Born On This Day In Music: August 25th

1988
Ray Quinn, English actor and singer, runner-up to Leona Lewis in the third series of ITV talent show The X Factor, (2007 UK No.1 album ‘Doing It My Way’).

1988
Alexandra Burke, R&B singer and winner of the 2008 series of UK television talent show The X Factor. 2009 UK No.1 single ‘Bad Boys’ featuring Flo Rida.

1987
Amy MacDonald, Scottish singer/songwriter. (2008 UK No.1 with her debut album ‘This Is the Life’).

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1985
Diana “Wynter” Gordon, American pop/dance singer-songwriter who had the 2011 word wide hit ‘Dirty Talk’.

1970
Country singer Jo Dee Messina is born in Holliston, Massachusetts.

1969
Luke Scott, from British indie band Babybird, who had the 1996 UK No.3 single ‘You’re Gorgeous’, and the 1996 UK No. 9 album Ugly Beautiful.

1967
Jeff Tweedy, American songwriter, musician and leader of the American alternative rock band Wilco who released the albums Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born, Sky Blue Sky and Wilco (The Album).

1966
Norman Rogers, Public Enemy, (1988 UK No.18 single ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’).

1965
Erik Dahlgren, drummer, with alternative Swedish rock band The Wannadies who had the 1996 UK No. 18 single, ‘You And Me Song’.

1963
Candida Doyle, from English rock band Pulp, who had the 1995 UK No.2 single ‘Common People’. He quit the band in January 1997. Pulp were regarded among the Britpop “big four”, along with Oasis, Blur and Suede.

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1962
Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician Vivian Campbell, who joined Def Leppard in 1992, replacing Steve Clark, who had died the previous year. Campbell had also been a member of Dio and Whitesnake.

1961
Billy Ray Cyrus, US singer who scored the 1992 UK No.3 single ‘Achy Breaky Heart’, and the No.1 US album Some Gave All. In 2019 after Billboard removed American rapper Lil Nas X’s country-rap song ‘Old Town Road’ from their Country chart, Cyrus was featured in the remix which peaked at No.1 on the Billboard chart for a record-breaking nineteen consecutive weeks.

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1956
Matt Aitken, part of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman production team, produced over 10 UK No.1 singles.

1954
Elvis Costello, (Declan McManus), singer, songwriter. Had the 1979 UK No.2 single with The Attractions ‘Olivers Army’ and his 1979 UK No.2 album Armed Forces spent 28 weeks on the chart. Costello has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award, and has worked with Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Lucinda Williams, Kid Rock, and Brian Eno.

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1952
Geoff Downes (keyboard player/songwriter for Asia and Yes) is born Stockport, Cheshire, England.

1951
James Warren, The Korgis, (1980 UK No.5 single ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’).

1951
English singer and songwriter Rob Halford who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He has been involved with several side projects, including Fight, 2wo and Halford.

1950
Willy DeVille, Mink DeVille, (1977 UK No.20 single ‘Spanish Stroll’). Died of pancreatic cancer on 6th Aug 2009.

1949
Gene Simmons bassist and singer with American hard rock band Kiss. Their 1976 US No 11 album Rock and Roll Over spent 26 weeks on the chart and they had the 1987 UK No.4 single ‘Crazy Crazy Nights’. Also known by his stage persona The Demon.

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1948
American drummer and a founding member of The Box Tops, Danny Smythe. With the Box Tops he had major hits on the US chart, such as the 1967 No. 1 hit ‘The Letter’, and the 1968 No. 2 hit ‘Cry Like a Baby’. He died on 6 July 2016 age 67.

1942
Walter Williams, The O’Jays, (1973 US No.1 & UK No.9 single ‘Love Train’).

1941
Christopher Augustine (drummer for Every Mother’s Son) is born in New York. Known for the 1967 hit “Come on Down to My Boat.”

1933
American jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter who has worked with Miles Davis (Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet), and Weather Report who had the 1976 single ‘Birdland’ and the 1977 album Heavy Weather. Shorter has won 10 Grammy Awards and in 2017, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize. Shorter died in Los Angeles, California, on 2 March 2023, at the age of 89.

1918
American Composer, pianist, conductor, Leonard Bernstein. His best-known work is the Broadway musical West Side Story, and he conducted the New York Philharmonic aged 25. Bernstein was the recipient of many honors, including seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, sixteen Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement, and the Kennedy Center Honor. He died on 14th October 1990 age 72.

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