BIRTHDAYS
1939: Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople)
1942: Curtis Mayfield
1947: Mickey Finn (T. Rex)
1950: Susan “Suzi” Quatro
1950: Florian Pilkington-Miksa (Curved Air)
1952: Billy Powell (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1965: Mike Gordon (Phish)
1974: Kelly Jones (Stereophonics)
EVENTS
1968: Andy Warhol barely survived after being shot by a deranged woman.
1972: Jethro Tull started a 2-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Thick as a Brick’.
1988: Simon Phillips played a concert / drum clinic at Downtown Convention Centre, Auckland ~ I was there!
1989: Queen scored their 6th UK No.1 album with ‘The Miracle’.
2002: Ozzy Osbourne performed for and met the Queen at the Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace.
2009: Death of the Queen of the Blues, singer Koko Taylor [aged 80].
2016: Death of violinist, Dave Swarbrick, of Fairport Convention [aged 75].
2018: Death of Clarence Fountain, lead singer and founder of The Blind Boys Of Alabama [aged 88].
2022: Death of artist, Ken Kelly [aged 76]. Amongst many others, Ken painted the album covers for Rainbow ‘Rising’, Kiss ‘Destroyer’ & ‘Love Gun’.
Ian Hunter ~ What a Dude, still young at heart! Unbelievably, Ian is 85 years old today! Bowie wrote this one for Mott The Hoople, but Mr. Hunter has penned many gems too, such as “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”, “Cleveland Rocks” and well, all the Mott albums!
