BIRTHDAYS
1928: Serge Gainsbourg
1939: Marvin Gaye
1942: Claude Bridges a.k.a. Leon Russell
1943: Larry Coryell
1946: Kurt Winter (The Guess Who)
1947: Emmylou Harris
1952: Leon Wilkeson (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1962: Tony Franklin (The Firm / Blue Murder / Whitesnake / Roy Harper / Kenny Wayne Shepherd & many more)
EVENTS
1964: The Beatles had their 4th UK No.1 single with “Can’t Buy Me Love”, including advanced sales of over 2.1 million.
1965: The Who made their first radio appearance, on the BBC’s ‘Joe Loss Pop Show’.
1967: Steve Winwood quit Spencer Davis Group to form Traffic.
1967: The Beatles completed recording their album, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
1977: Fleetwood Mac went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Rumours’.
1983: Pink Floyd scored their third UK No.1 album with ‘The Final Cut’.
1987: Death of drummer, Buddy Rich [aged 69].
2003: Death of singer, Edwin Starr [aged 61].
2021: Death of bassist / singer / songwriter, Morris “B.B.” Dickerson of War [aged 71].
2023: Death of entrepreneur / record company executive, Seymour Stein [aged 80]. He founded Sire Records and signed many acts, including Talking Heads, Ramones, Pretenders, Madonna, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Ministry, The Undertones, Echo & The Bunnymen. Stein is credited with coming up with the term “new wave” and became the vice president of Warner Bros. Records.
Marvin Gaye would have been 85 today! But tragically, he was shot dead by his father in 1984, the day before his 45th birthday. Thankfully, he left a lot of beautiful songs for the world to hear.
