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Born On This Day In Music, April 14th
1980 – Win Butler
Win Butler, lead vocalist, songwriter with the Grammy Award-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire who had the 2005 album Funeral, and 2017 US No.1 album Everything Now.
1973 – David Miller
David Miller, tenor, from the multi-national classical crossover vocal group Il Divo. Their 2004 self-titled album, was No.1 in 14 countries around the world.
1969 – Martyn LeNoble
Martyn LeNoble, Dutch bassist and a founding member of American alternative rock Porno for Pyros.
1965 – Carl Hunter
Carl Hunter, of Liverpool-based group The Farm who had the 1990 UK No.4 single ‘All Together Now’.
1964 – Vinnie Moore
UFO guitarist Vinnie Moore is born in New Castle, Delaware.
1952 – Kenny Aaronson
Kenny Aaronson, American bassist. He has recorded or performed with several notable artists such as Bob Dylan, Billy Idol, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, New York Dolls, and Hall and Oates .
1949 – Dennis Bryon
Dennis Bryon from Amen Corner who had the 1969 UK No.1 single ‘If Paradise Is Half As Nice’, plus five other UK Top 40 hits). He also worked with The Bee Gees during the 1970s and 1980s.
1949 – June Millington
June Millington from American all-female band Fanny who were active in the early 1970s. They were one of the first notable rock groups to be made up entirely of women.
1949 – Sonja Kristina
English songwriter, musician Sonja Kristina, who with Curved Air had the 1971 UK No.4 single ‘Back Street Luv’. Kristina starred in the seminal 1960s musical, Hair.
1948 – Larry Ferguson
Larry Ferguson, Hot Chocolate, who had the 1975 US No.3 single ‘You Sexy Thing’ the 1977 UK No.1 single ‘So You Win Again‘ and over 25 other Top 40 hits.
1945 – Ritchie Blackmore
English guitarist and songwriter Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple, who had the 1970 UK No.2 single ‘Black Night‘ and the 1973 US No.4 single ‘Smoke On The Water‘. Deep Purple were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as “the globe’s loudest band” for a 1972 concert at London’s Rainbow Theatre. Blackmore later formed Rainbow who had the 1981 hit single ‘I Surrender’.
1942 – Tony Burrows
British session pop singer Tony Burrows, singer, who with Edison Lighthouse had the 1970 UK No.1 single ‘Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes‘. Burrows holds the record for having four records in the British Top Ten at once, all under different names. Edison Lighthouse ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’, White Plains, ‘My Baby Loves Lovin’, The Pipkins ‘Gimme Dat Ding,’ and the Brotherhood of Man’s ‘United We Stand,’ all of which were hits in both the US and UK.
1932 – Loreta Lynn
Loretta Lynn, country singer, the first woman to be named Country Music Artist Entertainer Of The Year. Since her first No.1 ‘Fist City’, in 1967 she has scored another 15 chart toppers. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography was made into an Academy Award winning film, Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones in 1980. Lynn died in her sleep at her home in Hurricane Mills on 4 October 2022, at the age of 90.
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