Born On This Day In Music, August 26th

1969 – Adrian Young
Adrian Young, drummer, No Doubt, (1997 UK No.1 single ‘Don’t Speak’, 1997 No.1 US album ‘Tragic Kingdom’).

1969 – Drew Hester
Drummer, percussionist, and record producer Drew Hester. He has played drums and percussion with Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, Beck, Jewel, Daniel Powter, Foo Fighters and Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders.

1966 – Dan Vickrey
Dan Vickrey, guitarist, from American rock band Counting Crows, who had the 1994 UK hit single ‘Mr Jones’, and the 1996 US No.1 album Recovering The Satellites. They received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song ‘Accidentally in Love’, which was included in the film Shrek 2.

1966 – Shirley Manson
Shirley Manson is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she forms the band Angelfish. Their video for “Suffocate Me” gets the attention of the Americans Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, who convince her to join their new band, Garbage.

1965 – Annie Holland
Annie Holland, Elastica, (1995 UK No.13 single ‘Waking Up’).

1960 – Branford Marsalis
Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis is born in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, to a family of musicians. He played sax and miscellaneous percussion on Sting’s 1985 solo debut, The Dream of the Blue Turtles.

1957 – John O’Neill
John O’Neill, The Undertones (1980 UK No.9 single ‘My Perfect Cousin’).

1954 – Michael Chetwood
Michael Chetwood, Keyboards, T’Pau, who had the 1987 UK No.1 single ‘China In Your Hand’ and the 1987 US & UK No.4 single ‘Heart And Soul’, (which was initially a flop in the UK). T’Pau took their name from a Vulcan elder of the same name in the sci-fi series Star Trek.

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1952 – Billy Rush
Billy Rush, from the Jersey Shore group Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes who had the 1978 album Hearts Of Stone and have released over ten other albums.

1952 – Jack Holder
American guitarist Jack Holder for American Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas. The band reached the height of its fame in the 1970s and scored a hit with LaVern Baker’s 1957 ‘Jim Dandy (To The Rescue)’, which reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. He died from cancer on January 13, 2015, at the age of 62.

1949 – Bob Cowsill
Bob Cowsill, from American singing group The Cowsills, who had the 1967 US No.2 single ‘The Rain, The Park & Other Things’, and the 1969 US No.2 single the theme from ‘Hair’. TV’s Partridge Family was based on The Cowsills family.

1949 – Leon Redbone
Singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor Leon Redbone. He rose to fame in the ’70s folk scene and was known for Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley music. He later performed in several TV commercials, including Budweiser beer, in which he lay on a surfboard singing “This Bud’s for You.” Redbone died on 30 May 2019 age 69.

1948 – Valerie Simpson
Valerie Simpson, from husband-and-wife songwriting-production team Ashford and Simpson, who had the 1985 UK No. 3 single ‘Solid’. They wrote hits such as: ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’, ‘You’re All I Need To Get By’, ‘Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing’, and ‘Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)’.

1944 – Alan Parker
English guitarist Alan Parker. He had a successful career as session guitarist starting in the late 1960s, and played with David Bowie, Blue Mink, Walker Brothers, CCS and Serge Gainsbourg. Parker is also known to have owned Jimi Hendrix’s Epiphone acoustic guitar, which was given to him by Hendrix in March 1970.

1944 – Maureen “Moe” Tucker
Maureen “Moe” Tucker (drummer for The Velvet Underground) is born in Levittown, New York. Tucker’s style of playing was unconventional. She played standing up rather than seated (for easier access to the bass drum), using a simplified drum kit of tom toms, a snare drum and an upturned bass drum, playing with mallets rather than drumsticks. She rarely used cymbals.

1942 – Vic Dana
Singer Vic Dana is born in Buffalo, New York. Known for ’60s hits like “Little Altar Boy,” “I Will,” and a popular cover of “Red Roses for a Blue Lady.”

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1941 – Chris Curtis
Chris Curtis, drums, The Searchers, (1964 UK No.1 single ‘Needles And Pins’1964 US No.3 single ‘Love Potion Number Nine’). Died on 28th Feb 2005 at the age of 63 after a long illness.

1940 – Nik Turner
English musician Nik Turner, saxophones and flute with Hawkwind, who had the 1972 UK No.3 single ‘Silver Machine’. The band had a run of twenty-two of their albums charting in the UK from 1971 to 1993.

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1938 – Jet Black
English drummer Jet Black (Brian John Duffy), one of the founding members of The Stranglers, and who is now one of the oldest working rock drummers. They had major mainstream success with their 1982 single ‘Golden Brown’. Before forming The Stranglers, Black was a successful businessman up until the mid-1970s, owning a fleet of ice cream vans. He died on 6 December 2022 aged 84.

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