Born On This Day In Music, August 22nd

1995
English singer, songwriter Dua Lipa. Her self-titled debut studio album released in 2017 produced seven singles, including the top-ten single” Be the One” and the No.1 single ‘New Rules’.

1978
Jeff Stinco (lead guitarist for Simple Plan) is born Jean-Francois Stinco in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1973
Howie D, Backstreet Boys, (1997 US No.2 single ‘Quit playing Games With My Heart’, 1999 UK No.1 single ‘I Want It That Way’).

1972
Paul Doucette, Matchbox Twenty who rose to international fame with their debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You (1996), which was certified 12× Platinum in the United States and multi-platinum in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

1969
Steve Cradock, guitarist with English rock band Ocean Colour Scene who formed in Moseley, Birmingham in 1989. They scored the 1996 UK No.4 single ‘The Day We Caught The Train’, plus over 12 other Top 40 singles and the 1997 UK No.1 album Marchin’ Already. Also a member of Paul Weller’s Band.

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1967
American musician Layne Staley lead vocalist of Alice in Chains. Staley was also a member of the supergroups Mad Season and Class of ’99. He was found dead from a mixture of heroin and cocaine in his home on 5 April 2002.

1963
James Debarge, Debarge, (1985 UK No.4 single ‘Rhythm Of The Night’).

1963
American singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos who had the 1994 UK No.4 single ‘Cornflake Girl’. Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She was expelled at the age of 11 for “musical insubordination”. Her 1996 hit ‘Professional Widow’ is widely rumoured to be about Courtney Love.

1961
Debbie Peterson, drums, The Bangles, who had the 1986 UK No.2 single with the Prince song, ‘Manic Monday’ and the 1986 US No.1 single ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’.

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1961
English musician, singer-songwriter, Roland Orzabal, from Tears For Fears, who scored the 1985 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’, plus over 12 other UK top 40 singles. Their second album, Songs from the Big Chair, released in 1985, reached No.1 on the US Billboard 200.

1958
Ian Mitchell of the 1970s pop group, Bay City Rollers who had the 1975 UK No.1 single ‘Bye Bye Baby’ plus 11 other UK Top 20 singles’ and the 1976 US No.1 single ‘Saturday Night’.

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1958
Vernon Reid, Living Colour, (1991 UK No.12 single ‘Love Rears It’s Ugly Head’).

1957
Country singer-songwriter Holly Dunn is born in San Antonio, Texas. The 1987 winner of the Country Music Association’s Horizon Award, the singer/songwriter emerges on MTM Records for a short run as a hitmaker, earning membership in the Grand Ole Opry in 1989

1956
Chris Biondo, guitarist, producer with Eva Cassidy. (Only artist to score three posthumous UK No.1 albums, 2001 ‘Songbird’, 2002 ‘Imagine’, 2003 ‘American Tune’. 2001 UK No. 42 single ‘Over The Rainbow’).

1955
Saxophonist and songwriter Alan Wilkinson is born in Ilford, England.

1949
Country musician Sam Neely is born in Cuero, Texas. Known for a string of minor hits in the ’70s, including the cover “I Fought the Law.”

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1948
Guitarist David Marks is born in New Castle, Washington. When he is 7, his family moves to Hawthorne, California across the street from the Wilson family, which forms The Beach Boys. Marks joins the band in 1961, but is replaced two years later by Al Jardine.

1947
American singer Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay, best known for having been a member of Grateful Dead from 1972 until 1979. She had worked as a session singer in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, eventually singing with a group called Southern Comfort. She appeared as a backup singer on at least two No.1 hit songs: ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ by Percy Sledge in 1966 and ‘Suspicious Minds’ by Elvis Presley in 1969. Her vocals were featured on other classic recordings by Boz Scaggs, Duane Allman, Cher, Joe Tex, Neil Diamond and many others.

1946
Mutha Withem, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap who had the 1968 UK No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Young Girl’ as well as the hits ‘Woman, Woman’, ‘Over You’ and ‘Lady Willpower.’

1945
Ron Dante, singer, songwriter, The Archies, (1969 US & UK No.1 single ‘Sugar Sugar’) and The Cufflinks, (1969 UK No.4 single ‘Tracy’).

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1939
Fred Milano, Dion and the Belmonts, (1961 US No.1 & UK No.11 single ‘Runaround Sue’).

1936
American rock singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Dale Hawkins best known for his recording of his swamp-rock classic, ‘Susie Q.’ Hawkins later became a record producer and executive. He died aged 73 on 13 February 2010.

1936
Chuck Brown is born in North Carolina. He would relocate to Washington, DC and pioneer the go-go sound, best heard on his hit “Bustin’ Loose.” Died May 16, 2012.

1917
John Lee Hooker, American Blues singer, guitarist who had the 1951 US million selling album I’m In The Mood, and the 1964 UK hit single ‘Dimples’. Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don’t Look Back (1997), were album chart successes. Hooker died on 21st June 2001.

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