennon resigned from The Beatles. 1969: Blind Faith started a 2-week run at No.1 on […]
BIRTHDAYS 1936: Kris Kristofferson 1944: Peter Asher (Peter & Gordon / Producer / Head of Apple Records in late ’60s) 1947: Howard Kaylan (The Turtles / The Mothers / Flo & Eddie) 1948: Todd Rundgren Happy 76th Birthday to multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer, Todd Rundgren! His notable production […]
BIRTHDAYS 1933: Yoko Ono 1947: Dennis DeYoung (Styx) 1952: Randy Crawford 1953: Robbie Bachman (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1954: John Travolta 1955: Brian James (The Damned) EVENTS 1969: The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. 1980: Bill Wyman announced that he would be leaving The Rolling Stones […]