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Born On This Day In Music, August 29th
1993
Liam Payne from English-Irish pop boy band One Direction who formed after finishing third in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010. Scored the 2011 UK No.1 single ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ and the 2013 No.1 ‘One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)’.
1980
David Desrosiers (bassist for Simple Plan) is born in Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada.
1975
Kyle Cook, guitarist, 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.
1971
Alex Griffin, Neds Atomic Dustbin, (1991 UK No.16 single ‘Happy’).
1970
R&B singer Carl Martin (of Shai) is born in Lafayette, Louisiana. Known for the 1992 hit “If I Ever Fall in Love.”
1967
Chris Gorman, drums, Belly, (1993 UK No.32 single ‘Feed The Tree’).
1966
Singer/songwriter Shawn Camp is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Signed to Reprise in the 1990s, he nets hits as a songwriter with George Strait’s “River Of Love,” Garth Brooks’ “Two Pina Coladas” and Josh Turner’s “Would You Go With Me”.
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1963
Jerry Fehily, from Irish rock group Hothouse Flowers who scored the 1988 UK No.11 single ‘Don’t Go’. Their first album, People, released in 1988 became the most successful debut album in Irish history. It reached the No.1 slot in Ireland within a week and eventually reached No.2 in the UK Albums Chart.
1959
Scottish singer-songwriter Eddi Reader from folk and soft rock band, Fairground Attraction who had the 1988 UK No.1 single ‘Perfect’. She scored the 1994 solo UK hit single ‘Patience of Angels’. In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns.
1958
Scottish singer, songwriter and musician Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins. The group released the album Heaven or Las Vegas in late 1990 which became the most commercially successful of their many recordings.
1958
Michael Jackson singer, songwriter, Jackson 5, The Jacksons, and solo. Jackson is recognised as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. The music videos for ‘Beat It’, ‘Billie Jean’, and ‘Thriller’ are credited with breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. His 1982 album Thriller, is the best-selling studio album of all time. Jackson died on 25th June 2009 at the age of 50, after suffering heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills.
1953
Rick Downey, from American hard rock band Blue Oyster Cult who scored the 1976 US No.12 & 1978 UK No.16 single ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’. Blue Oyster Cult have sold over 24 million records worldwide.
1952
Songwriter Don Schlitz is born in Durham, North Carolina. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017, his hits include Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler,” Randy Travis’ “Forever And Ever, Amen,” Keith Whitley’s “When You Say Nothing At All” and Mary Chapin Carpenter’s “I Feel Lucky,” among many others
1947
Vocalist and guitarist David Jenkins is born. After a stint with the ’70s pop band Pablo Cruise, he joins Southern Pacific in 1986, leaving the band in early-1989. He returns during the next decade to Pablo Cruise.
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1945
Chris Copping, from Procol Harum, who had the 1967 UK No.1 & US No.5 single ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’, (one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies) and scored the hits ‘Homburg’, ‘Conquistador’.
1943
Dick Halligan Keyboards, flute, from jazz-rock American music group Blood Sweat & Tears. They scored the 1969 US No.2 single ‘Spinning Wheel’, and the 1969 US No.12 single ‘You’ve Made Me So Very Happy’. They had a US No.1 with their second album Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968.
1927
Jimmy C. Newman is born in High Point, Louisiana. He becomes the rare Cajun artist to achieve commercial success in country music, with more than 10 Top 10 hits from 1954-1966, leading to his entry into the Grand Ole Opry. Died June 21, 2014
1924
American singer and pianist Dinah Washington who had the 1959 US No.8 single ‘What A Diff’rence A Day Makes’, and two successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, ‘Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)’ and ‘A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love). She died on 14 December 1963 at the age of 39.
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