Born On This Day In Music, August 30th

1989
Pop vocalist Bebe Rexha is born in Brooklyn, New York. She earns a country hit with a 2017 Florida Georgia Line collaboration, “Meant To Be”.

1986
George Ryan Ross III, lead guitarist, singer, with American rock band Panic! at the Disco who scored the 2008 Australian No.1 and US & UK No.2 album Pretty.Odd.

1974
Pop singer/songwriter Rich Cronin (of LFO) is born in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

1966
Peter Cunnah, D:Ream, (1994 UK No.1 single ‘Things Can Only Get Better’).

1964
Robert Clivilles , producer and DJ with from American group C +C Music Factory who had the 1991 UK No.4 single ‘Things That Make You Go Hmmm…, and the 1991 US No.1 single ‘Gonna Make You Sweat’.

1963
Paul Oakenfold, producer, remixer, DJ. Toured with U2, remixed for Simply Red, M People, New Order, Stone Roses and U2.

1961
Keith McKenzie, The Shamen, (1992 UK No.1 single ‘Ebeneezer Goode’).

1958
Martin Jackson, drums, Magazine, (1978 UK No.41 single ‘Shot By Both Sides’), Swing Out Sister, (1986 UK No.4 single ‘Breakout’).

1954
Ronald Beitle, drummer, Wild Cherry, (1976 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Play That Funky Music’).

1953
Horace Panter, also known as Sir Horace Gentleman, bassist for the British 2 Tone ska band The Specials who had the 1981 UK No.1 single ‘Ghost Town’.

1952
Kenny Andrews, Darts (1978 UK No.2 single ‘Boy From New York City’).

1951
Dana, (Rosemary Brown), 1970 Irish Eurovision Song Contest winner, UK No.1 single ‘All Kinds Of Everything’.

1950
Micky Moody guitar, Juicy Lucy (1970 UK No.14 single ‘Who Do You Love’), Whitesnake, (1987 US No.1 & UK No.9 single ‘Here I Go Again’).

1944
Charles Colbert, from American rock band American Breed who scored the 1967 US No.5 single ‘Bend Me, Shape Me’, (a hit on the British charts for the British group Amen Corner).

1941
John McNally, The Searchers, (1964 UK No.1 single ‘Needles And Pins’, 1964 US No.3 single ‘Love Potion Number Nine’).

1939
John Peel, BBC radio DJ. journalist and TV presenter, born John Robert Parker Ravenscroft. He was the longest running BBC Radio 1 and the most influential British DJ ever. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, and dance music. Peel died in Cuzco, Peru of a heart attack on 25th October 2004 aged 65.

1935
John Phillips, from American folk rock vocal group The Mamas & the Papas who had the 1965 hit ‘California Dreamin”, the 1966 US No.1 single ‘Monday Monday’ and the 1967 hit ‘Dedicated to the One I Love’. Phillips died of heart failure aged 65 on 18th March 2001.

1919
American pioneering female country music singer Ellen Muriel Deason who became known as Kitty Wells. Her 1952 hit ‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels’, made her the first female country singer to top the US country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Wells died on 16 July 2012 age 92.
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