BIRTHDAYS
1920: Charlie Parker
1942: Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground)
1953: Rick Downey (Blue Oyster Cult)
1958: Michael Jackson
1959: Eddi Reader (Fairground Attraction)
1960: Tony MacAlpine (Planet X / Steve Vai Band / Vinnie Moore Band, etc.)
1963: Elizabeth Fraser (This Mortal Coil / The Cocteau Twins)
1967: Chris Gorman (Belly)
1973: Vincent Cavanagh (Anathema)
EVENTS
1966: The Beatles played their final concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco.
1976: Death of blues man, Jimmy Reed [aged 50].
1987: Def Leppard scored their first UK No.1 album with ‘Hysteria’.
2021: Death of reggae / dub singer / songwriter / producer Lee “Scratch” Perry [aged 85].
2021: Death of drummer, Ron Bushy, of Iron Butterfly [aged 79].
Happy 61st Birthday to Elizabeth Fraser, of The Cocteau Twins! The Scottish singer has a such a beautiful, pure soprano voice, which she uses as an emotion powered instrument. Prior to The Cocteau Twins, Elizabeth was with This Mortal Coil and delivered her crystalline version of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” in 1983. (She had a brief relationship with Jeff Buckley in 1994).
