BIRTHDAYS
1947: Donald Thomas “Tom” Scholz (Boston)
1950: Ted McKenna (Sensational Alex Harvey Band / Rory Gallagher Band)
1963: Frederick “Rick” Rubin (Record Producer)
1963: Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam)
1964: Neneh Cherry
1965: Edie Brickell
1966: Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam)
EVENTS
1977: The Sex Pistols signed to A&M Records. The contract lasted for six days.
1984: Ian Gillan quit Black Sabbath.
2000: Chrissie Hynde of Pretenders was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against Gap clothing.
2024: Death of bassist, T. M. Stevens [aged 72]. Over the years, Thomas Michael Stevens was a member of Space Cadets, VAI (‘Sex and Religion’ album and tour), Out of Control, Illegal Aliens, The Boombasstics, Temple of Soul and played for James Brown, Nona Hendryx, Dan Hartman, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Little Steven, Tina Turner, Narada Michael Walden, Taylor Dayne, Stevie Salas, Billy Joel and more.
2024: Death of singer / songwriter /musician, Karl Wallinger [aged 66]. Karl was a member of The Waterboys, before leading his own successful band, World Party. He them went on to produce many film soundtracks.
Happy Birthday to Tom Scholz of Boston ~ he’s 77 today! The guitarist, singer / songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, inventor, engineer, producer was wholly responsible for creating Boston, who had the biggest-selling debut album by any artist at that time (1976). Tom set up the DTS Charitable Foundation in 1987 and has raised millions of dollars for children’s rights, animal protection and for feeding the hungry. This one also goes out to fantastic singer of Boston, Brad Delp, who died a day before Tom’s birthday, on 9th March, 2007.
