Born On August 23rd In Music

1986
SkyBluone (Skyler Austen Gordy), one half of LMFAO who had the 2011 world wide hits ‘Party Rock Anthem’ and ‘Sexy And I Know It’.

1981
Natalie Horler, singer, Cascada, German dance group. 2007 hit ‘Everytime We Touch’ won them a World Music Award in 2007. 2009 UK No.1 single ‘Evacuate the Dancefloor’.

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1979
Richard Neville with English boy band Five who had the 1998 UK No.2 single ‘Everybody Get Up’ and the 1999 UK No.1 single ‘Keep On Movin’.

1978
Julian Casablancas, guitarist, singer, songwriter from American rock band The Strokes who had the 2001 UK No.14 single ‘Last Nite’ and the 2001 UK No.2 album Is This It.

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1974
Shifty Shellshock (real name Seth Brooks Binzer) front man of Crazy Town. 2001 US No.1 single ‘Butterfly’.

1967
Cedella Marley, Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers, (1988 UK No.22 single ‘Tomorrow People’).

1962
English musician and singer-songwriter Shaun Ryder, best known as the lead singer of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape. He was the runner-up of the tenth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Ryder’s struggle with drugs led to the break-up of Happy Mondays in 1992. The film 24 Hour Party People featured the (semi-fictional) story of Shaun Ryder’s youth and the life of Happy Mondays whilst signed with Factory Records in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

1961
Dean DeLeo, American guitarist with Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show and Army of Anyone. His younger brother, bass guitarist Robert DeLeo, was also a member of the band.

1959
Edwyn Collins, singer, songwriter, producer, Orange Juice, (1983 UK No.8 single ‘Rip It Up’), solo, (1995 UK No.4 single ‘A Girl Like You’).

1954
Mark Avsec, keyboardist, songwriter, Donnie Iris & the Cruisers, Wild Cherry, (1976 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Play That Funky Music’).

1953
Bobby G, singer with British pop group Bucks Fizz who had the UK hits ‘Making Your Mind Up’ (1981), ‘The Land of Make Believe’ (1981) and ‘My Camera Never Lies’ (1982) and became one of the top-selling groups of the 1980s.

1951
Jimi Jamison, Survivor, (1982 US & UK No.1 single ‘Eye Of The Tiger’) and as the voice and co-writer of the theme song for Baywatch. Jamison died at the age of 63 on August 31, 2014 in Memphis, Tennessee. from a heart attack.

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1951
Rock musician Mark Hudson (of The Hudson Brothers) is born in Portland, Oregon. He also co-wrote several Aerosmith songs, including the 1993 hit “Livin’ On The Edge.”

1949
Rick Springfield is born Richard Lewis Springthorpe in South Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia. Before becoming a pop star, he plays Dr. Noah Drake on the soap opera General Hospital. (1981 US No.1 & UK No.43 single ‘Jessie’s Girl’).

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1947
Linda Thompson, English folk rock singer in collaboration with her then husband and fellow British folk rock musician, guitarist Richard Thompson, and later as a solo artist.

1946
English drummer Keith Moon. The Who With The Who he scored the 1965 UK No.2 single ‘My Generation’ plus over 20 other Top 40 hits, 1967 US No.9 single ‘I Can See For Miles’ and rock opera albums ‘Tommy’ & ‘Quadrophenia’. Moon was voted the second-greatest drummer in history by a Rolling Stone readers’ poll. Moon died on 7th September 1978 after taking 32 clomethiazole tablets.

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1946
Rock singer Jim Sohns (of The Shadows Of Knight) is born in Chicago, Illinois. The band is known for their popular 1966 cover of Them’s song “Gloria.”

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1942
Roger Greenaway, singer, songwriter, member of David & Jonathan and the Kestrels. Best known for his songwriting collaborations with Roger Cook: ‘My Baby Loves Lovin’, (White Plains); ‘Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress’, ‘Gasoline Alley Bred’, (The Hollies); ‘You’ve Got Your Troubles’, (The Fortunes); ‘Melting Pot, Good Morning Freedom’ (Blue Mink); and ‘Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart’ (Gene Pitney).

1940
Vicki Brown, English pop, and rock singer. She is best known for her membership of both The Vernons Girls and The Breakaways, and as one of the UK’s most enduring backing vocalists. She appeared on many hits including The Jimi Hendrix Experience version of ‘Hey Joe’, Petula Clark’s hit, ‘Downtown’, The Who’s Tommy – film soundtrack, George Harrison’s Cloud Nine. She was the first wife of singer and musician Joe Brown and mother of the singer Sam Brown. She died of breast cancer on 16 June 1991 aged 50.

1936
R&B singer Rudy Lewis (of The Drifters) is born Charles Rudolph Harrell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died May 20, 1964.

1917
Country/Western swing musician Tex Williams is born Sollie Paul Williams in Ramsey, Illinois. Known for the 1947 novelty song “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette).” Died October 11, 1985.

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