1980 – Johnny Borrell
Johnny Borrell guitar, vocals with English indie rock band Razorlight who had the 2006, UK No.1 single ‘America’ and their 2006 UK No.1 self titled album.
1978 – Lemar
Lemar Obika, UK singer, appeared on BBC TV talent show Fame Academy, 2003 UK No.2 single ‘Dance (With You)’.
1975 – Phil A. Jimenez
Phil A. Jimenez, percussion, vocals, from American rock band Wheatus who had the 2001 UK No 2 single ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ which appeared in the movie Loser.
1974 – Andre Dalyrimple
R&B singer Andre Dalyrimple is born in Georgia. Along with his three brothers, he’ll form the group Soul For Real, known for their 1994 hit “Candy Rain.”
1973 – Kelly Price
Kelly Price, seven-time Grammy-nominated American R&B singer and songwriter, formerly on the Def Soul label.
1972 – Jill Scott
American singer-songwriter Jill Scott. Her 2000 debut, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum, and her fifth album, Woman peaked at No.1 on the US album chart.
1972 – Magnus Sveningsson
Magnus Sveningsson, bassist with Swedish rock band The Cardigans who had the 1997 UK No.2 single ‘Lovefool’ which was included in the soundtrack to the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet.
1968 – Mark Yates
Mark Yates, guitarist with, Terrorvision who had the 1999 UK No.2 single ‘Tequila’. Terrorvision were originally known as The Spoilt Bratz.
1966 – Mike Starr
Mike Starr, bass guitarist for Alice in Chains, is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1963 – David Gavurin
David Gavurin with English alternative rock band The Sundays. Their first album, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, was released in 1990 and was a UK Top 5 hit along with the single ‘Here’s Where the Story Ends’.
1962 – Craig Adams
Craig Adams, bassist from the English gothic rock band The Mission who scored the 1988 UK No.12 single ‘Tower Of Strength’. Adams has also worked with The Cult, Spear of Destiny, The Alarm and Theatre of Hate.
1958 – David Roback
American guitarist, songwriter and producer, David Roback best known as the founding member of the duo Mazzy Star best known for the song ‘Fade into You’ which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was the group’s biggest mainstream hit. Roback died from metastatic cancer on 24 February 2020 age 61.
1957 – Graeme Kelling
Graeme Kelling, Scottish musician and the original guitarist with Deacon Blue who had the 1988 UK No.8 single ‘Real Gone Kid’, plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles. Kelling died on 10 June 2004 in Glasgow at the age of 47, after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
1952 – Dave Hill
Dave Hill, guitarist with English rock band Slade who scored 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six No.1’s on the UK Singles Chart becoming the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles.
1952 – Gary Moore
Irish guitarist and singer Gary Moore, who was a member of Skid Row and Thin Lizzy. As a solo artist he had the 1979 UK No.8 single ‘Parisian Walkways’. His 1990 album Still Got the Blues featured contributions from Albert King, Albert Collins, and George Harrison. Moore died on 6 February 2011 while on holiday in Spain.
1951 – Steve Gatlin
Country musician Steve Gatlin of The Gatlin Brothers is born in Olney, Texas.
1950 – Phillip “Pip” Pyle
Rock drummer Phillip “Pip” Pyle (of Gong, Hatfield and the North, and National Health) is born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England.
1948 – Berry Oakley
Berry Oakley, bassist with , The Allman Brothers Band who released the classic album Eat a Peach in 1972 and had the 1973 US No.12 single ‘Ramblin Man’. He was killed in a motorcycle accident 11th November 1972.
1948 – Pick Withers
Pick Withers, drummer, with English rock group Dire Straits who played on their first four albums, which included hit singles ‘Sultans of Swing,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Private Investigations’. Withers also played drums on Bob Dylan’s 1979 album Slow Train Coming.
1942 – Kris Jensen
Kris Jensen, known for the 1962 hit “Torture,” is born Peter Jensen in New Haven, Connecticut.
1941 – Major Lance
Soul singer Major Lance, who had the 1964 US No. 5 & UK No.40 single ‘Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um’). He died of heart failure on 9 March 1994.
1940 – Sharon Sheeley
Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter. Hits include ‘Poor Little Fool’ a US No.1 for Ricky Nelson in 1958 and the 1959 hit for Eddie Cochran ‘Somethin’ Else’. Sheeley became Cochrn’s girlfriend and survived the car crash that killed Cochran in 1960. She died on May 17th 2002 aged 62.
1939 – Hugh Masekela
South African trumpeter and singer Hugh Masekela who had the 1968 US No.1 single ‘Grazing In The Grass’. Masekela has been described as “the father of South African jazz.” Masekela died in Johannesburg on 23 January 2018 from prostate cancer, aged 78.
1939 – Danny Thompson
Danny Thompson, English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist. During his musical career he has played with a variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson and John Martyn as well as Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, Paul Weller, Kate Bush, Rod Stewart and T. Rex.
1938 – Declan Mulligan
Irish-born American rock musician, singer and songwriter Declan Mulligan. He was best known as a guitarist of rock band The Beau Brummels that formed in San Francisco in 1964 and broke into the mainstream with their debut single, ‘Laugh, Laugh’. He died age 83 on 2 November 2021.
1938 – Norris “Norro” Wilson
Country singer-songwriter Norris “Norro” Wilson is born in Scottsville, Kentucky. He died June 8, 2017
1913 – Muddy Waters
American blues musician Muddy Waters, In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band recorded several blues classics, ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’, ‘I’m Ready’ and ‘I Just Want to Make Love to You’. The Rolling Stones named themselves after his 1950 song ‘Rollin’ Stone’, his music influenced Eric Clapton’s career, Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’, is lyrically based on the Muddy Waters hit ‘You Need Love’. Waters died in his sleep from heart failure on 30 April 1983 aged 70.
